Well Sandy, you need to check out the Lily Auction (I think it's lilyauction.com)! You can select by price range, and they also have the Store where you can just purchase without bidding. The Lily Auction is where you can get beautiful daylilies at much better prices, and you can bid on seeds by cross too! Some of our Daylilies Forum members are sellers on the Lily Auction, and it's nice to know who you're dealing with. Right now I'm just finishing up bidding/purchasing some seeds of crosses involving toothy daylilies, plants which I really couldn't afford... and I'm going to start planting my seeds sometime next week.
Tom, there are three types of daylily foliage: Evergreen (EV), Semi-Evergreen (SEV) and Dormant (DOR). The evergreens don't usually do well in the northern states, although there are some that people have year after year and rave about. And the dormants are meant for the more northern states, although I also grow some here in hot ole' Bakersfield. Their foliage dies back to the ground over the winter and then in spring the new foliage comes peeping up. And the ones that the hybridizers seem to be striving for now are the semi-evergreens because they seem to do pretty well everywhere.
And then to complicate matters, there are two types of daylilies: Diploids and Tetraploids. Most of the beautiful loopy spiders are usually diploids, but the ones with the incredible edges are the tets -- and they're not compatible with each other. And since I'm now hybridizing, I have to make sure I'm purchasing tets all the time now. But the American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) has their Registration Database on their website, so you just zip over there and search on the name, and it will tell you everything you need to know about that daylily -- except for the brand new introductions, and you have to look on the hybridizer's website for those because they won't post them until the following year.
Sorry to get off on my daylily tangent here in the irises forum, but for people living in Florida I think daylilies are a perfect solution.
Edit: Here's another website, for Bill Maryott -- some of you may recognize his name, as he was an iris hybridizer until around 2000 when he switched over to daylilies. His is the hybridizer of the iris THAT'S ALL FOLKS (his last one that Joe Ghio introduced), and he is known as just about the most generous daylily hybridizer around. Over the summer he has specials where you can get his weekly special daylily (ALWAYS a fantastic one!) if you order so much, plus he sends tons of bonus plants. My first order with him a couple of years ago was for four or five daylilies, and he sent even more fantastic bonus plants costing more than I'd ordered! And a bunch of them will bloom later in the summer, too -- we don't know how he does it! (Can you tell I'm enthused about Bill Maryott?)
https://daylilygarden.net/cgi-...
