Terry - YOU and Ashton are NOT the strangest, but you are certainly up there at the top of the list for the most interesting! I love the idea of growing a heritage daylily bed! That is so cool! Oh my gosh ... if I had the land ....
I would love to see a photo of your Hemerocallis Dumortieri bloom. (Please!) That is a neat story that your family brought them to Oklahoma.
I wonder if some of those species could be converted like they do with dip to tet? I wonder how expensive that would be if they could? I bet you are not the only one trying to cross them either. I bet there are "skeletons" in some of the well-known hybridizers closets (errr ... fields)!