Barrie is located 90 kilometers north of Toronto, Canada and we are in zone 5. You can see from my winter garden shots that the area is in a snow belt that blows in off Georgian Bay. The one saving grace is the normal 3 feet of snow cover for the daylilies.

Clarke Farms is what I blissfully call my small backyard daylily hobby garden. Because of space restrictions, each year as more and more seedlings need to be kept for evaluation, it seems to leave less room for registered daylilies.

Over the past two summers my hybridizing program has evolved into attempting to break up the eyed zones of some of my favourite daylilies into erratic avante garde patterns with a variety of colours that splash the sepals and the petals with complex designs. Unfortunately, the pollen parents that seem to break pattern the best, H. His Highness, H. Egyptian Queen and H. Heavenly Flight do not set pod well and so far have carried this nasty trait over to most of my more interesting seedlings. It seems that the next stage to further the excitement is to cross pattern with pattern with my seedlings and hope for new unique changes in display and colour.

Like all small hybridizers, I'm trying to decide which 700 of my 3,800 available seeds to germinate. It's always a battle between seeds resulting from the crosses of my own seedlings or crosses from those new $150.00 introductions that I obtained over the season.

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