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Daylily: I Gotta Be Me

I picked this hottie for what should be obvious reasons. I mean really... this plant has scapes that make oak trees look fragile! I guess I shouldn't be surprised, based on heritage... but man, what could have prepared me for THIS?! In the photo showing height:  That's a double fan I put in the display garden the previous Fall - it's actually 2 scapes up, and to their right, you can see 2 rebloom scapes coming up.  Pretty tremendous performance, 'eh?

VERY clear yellow/orange blooms are as saturated as can be, and punctuated fiercely with a deep maroon eye and edge. Not a "big" flower (reminiscent of its father, the award-winning "Vitamin C"), but makes QUITE the statement in form nonetheless. With such vivid color, there's NO loss due to flower size... and frankly, it doesn't look so unkempt "the day after" either (as much larger flowers need constant dead-heading to prevent them from wrapping unopened blooms). SO... here ya have a massively gorgeous specimen that will scream your neighbors into exile, and with VERY little work or worry about it being "independent"!!! ... or should I say, "slightly different"? ;-)

Gary Larson is retired now, but was surely a fantastically funny guy... as creator of the "Far Side" cartoon. Being "into the environment" as I am, I was a BIG fan! One frame he did (and kills me to this day) was of a positively MASSIVE flock of penguins viewed from above... and one in the middle was jumping high while flapping his wings, and singing "I gotta be me! I just gotta be me!". What a HOOT!!!!! As a direct vestige of that cartoon... every time I head out into the seedling beds for the purpose of evaluating, I pause and look from afar... for that one out there in the beds, who SCREAMS "I gotta be me!". I found it.

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