DogsNDaylilies said: ...but I would argue that there isn't a set way of determining fragrance. Granted, I'm a newbie, but have you, yourself, read somewhere that specifies how fragrance is to be determined? If not, what's to say that hybridizers don't 'stick their noses way in' the flower or only count it as fragrant if it is overwhelmingly fragrant when they walk by?
"..there isn't a set way of determining fragrance." That was exactly my point.
What is fragrant to you, to my neighbor, or to a hybridizer in England may not be fragrant the person who is filling out the form.
Or, you may have the person who smells some level of fragrance, however small, on every single daylily in their garden, thinks that is being fragrant, so marks every form as that daylily being fragrant. You are looking for fragrance, you see that fragrance has been marked off, you buy the plant only to find out that compared to your other fragrant daylilies it has very little scent, if any.
Dave - I did not think about people doing searches in the Daylily Database when thinking this information should be put in the Comments section. It is a shame that the comments do not show up in searches in some way. It would be nice if the person searching could check a box to include comments in search or something like that. Not changing the registration information and having this info collected from ATP members in it's own section sounds like the best way to go.
Becky - I understand more what you all are trying to do now. Like consolidated detailed grower's reports for specific traits. This may take years to build up in the database to be of any real value for what you are trying to do. What I usually tell people new into daylilies is not to buy anything you have not seen growing near you. I usually say within 100 miles up here where I live. Evaluate plants to buy with your own eyes. Talk to the people growing them. Find out how they increase, how they did when there was drought, or flood, or whatever the gardening challenges are in your area. If they hybridize, have they used it as a parent. I still buy daylilies that way after all these years. Very rarely do I buy one I have not seen with my own eyes. Only if I have an established relationship with a hybridizer or grower and know I can rely on their judgement on what will do well for me. If you see that daylily "XYZ" is growing well in two different places near you, but the best price for it is in California on the Lily Auction - buy it there - but you have actually seen it growing so you know the color - or smelled it - you can see the plant habit, you have asked about it's rust resistance.
