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Apr 17, 2023 1:36 PM CST
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I am looking to purchase this particular daylily. I haven't been able to locate it. I have tried quite a few Daylily sellers…
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Apr 20, 2023 1:50 PM CST
Name: Larry
Enterprise, Al. 36330 (Zone 8b)
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Sorry, I don't grow it and it appears no one on this site has it.
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Apr 21, 2023 8:21 AM CST
Name: Maurice
Grey Highlands, Ontario (Zone 5a)
When I want to find a supplier of a particular named daylily I do Google searches using the name of the daylily in quotation marks and either the word daylily or the name of the hybridizer.
In this example, the Google search terms would be "Unforgettable Archie" daylily
or "Unforgettable Archie" Dick.
Capitals are not needed for the search.
The name of the hybridizer is from the daylily database at https://daylilydatabase.org/se...
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Apr 21, 2023 10:20 AM CST
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Thank you all for your ideas. I have already done it all. A local grower in my State who hybridizes her own informed me that Dick the original hybridizer has passed away. He was from Minnesota, his name was Richard Prochaska. He was member of the North Star Lily Society. He grew Asiatic Lilies and Daylilies. I will try to touch base with the society in hopes they might know where I could possibly get it. Wish me luck.
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Apr 21, 2023 10:22 AM CST
Name: Nan
southeast Georgia (Zone 8b)
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Good luck! Maybe someone there knew him; you never know. If you do find it, let us know!
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Apr 21, 2023 10:53 AM CST
Name: Sue
Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b)
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Gardener247 said: Thank you all for your ideas. I have already done it all. A local grower in my State who hybridizes her own informed me that Dick the original hybridizer has passed away. He was from Minnesota, his name was Richard Prochaska. He was member of the North Star Lily Society. He grew Asiatic Lilies and Daylilies. I will try to touch base with the society in hopes they might know where I could possibly get it. Wish me luck.


The hybridizer (Billy) Dick in the AHS hybridizer list is listed as being in Georgia (Peachland Daylily Garden). There are some hybridizers listed as Prochaska in Wisconsin but no Richard (and in any case I can't see AHS registering a cultivar with a short form of the person's first name). Assuming this is the right Billy Dick, and daylilies are mentioned in the condolences, unfortunately he passed away in 2021:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obit...
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Apr 21, 2023 11:01 AM CST
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Sooby, Thank you for that information. I'll try their website. I'm so happy that I came to this page.
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Apr 21, 2023 11:18 AM CST
Name: Larry
Enterprise, Al. 36330 (Zone 8b)
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sooby said: (and in any case I can't see AHS registering a cultivar with a short form of the person's first name). Assuming this is the right Billy Dick, and daylilies are mentioned in the condolences, unfortunately he passed away in 2021:

I thought that would be very odd for them to register a daylily with a person's first name, especially a short version of it.
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