Great intro Juli! The AHS was still publishing the little booklets when I first got started in daylilies. Oscie's The Art of Hybridizing has been read many times. I noticed Michael has Joanne Norton's booklet Some Basic Hemerocallis Genetics on his website, another very interesting read. The other two booklets were The Elusive Blue Daylily with articles by Michael Kasha and Dr. Joseph C. Halinar and an assorment of articles titled A "How-to" Book Harvesting, Potting and Germinating Hemerocallis Seeds. Been awhile since I've read these two.
I've always admired images of Buttercream, Ann yours is one of the best. I'm not certain why your images are sideways but I've noticed when I am doing the upload and it shows my image folder the images are sometimes sideways. So far I've managed to fix the problem by down sizing my image to around 150k before trying to upload, the resized images all appear upright. Must be a glitch with the uploading program.
I grew Ram for a number of years then finally moved it to the sales bed to make room for something new. Also here for a number of years was Oscie's near white Candor. Candor is from Tet. Gentle Shepard, it's a very hardy semi-evergreen.
Candor
