Background history:
"Mary's Gold" is a dormant tetraploid introduced in 1984 by Harold McDonell from Fayetteville, Georgia. Harold hybidized daylilies until 1995 when he switch to hybridizing hostas. For more information about Harold McDonell, check out this Hosta Online Journal article:
http://americanhostasociety.or...
This cultivar can be found in the ATP Plant Database:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Mary's Gold')
According to the ATP database, this is a midseason bloomer. This cultivar won several AHS awards including: Award of Merit: 1991. Honorable Mention: 1988, LAA: 2005, PC: 2001. It has a rust susceptibility rating of 2.9.
It is particularlly pollen fertile with 11 registered children currently:
http://garden.org/plants/paren...
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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Mary's Gold')
