We started with a large order from Wilds in 1987 including HAPPY BEGINNINGS, GEORGE CALEB, ANNIE WELCH, CUP RACE, WILD HEART, TINA RENAE, MATEUS, TROPIC TANGERINE, CATHEDRAL, SUMMER SPLENDOR, SILVER CIRCUS, FRANS HALS, and ROYAL GARNET.
These were carefully chosen from the el cheapos in the wonderful Wilds' color catalog.
We then planted them in almost pure sand where the Oklahoma sand plums shared the meager water and fertilizer we provided. By luck we had some nice ones which we grew for about twenty years, others languished and then left but MATEUS, SILVER CIRCUS, and FRANS HALS survived until the great heat wave/drought of 2011 (50 days straight of 100+ temperatures and no rain while we spent the summer here) took all of our daylily collection and then the ice storm of the century dropped all of our 60 foot tall, dead from the drought, cottonwoods across our garden like pick-up sticks. We can't even walk into what used to be our OK garden, but now we summer and garden at 8,000 feet and are starting all over.
Apologizing for the length and winding down. We grow a couple from our old collection here. BUTTERED POPCORN, PRAIRIE BLUE EYES, and ED MURRAY do great here along with 50 or so newer ones. We will have planted 80 more this year and plan on not going much larger.
... Maybe.
