There are times that I wish that we lived someplace where rust would winter kill.... But then that would wipe out any possibility of hiking or long dog walks all year round, which means that I would be even heavier than I am now!
My big concern is not for any neighbors (almost nobody around here grows daylilies, and there are hills and a lot of distance between my garden and the nearest other daylilies here), or for my own garden (which now has mostly resistant (to one degree or another) cultivars), but the big What If. By which I mean, What If, by some miracle, I get some beautiful tet polymerous (or other desirable) daylily which simply
has to be introduced to the daylily world?
With some level of rust present in the garden, how can one sell (even if I were to jump through the hoops and rigamarole and whatnot to get the proper business license and nursery certificates and all of that)? It's not like spraying is going to KILL any rust here... And I do not want to use chemical sprays, period (though I use cutting and detergent sprays, and am going to try Serenade).
(And for that matter, IS it even legal to sell plants without a nursery license, and can you get one without "them" (TPTB) mandating a regular routine of chemical spraying?
)
I hate rust with a passion. I truly, truly, do. Not only is it a blight on our gardens, it's a blight on my hybridizing dreams.
