I can't believe that I've been gardening for over 50 years and am just now becoming excited about daylilies. One of the reasons is because of my new daylily form thread above. The other is that I found a daylily seedling in my garden about four years ago and decided to let it grow to see what it might look like. I was rewarded with this:
It is diploid, vigorous, hardy, three-branched, with a bud count of 26. It's form has a crispate tendency, and the sepals have a white picotee edge. It will appear in the AHS daylily database in 2014. I'd like to begin a hybridizing program to give it a more defined crispate form, produce a larger flower, and carry the picotee through to the petals as well.
The problem is, I don't know where to start. Can anyone recommend a hybridizer who is known as a good mentor for newbies? Any help would be greatly appreciated.