A simple yet clear guide to cultivate daylilies. I'd jump right into it if I were to have the space for it, but alas.
One 'small problem' though. Since there are so many registered cultivars, in god's name how do you even begin to pick a name that isn't already taken?
Second, can seedlings produce exactly the same cultivar as one that is a few generations back? I'll try to explain:
P1: Plain red daylilie with no ruffles x Plain white daylilie with ruffles
F1: assorted seedlings with different flowers.
P2: cross between two flowers of the F1 generation
F2: again assorted seedlings with different flowers, yet one has flowers exactly as one of the P1 parent plants (plain red or ruffled white) --> does THIS seedling automaticly adopt the cultivar name of the parent plant it resembles or not?
Because it must be really difficult to identify a new cultivar because you'd have to read through all those thousands of cultivar descriptions to identify that a combination of those features doesn't already exist in your new flowers.