floota said:
One I've been pleased about was when I was A & H Chair and our committee nominated WEBSTERS PINK WONDER. It had been difficult to get it registered after Dick Webster died. Jamie Gossard helped Dicks grandson Rob Cobb finally get it registered. Anyway, once it was on the ballot, it finished at the very top of the HM list that year, getting the most votes. It subsequently went on to win the SSM some years later.
Hi Julie
@Floota, Great work by Jamie and you and the A&H committee getting 'Webster's Pink Wonder' registered!!๐๐ป It's a fave in our garden, as in so many others. The Stout was well deserved.
Usually the older ones which are added to the HM ballot are already registered ones which have maintained popularity over many years, correct? They have some special qualities that gardeners appreciate.
'Itsy Bitsy Spider' (Bishop-H. 1990), was one I voted for. Awards: AM 2017; HM 2014; ESB 2015 . Pretty impressive for an "overlooked" cultivar. It has a charming garden presence with its butterfly-like small lemon flowers poised in a flock on tall scapes above a well-mannered ruff of shorter foliage. It looks like a flock because it has that high scape density quality that
@Seedfork has us discussing in another thread.
Also it has another great quality that's been praised: It is content to grow in the same spot for many years while continuing to perform its show year after year. It is one of the few daylilies which has thereby earned duplicate spots in the perennial bed.
I was happy to see it on the ballot, and to vote for it.
Pat
