$600 for a daylily ?!

[Dazed_Lily]

I just happened to wander to the Lily Auction last night and could not believe it as I watched an auction end selling 1 daylily fan for $600. The really weird thing was that when I looked up the hybridizer's site(not the person doing the selling on the auction), they were selling it for $175 which was the starting bid by the seller. What in the world are people thinking ? Here's the pic: OK big woo, it looks blue, but so do a few others that aren't so expensive. It's called In Cahoots:
(If the buyer is reading this I will concede now that you must be far wiser than I). ;)

[Ann B.]

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[vicki]

Just imagine all the plants you could have for that $600.00. Probably all the plants on my 'want' list! Although it is very beautiful. They must have more money than they know what to do with it! LOL!

[Rebecca]

The blue coloring is more from the type of film used than anything else. A slide film was used, Ektachrome, from what I recall from another discussion about this cultivar. I feel for the person who patd that much money for it, becasue they are really going to be disappointed when it blooms for them.

I do know that the hybridizer is sold out of them and thie buyer may be very well aware of the color being off; but I still cannot see paying that much for a daylily, no matter how many fans it was!

I played a bit with the image and have it closer to what it actually looks like (going by Gunda's discription in her catalog). It still isn't right as it does have a bluish cast around the eyezone area, I just don't know how to bring it out. I do wish Gunda would get a digital camera and quit messing around with film!

Rebecca