WELCOME TO DIANNE AND GUS TAYLOR’S DAYLILY GARDEN IN POQUOSON VA PHOTO OF OUR GARDEN

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I began gardening here in 1994 and by 1996 I had discovered daylilies and was in full hemaholic mode. I loved all daylilies, but I quickly realized that spiders and unusual forms were my favorites. By 1997, I was "pollen dabbing" any daylily that would stand still for it. My goal was to develop large thin spiders of 12 inches or more. By 2000, my goal expanded to include double spiders. I had no idea how to really go about this so I started willy nilly crossing spiders and unusual forms with no real idea that I would succeed.

Then in the summer of 2003, my daylily partner John Bunting and I were walking the seedling beds and I looked down to see a beautiful pink double spidery blooming. I immediately began screaming, jumping up and down, and pointing. I know John thought I was crazy, but all I could do was scream and point. When I finally calmed down enough to tell John what I was looking at, he became excited too.

What we were looking at was a seedling with 12 4" segments that opened wide from the center like a spider giving it that open and airy look and feel that you only get from a spider. The cross tag had been lost so all we knew was that the pod parent was John Lambert’s ASTERISK. I do believe the pollen parent was either Ned Robert’s SKINWALKER or DESERT ICICLE because those were the only spider pollen I used for years after I got those plants.

We watched every bloom and used the pollen on other spiders and ufs. Every bloom of this ASTERISK double seedling, now registered as ASHEE DASHEE, was double.

Last summer, 2005, about 40 seedlings from the first set of crosses bloomed. About 15 of those seedlings were doubles. WIREGRASS GREENSTAR and CALICO SPIDER were great parents and produced 3 or 4 doubles each. ORANGUTAN, PRAGUE SPRING, and ITSY BITSY SPIDER also produced doubles. Of the first set of seedlings from AD, most will bloom this summer, 2006.

The following are pictures of ASHEE DASHEE.
As you can see, the flower does not always look the same, but it always opens wide from the center like a spider.

ASHEE DASHEE – side view
ASHEE DASHEE			Flower from two fused buds.

The flower ASHEE DASHEE is named for my 3 year old granddaughter Ashlyn Emily Taylor.
Like the flower, she is a very unusual little girl.Here are two pictures that show her wide range of expression.

Introducing Ashee Dashee (Dianne Taylor, 2006)

Statistics:

• 8 " flower, 32" Scape
• Diploid double
• Semi-evergreen
• Green throat, yellow eye, pink petals/sepals
• Blooms early
• Pollen fertile

Here are some pictures of ASHEE DASHEE’s babies.

CALICO SPIDER X ASHEE DASHEE	ORAGUTAN X ASHEE DASHEE	WIREGRASS GREENSTAR X ASHEE DASHEE	WIREGRASS GREENSTAR X ASHEE DASHEE side view
WIREGRASS GREENSTAR X ASHEE DASHEE	WIREGRASS GREENSTAR X ASHEE DASHEE	WIREGRASS GREENSTAR X ASHEE DASHEE blooms with 18 segments	CALICO SPIDER X ASHEE DASHEE
UNKNOWN X ASHEE DASHEE	PRAGUE SPRING X ASHEE DASHEE	UNKNOWN X ASHEE DASHEE	CALICO SPIDER BY ASHEE DASHEE
WIREGRASS GREENSTAR X ASHEE DASHEE	ENDURING LOVE X ASHEE DASHEE		CALICO SPIDER BY ASHEE DASHEE
CALICO SPIDER X ASHEE DASHEE	CALICO SPIDER X ASHEE DASHEE	CAT'S CRADLE X ASHEE DASHEE	CAT'S CRADLE BY ASHEE DASHEE
ENDURING LOVE X ASHEE DASHEE	ITSY BITSY SPIDER X ASHEE DASHEE	WIREGRASS GREENSTAR X ASHEE DASHEE	ENDURING LOVE X ASHEE DASHEE
CAT'S CRADLE X ASHEE DASHEE	PRAGUE SPRING X ASHEE DASHEE	PRAGUE SPRING X ASHEE DASHEE	CALICO SPIDER BY ASHEE DASHEE
UNKNOWN X ASHEE DASHEE	PRAGUE SPRING X ASHEE DASHEE	CALICO SPIDER X ASHEE DASHEE	YAZOO WILD VIOLET BY ASHEE DASHEE
YAZOO WILD VIOLET X ASHEE DASHEE		WIREGRASS GREENSTAR BY AD)