Teresa, you start the best topics. :thumbsup:
I really got into Daylilies 9 years ago. I have been a plant collector for 30 years and used to do a lot of trading. My fist Daylily was an unknown yellow that I still grow. It came to me in a plant trade. The next Daylily I got , also from a plant trade, and my first named, was Crimson pirate. When CP settled in and started showing me what it could do, I fell in love with it's spidery velvet blooms and decided I needed more Daylilies, so started trading more of my perennials for Daylilies. I ended up having 169 named cultivars all from trades before I had made my first Daylily purchase. Some of the other first ones I received are Amplified, Always Afternoon,Catherine Woodbery and Merle Kent. The first Daylily I ever bought was Chicago Blackout. I still grow all of these except for Amplified, which I lost to one real harsh, dry cold winter. It was growing in a pot.
