Background history:
'Starman's Quest' is a dormant diploid introduced in 1989 by Clayton Burkey. He owned and did his hybridizing at "Hickory Hill Gardens" in Loretto, Pennslyvania. See his website (which was last updated in 2009):
http://www.lchr.org/a/37/ia/ He passed away on November 14, 2015. You can read his obituary here:
http://www.tribdem.com/obituar...
For more information about Clayton Burkey, check out Char's hybridizer article here on ATP:
The thread "ATP Series: The Daylilies of Clayton Burkey" in
Daylilies forum
Starman's Quest is an Unusual Form - Crispate mid-season bloomer. It has earned the following AHS awards: Award of Merit: 2004, RWM: 2011, DCS: 2014, and Honorable Mention: 2001. It is both pod and pollen fertile with 80 registered children:
http://garden.org/plants/paren...
This plant can be found in the ATP Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Starman's Quest') .
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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Starman's Quest')
