The Library at Daylily Lay
My Daylily Mentor, Oscie B. Whatley, Jr.
Oscie Whatley, Man from Jakarta
Profile in PDF document format of my late friend and mentor, written and published in 1998 in the Daylily Journal.
Oscie Whatley Interview and 60th Wedding Anniversary
Article in PDF document format that appeared in the Region 11 MoKanOk magazine, 2004
Oscie's Funeral, July 2005 (PDF format)
A posting to the AHS E-mail Robin that was reprinted in the Region 11 MoKanOk magazine and the Daylily Journal.
An illustrated review in PDF format of the Whatley cultivars I know, written in December, 2006, updated 2013, and running to 37 pages and 2.9 Megabytes!
Oscie Whatley's 1989 Articles on Hybridizing
These articles were scanned from an AHS reprint, edited as a Word document, and saved as a PDF file.
Oscie Whatley's Garden Records with Study Guides
This is a set of reports I compiled after a close study of Oscie's garden notebooks.
A 1972 Genetecs Booklet by Joanne Norton
This is a scan of an out-of-print AHS booklet, converted to a Word document and saved as a PDF file.
Irma Searles, St. Louis Hybridizer
Irma Searles was a successful hybridizer in the 1960s in the St. Louis area. She left a meticulous record of her work with daylilies, such that anyone interested in hybridizing would benefit from studying it.
My Blog, "Creating Interest"
I learned how to set up a blog at http://creatinginterest.blogspot.com in 2007. There you'll find occasional ramblings about books, music, gardens, and the museum world.