"Iris Cohen" wrote in message
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These are some remarkable beauties and many will be sold out within the
next
48 hours and the $200 prices do not deter the diehard daylily fanatics.

$200 for a daylily? Vey is mir. What are they made of?
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Any new cultivar of any new plant variety is pricy. New hybrids of
daylilies are no exception. The serious hybridizer, seller, grower will buy
a cutting edge daylily for its genes that produce a new color, new eye
pattern, maximum bud counts and branching. They want to use in their own
crosses or increase it to sell while the price is still high.

Also there are always the elite gardeners that want the first of any
cultivar. Have you checked the price of a new, non tissue cultured Hosta,
or a new non tissue cultured Iris? Or even any new non tissue cultured
perennial? Oh heck, have you checked the licensing price the garden center
must pay to be able to grow and sell The Wave petunia? Those $200 daylilies
are priced that way because there are only a hand full of that particular
cultivar in the whole world. Not making excuses for the prissiness, but
explaining why there is a market for those high priced lovelies.

Wil