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Dec 26, 2013 11:50 AM CST
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Name: Evan
Pioneer Valley south, MA, USA (Zone 6a)
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Just curious about what our databases most prolific parent is? Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Titan's Glory') has 95 kids!
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Dec 28, 2013 4:23 PM CST
Name: Lynn
Oregon City, OR (Zone 8b)
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Wow. That is a lot of kids.
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Dec 28, 2013 5:06 PM CST
Name: Char
Vermont (Zone 4b)
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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Ed Brown') has 424 registered kids....
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Dec 28, 2013 5:14 PM CST
Name: Lynn
Oregon City, OR (Zone 8b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages I helped plan and beta test the plant database. I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Plant Database Moderator
Forum moderator I helped beta test the first seed swap Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Plant and/or Seed Trader Garden Ideas: Master Level
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Jan 12, 2014 11:08 PM CST
Name: Tina
Where the desert meets the sea (Zone 9b)
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yeah those daylilies are a promiscuous bunch Whistling ... Ida's Magic is listed as 429 kids, and like her pal Ed Brown, is a frilly-edged baby-maker. There are so many daylilies that have at least 150 offspring that is seems downright strange to come across a cultivar that has few to no offspring. I think it is due, in large part, to the ease of hybridizing and registering daylilies. Having tried to cross fuchsia at one point (impossible!), I think I'd faint if I found any that had more than a handful of child plants....

So, its neat to hear about some of the top progenitors of other flowering plants, too ... 95 for iris sounds pretty impressive. Thumbs up
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of old; seek what those of old sought. — Basho

Daylilies that thrive? click here! Thumbs up
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