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The Perfect Plant Most Gardeners Won't Grow

It's beautiful--a soft deep peachy orange-yellow. It blooms from late June into September with numerous flowers. It's a perfect height for most gardens: 12 to 16 inches. It can handle drought, winter salt spray, dry soils, wet soils, city pollution and car exhaust. That's the Stella de Oro daylily, first hybridized in 1975 by Walter Jablonski.

But most good gardeners shun it. Why? Because it's TOO EASY to grow. If the plant grows well in gas stations, supermarket parking lots, abandoned lots, and business centers,  good gardeners aren't showing any skill by having it. Anyone can grow it.

Which makes us think. If hybridizers and DNA specialists do create perfect plants--ones that bloom and last all year round without disease, they may not be so popular with gardeners. Do you want the same plants everyone sees at their gas stations?

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