Larry - Peace on Earth has closed. I don't think they sell any longer. I ordered a few cultivars from them last year right before they stopped selling daylilies. I believe they also downsized and are now retired from the business.
Larry and Suga - My gosh! Y'all are so helpful and generous. Honestly, I am only looking for 2-3 different cultivars of miniatures .... "just to try" for very cheap. If I can't find them cheap, then I won't get them. My budget can only stretch so far. Someone else here on the forum has also offered to send me a few cultivars (not minis). Now I need to get started on my last raised bed (or maybe not). I have two more existing raised beds in the backyard that I am going to be moving the older daylilies out (to the front yard) and putting the new ones in. There has been some extremely generous folks here that have shared some of their cultivars with me because they needed to divide some of theirs or because they knew I was looking for certain cultivars and offered to share a double fan of their plant with me. They sent me rust resistant cultivars that I want to use in my hybridizing project. I can't thank them enough!!! They know who they are! I got some really good rust resistant ratings on some of them, so I hope to one day have a garden with very few, if any, rusty foliage daylilies. And I hope I can hybridize some nice seedlings to name and register. Some of you may not know, but my plan is to name and registered some seedlings after loved ones and then gift fans of the plant to them or share with family in memory of a loved one. But my first priority was to get the rust resistant cultivars to use for my hybridizing.
My second priority is to get a very nice seedling to name after my sis, Janet. She is battling cancer and it looks like she is winning the battle for now. (I am hesitant to say "beat" the cancer, because her type of cancer has the probability of coming back, down the road.) But she went for her PET SCAN today and they said it looked great. She doesn't know yet if the cancer is completely gone at this time, but she felt sure if not yet, then very soon! So that is GREAT news! I can't imagine losing her. She is my baby sister and really the only extended family member I feel I have left. (Our parents are deceased.) We have 2 brothers, but we are estranged from both (and I don't think that will ever change). So I really want to gift my sister with a rust resistant daylily named after her. It will probably make her cry ... but in a good way.
I want to say that I really, really, really appreciate all those here who have helped me in my quest to obtain rust resistant cultivars!
Without all the generous folks here, my quest would probably take a few more years longer due to my annual gardening budget. Truly, I've never met a nicer group of gardeners as all of you! I wish I could give each of you a hug of thanks! And I hope to share back your way and to pass it forward in the future. Y'all have blessed me and I hope someday someone will feel blessed by me for sharing like many of you did!
Anyway .... long winded.
Larry - I would love to share cultivars with you in the future! We are both on the same mission searching for and hybridizing rust resistant daylilies. I like that! A team effort.
Donna - What I am looking for is rust resistant minis. Just a couple cultivars. I just want to try them and see if I like them. I had never even considered smaller blooms, but maybe I should. The thread about minis peaked my interest.
Arlene - Hmmmm .... that is very interesting your experience with Mary Ethel Anderson. I correspond with Glen (Australia) and he raved about it, but read his post here:
The thread "Daylily of the Day: Mary Ethel Anderson" in
Plants of the Day forum
I still want to try it to see if I don't have better results like Glen did. It sounds like a good southern mini.
