Not every goal has to be as complex as creating a new form. You can move daylilies forward by creating new colors, new color combinations, new bud counts and scape heights, new foliage (variegated in different ways anyone? I love the red socks on some foliage), quadruple edges, or whatever strikes your fancy. The purpose of goals is just to create something that does not now exist. Some of those goals make take 30 years, while others may take 6!!
But do be on the lookout for anything "different" in your seedling beds. Sometimes I think people growing in small spaces have more time to do this, Cindy. I would find it nearly impossible to notice what the BACK of petals look like if I were growing 10,000 seeds every year.
This is a photo of Margo's FLIGHT OF ORCHIDS taken in Atlanta during the national. Floota took a photo on the same day that is in the database...... because look at what was on one of the petals!!!! A tooth!!! So I couldn't wait to ask Margo how often she sees that on this particular cultivar. I've seen these random teeth on other cultivars....some have edges. Things like this makes my imagination go wild. Could we some day see a daylily with teeth all over the petal surface???
