Hybridizing Daylilies

Hybridizing for hardy tet UFs and spiders at Gryphon Gardens

About half of our hybridizing efforts go into crossing hardy, northern cultivars with the most exotic southern UFs and spiders. Among the most used northern material are daylilies introduced by Bob Schwarz, Melanie Mason, Curt Hanson, Jamie Gossard, and from further south, the hardy cultivars of Richard Webster. The most promising seedlings of these crosses are shown below, roughly in the order of their possible introduction.

‘Frog’s Eye X ‘Split Infinitive	‘Red Suspenders’ X ‘Web Browser’.	‘Tuxedo Junction’ X (‘Wind in the Rigging’ x ‘Gerda Brooker’)	‘Istanbul Magic’ X ‘ Astral Voyager’
‘Astral Voyager’ X ‘Skinny Dipping’.	(‘Twist of Lemon’ x ‘On Silken Thread’) X ‘Freewheeling’	‘Astral Voyageur’ X (‘John Karl Seager’ x ‘Wings on High’)	‘On Silken Thread’ X ‘Primal Scream’
‘Bali Watercolor’ X (‘Red Suspenders’ x ‘Royal Celebration’)	‘Frog’s Eye’ X (‘John Karl Seager’x ‘Wings on High’)	‘Heavenly Masquerade X ‘Istanbul Magic’	‘Frog’s Eye’ X (‘John Karl Seager’ x ‘Wings on High’)

Read my article
‘Hybridizing for Hardy Spiders and Unusual Forms in the North”, AHS Region 2 Newsletter Fall 2005-Winter 2006.
http://ahsregion2.org/newsletters/news_2005fa.pdf - see pages 11-18