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all,” Dinunzio says, referring to the _ masses of tall, orange flowers that cluster along the highways. “They’re almost like specimen lilies. They get beautiful, beautiful big clumps. The flowers are so unusual compared to what you’re used to seeing.”
All four daylilies Dinunzio entered in last year’s National Capital Flower Show took blue ribbons.
Dinunzio plans to open the display garden to the public at the peak of the daylily growing season during mid-June to mid-July. A catalog of his daylilies available for sale will be available at the local garden shop All in a Row.
Dinunzio’s main interest in growing daylilies is hybridizing, the process of breeding two different types of the flowers to produce a plant with new features or a different color. His goal is to produce a miniature double iavender bloom.
Hybridizing plants is a lot like breeding animals, Dinunzio says. Where a certain horse sire is dominant for a particular shape of head, certain daylilies always produce ruffles, while others provide a dominant color or shape, he says. A plant may have a dull bloom but feature beautiful branching, leading to a
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