On Russell Daylily Catalog

Canary Bird Song

Tetraploid Canary Bird Song is a soft canary yellow with a blended pattern eye zone and a bi-colored picotee edge. Six years ago Larry Grace and I were at Pleasant Valley Daylily Farms in Dayton Oh and noticed several diploids, TK1 and TK2, that were intriguing. During discussion with Tom Polston, he said they were Carpenter seedlings purchased by Bob Faulkner from Jack Carpenter. Bob had bought a dozen or so Carpenter seedlings and three survived proving to be northern hardy. These two daylilies at Tom's were two of the three daylilies that survived in Bob garden. Subsequently, Bob had then given the diploids to Tom for his diploid program. After more discussion, I purchased the daylilies from Tom. Since my interest was in patterned Tets., I later sent the daylilies to Larry Grace to convert to tetraploid. After several yearly attempts to convert by Larry Grace, TK2 was converted. Originally I didn't think about introducing the Tet. conversion. But I revisited those thoughts at Jamie Gossard's persistent encouragement. So I recently spoke with Jack Carpenter and asked him about myself introducing the daylily and he said that was fine with him. He was to be listed as the hybridizer of record. Canary Bird Song is rare example of a type of registration where the Tet. conversion is being registered instead of the Diploid. I don't know of another example.
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