TippyToe said:I know names of varieties that I didn't mess up with tagging are correct, the gal I got them from bought directly from hybridizers or sellers (her tags were listed with name, hybridizer, year and if they won any awards) so I will check the links to see if any are forbidden for reselling without permission.
You mentioned messing up the tags. What happened?
marked Set the St??
There is a registered variety, 'Set The Style', which resembles this image in color only, and even then only approximately.
Celebration Shore?
To me, this tag reads 'Celestial Shore', but the picture doesn't resemble the pictures found online for that variety. Purples tend to photograph red, but the flower also looks quite a bit different.
I wouldn't be overly concerned regarding patents at a local garden club plant sale. No one really cares, other than your club secretary. The topic certainly makes for an interesting discussion, and an opportunity to learn about the vagaries of the patent system, but that's about it.
The real-world issue is one of correct naming. Many of the plants are mislabeled, some names appear to have been made up. (usually referred to as 'garden names')
Unless you've personally grown and flowered a daylily, you don't really have any way of knowing if it's the correct variety, and you shouldn't put a name on it. Identification is particularly difficult in the Pacific Northwest, where daylilies seldom resemble their pictures taken elsewhere, let alone the hybridizer's (AHS) images. In that respect, the plant database here is much more useful. Acquisition of such a large number of plants through a friend-of-a-friend more or less breaks the 'chain of evidence', so to speak, and nothing appears to be reliable. Enough labeling errors happen when simply moving plants around your own garden, but if someone's digging 100 plants to give away, and they're in the process of moving, there's no telling what could happen.
You probably have a few plants which will be identifiable by comparison with online pictures and descriptions. Those should be labeled with their names. For the rest of them, my recommendation would be to label them according to what you've seen.
Daylily, 5" flower, burnt orange, gold throat, 36" tall
Daylily, 6" flower, pink with ruffles and green throat, 28" tall
Daylily, large yellow, spidery/star shape, 32" tall
Pictures on the sales table are always helpful. Use your own pictures for the unidentified plants. For the daylilies which you feel are correctly named, find some images online. Concerning the copyright issues involving the use of online pictures, refer to the first paragraph concerning patents.
Above all, relax, have fun, and may your club coffers be filled to overflowing.
