Aww, that is a special story Juli, I will have to tell my Leslie.
The story goes that Pat & Grace were visiting our daylily club one year and during Pat's slide show, he had one with a huge dark eyed & edged daylily seedling and I blurted out half jokingly that if he needed a name for it, my name was available, ha ha, everyone laughed. About a year later, he contacted me that he did want to name it after me and sent me the registration papers to sign. I was so surprised, I didn't even remember saying that at the meeting! (My name is now in the database
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Pat's image of H. 'Sue Brown'
and my friend Keith Miner took a picture of it too.
The next year he wrote me a nice letter to apologize that he couldn't release that daylily after all as in the subsequent years it consistently bloomed too low in the foliage, and he has such a high criteria for his intros, he just couldn't release it so he had to compost it.
He did make many crosses with it though so I still see my name in the parentage of many of his dark eyed daylilies, it's weird LOL! So I wrote him back that I was OK with it, these things happen and I said that maybe someday if I breed something as pretty I could name it after my daughter and granddaughter who have much prettier names than just boring ol' Sue Brown.
I told him their names and he agreed that they were pretty names for blooms and asked if he could use those names in future releases.
Here's Floyd Cove website, you have to scroll down to 'Leslie Renee' to read his description, I don't know why he didn't write the same about Natalie Antoinette being my granddaughter but it's a gorgeous big pink.
