Well, Jim, maybe you've taught me something: I always thought the name Stella de Oro was uncouth Italian! At 10:25 AM 1/23/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Oh, Jenn! You ain't seen nothin' yet! Just wait till spring comes back to >Nebraska. > >At 02:59 PM 1/23/2004 +0000, Jennifer wrote: >>......... >>Perhaps this sojourn in Nebraska will make me more fond of yellow, since I >>haven't been inundated with Stella d'Oros! >>......... > >The daylily, Hemerocallis 'Stella De Oro' (NOT "Stella d'Oro"!!!), was bred >in northern Indiana by an old Polish farmer named Walter Jablonski. Walter >probably didn't know Spanish grammar from a hole in the ground, hence the >name. Think of it as "Spanish a la Hoosier." Poor Walter never even >realized any significant income from STELLA, which was not patented. > >And it is ubiquitous around here too! Everywhere except Florida, where it >does not do as well. It apparently needs some cooling in winter to stay >healthy. I understand why landscapers love it, but Geez! I'm sick of >seeing that plant everywhere I look! > >Jim Shields >in central Indiana, not far from the birthplace of STELLA DE ORO > > >************************************************* >Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. >P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ >Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA >Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >