Do any members of this forum know if anyone has created a hybrid plant from a daylily and a plant outside the Hemerocallis genus? I am thinking about trying to do this.

If I understand, your talking about, say, crossing a daylily to a delphinium to get a blue daylily?

I don't recall hearing of anyone crossing a daylily to anything else, but I have wondered about it. If we could get delphinium blue, impatient pinks, pansy purple, etc... It would certainly change the daylily as we know it.

Would this be actual cross breeding, or more like genetic splicing?

This topic would be interesting to pursue, I'm thinking?

Kinda like crossing a lion and a tiger huh?

I posted this question on the AHS Daylily Robin, as I remember reading or hearing that it could not be done. The consensus is that the cross can sometimes sucessfully be done between plants of the same GENUS, but not from one FAMILY to another. Also, between genuses, the offspring would, like a mule, be sterile. So, if you are sucessful in making that cross work, you will be breaking several laws, and we cannot bail you out. Again.
Merry Christmas,
David

But it would be a nifty feat. To get a true blue daylily, like this beeee-YEW--tifull one of Fred's imaginative composition?