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An aside: Jim was surprised that Ken Hixson didn't know Hemerocallis
fulva. Ken lives in the same area I do, and it occurs to me that we rarely
see this plant in flower, although the fragrant yellow Hemerocallis
lilioasphodelus (is that a wrong name now?) does well. I have read that
many daylilies fail to flower in areas with cool summers, especially cool
nights. They are not the basic garden plants here in northwestern North
America that they are in the Midwest and East; however, we are well
endowed (or infested, depending on your opinion) with their usual
companions, hostas and tall bearded irises (where gardeners can constantly
divide, spray, slug-bait, and keep all other vegetation at arm's length
from the latter, which seem to me as fussy as hybrid tea roses).

Jane McGary
Northwestern Oregon