Congratulations Nancy! Beautiful intros!
I've really enjoyed this thread! I'm only hybridizing for myself, and have never intended on introducing a daylily, even if I get a good one, but I do plan on registering a few. My first one will be named after my Mom, another after one of my grandmother's, and another after my best friend because she has begged me to do so.
After that, I'll see what happens. I'm going to make sure it's a perfect (in my eyes!) flower and plant though before going through the process.
I agree with everyone here who has mentioned seedlings in the parentage. It really is a fantastic idea to register the seedlings that are being used extensively, and I hadn't thought of that before. I have bought only one seedling, and the parents are unknown. It's an amazing flower, and the price was right, and it is so totally different from anything else I grow, so I had to have it. I just wish that the person who originally grew it would register it. I was told that it was too expensive to do that, even though I know it's not. Well, not for me, and I believe that this person has introduced daylilies before, so I'm thinking that introducing them could be more expensive? I may offer to pay for the registration myself because I plan on using it a lot with my hybridizing, and I'd really prefer to have a name on it, other than the garden name that it came with. Maybe this would be a waste of money, since the parents aren't known, but at least this would be a starting point for lineage? Any thoughts on that?
