My grandparents owned a cottage in western PA that backed up to a daylily farm. So my first experience with DL was in the 60's. Since then, that property has been inserted via my parents and is now owned by my sisters and myself. The original daylily farm was split up, and a portion of it was purchased in the 80's.
Those daylilies have been growing wild and self hybridized get for decades. In fact, they do very well in the shade of the Wild cherry trees and other brush that has sprung up.
My first daylilies were transplants to WI from PA. When I dug them up, I had no clue about color or form, since it was October when I did so.
These are older unnamed cultivars or hybrids of. Man, are they robust! They just grow and grow! Some are beautiful, some Are simple, most are just nice daylilies. In fact I brought one home with me last week and transplanted it (yellow and orange) that was blooming in a corner by itself - haven't a clue if it is just a late, or reblooming.
One of the first registered daylilies I purchased, and cringed at the $40 I spent at the time, was Primal Scream 7 years ago. Amazing daylily, that outdid itself this year ( and it's always been good) I even have a pretty seedling fro it, and the way the seedling glows with its orangish red color, it easy to see PS as the pod parent! ( don't know who the daddy is, I was just playing with dabbing!) ~Jan
