Rita,
You know I love when you post these. Grace Like Rain is gorgeous. When you get enough increase, I'd like to trade you or whatever it takes to get a start on Philistine Champion. It is a beauty. I love Rocks Cry Out, too. They are all very very pretty, but those are my picks.
kay

Grace Like Rain has always been my favorite of yours, but Philistine Champion is a stunner and so is Reagan Kate.

Sharon

I can't believe you have 40 Korths now. You must REALLY like his daylilies. My favorite of these are Instant Celebration and Philistine Champion. I can't wait for my Purify My Heart to start - maybe by the end of the week.

Debra

Beautiful! My favorites of this group would be Philistine Champion and Instant Celebration. Love those bold eyes.
Michelle

Everyone- I have a tendency to keep buying intros once I find a hybridizer I really like. So I love Korth, Westbourne and Emmerich. I actually have more Westbournes than Korths even. Next in numbers here are the Emmerich intros.

That said, no matter how much I am drawn to a hybridizers work in general, I don't absolutely love everything they ever created. With Korth I ordered the entine 2007 collection and then the 2009 collection. I figgured it out and it would have cost me the same to buy the ones I really wanted indivually as it would to get everything. So I got everything. Some of them I would not miss if they were not here. But most are favorites in the garden here.

Kay- I went and counted the fans on PHILISTINE CHAMPION. It has 7 fans, I started with two in spring of 2008. Korths are not gangbusters in the quick increase department but more like slow and steady. This is the first year I don't have annuals in between the daylilies up there in that mainly Korth bed. The first year that it looks full by itself. So depending on what happens maybe in the fall but I doubt it. Most likely will only be dividing there in the very early spring. But I will remember you next spring.

Wait until you have an abundance. I love that one, and it isn't easy to find. You know I will do the same for you if you have anything you like. I also buy hybridizers I like. And I too don't like everything they release. I'm not sure which ones I like best, but I like Emmerich, Trimmer, Salter, Maryott, and others.
kay

The thing that REALLY upset me was when Phil Korth just stopped selling anything but a very few of his own intros and of course the current years stuff. So he just discontinued all these lovelies I have in my garden. They are just about IMPOSSIBLE to get. Yes, he still sells ARNOLDS DAUGHTER and PURIFY MY HEART but those are are only ones of 2007 unless I am wrong. The rest of those 2007 intros I will be posting as they bloom, all gone.

Also, I know some people divide as soon as there are enough fans that you could possible hack off afew. I don't. I wait until I have a decent clump of something. Unless I have to move it, then I am much more likely to hack off some fans.

Right now I plan to divide the oldest Korths and my older Mason and Culver intros very early next spring. For sure at least then. You never know, I might do some this fall.

Funny, I've never collected by hybridizer - but then, I didn't start with individual hybridizer's plants, I just bought willy-nilly and went from there. Now that I'm in the new place, I still tend to be very picky about blooms, and only buy things that really appeal to me. So I might see a few from one place, a couple from another, etc. Korth has some nice ones, ditto Emmerich, Trimmer, and many others. I just can't bring myself to buy a whole collection. I guess I'll continue buying a little bit here, a little bit there. I sure enjoy seeing your plants, though, newyorkrita!

I'd buy 'Grace Like Rain' just for the name, since it's one of my favorite worship songs. But out of this group of plants, I really like the look of 'Instant Celebration.'

Laurel

The collecting by hybridizer only came about because I really, really, liked what certain people introduced. When I started in daylilies I just bought a pretty face and I had nooooo idea who hybridized what I bought. But after I started getting more edjucated in what I liked and wanted in my garden, I soon realized that certain hybridizers just had intros that truely appealed to me. So I would keep going back to those hybridizers and adding more of their introductions.

You sure have some beauties blooming now.LOve that RUBY SHADOWS, its so bright and prety. my favorites of them are SHOT GUN WEDDING,SHINNING LIKE THE SUN,and PHILISTINE CHAMPION.They are just gorgeous.

JEAN