Daylily hybridizing program this Saturday
Ryan Whisney, of Council Bluffs, will be the speaker at the Central Iowa daylily Society meeting this Saturday. Whisney began hybridizing daylilies about 15 years ago. Before that he had grown flowers of many kinds with his parents and grandparents on the family farm, but it's when he moved to Omaha to work for the Henry Doorly Zoo that he discovered daylilies. When he saw a line of daylilies that were slated to be torn up and thrown away, he noticed on the top were a couple small seed pods. Taking them and doing some research on how to start them, he put them in the fridge in a damp ...