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When people ask what my hybridizing goals are, I usually hesitate because is sounds like they are all over the map. When I think about the plants that I hybridize with and the results I might get, it all seems very rational to me. Yet verbalizing these thoughts to other people comes off sounding like I'm not very focused! I breed almost exclusively with tetraploids, regardless of color, form, or size. I'm not a devotee of any particular color, shape, or size - I like clear colors and breed with those that perform well for me and have the traits that good daylilies should have.

I was born and raised in Michigan and grew up with parents and grandparents who were gardeners. In fact, my early gardening skills were learned at the end of my grandmother's cane. I studied horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, and after graduating worked there as a gardener for 12 years. One of my tasks was to recreate a daylily garden honoring geneticist Dr. Arlow Stout - one of the pioneer daylily hybridizers. Dr. Stout worked at the New York Botanical Garden for 48 years and introduced about 100 daylilies. Like many daylily breeders of his time, Dr. Stout used species daylilies as the building blocks for his program. By developing reds, pinks, purples, and eyezones, he was able to break away from the yellow and orange colors common to that era.

With my partner David Beckett, I currently operate a small gardening business in central North Carolina with emphasis on design and maintenance for residential properties. I hope that you'll find some interesting daylilies among my hybrids. Several named cultivars are available now, with others being introduced in spring of 2005. Hopefully, I'll be able to have yearly introductions each year after that. Feel free to email me with questions or comments.

--Greg

Breeding Lines

BRIDGETON BROCADE	DELICATE BALANCE
FLYING CARPET	MISS SALLY
SAHIB	SOMETHING WONDERFUL