Cat said: LA scares me a little for that reason. I did buy from 2 people that sell on LA. One belongs to and is well known on the Region 2 Robin. The other sells on LA and she has her own website and daylily garden she also sells from. I am not sure if she belongs to AHS, I am sure she does. They are both in my region and I hope I did my homework. I tried to check out everything I bought.
I will say that the lily auction is one of the safer places to buy from. Usually if there is a mistake and you get the wrong plant it is an honest mistake. Mike Longo (auction owner) expects sellers (and buyers) to abide by the rules (and there are a lot of rules for sellers if you read them). If there is ever a problem he will do everything he can to help correct it if you cannot work it out with the seller/buyer first. If you don't abide by the rules he will block you or ban you from the auction in a heartbeat. That is one reason if he cannot verify you through the initial registration info or if you have a public email (Hotmail, yahoo, etc) he will ask you for proof of who you are like a driver's license or a copy of a bill.
Mike also had rules in place that if you are selling a daylily with a name it has to registered with the AHS and if it is not registered it has to be listed in the seedling section. Just like "Best Edge" will always be listed in the seedling section when it is sold on the auction because it is not registered, however, everyone refers to it by "Best Edge". If you look it up in the parentage on the AHS it is listed as " Kaskel sdlg, aka Best Edge"
