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Does anyone on this forum have contact with Bob Selman. Last year he started selling almost exclusively his own hybrids (along with another guy I don't know). Anyway, the wonderful selection of everyone else's daylilies is no longer listed. I got some wonderful daylilies by Salter, Hensley, Stamilie etc. from him in the past but he seems to have dried up as a source for anything other then his own. I'm wondering if he's never going back to selling others daylilies again, or what the future holds. Anyone know?..............Maryl

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  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    Sorry, but I don't "do" Facebook although I've seen his site on it. I ordered two daylilies from him this spring and in my E-Mail hinted strongly that I'd like to see him back to offering the other daylilies as he did before. I heard nothing back from him on that suggestion. Surely I can't be the only one who misses all the other varieties he used to sell. He was such a good rust free source. I was hoping that someone maybe knew him personally or had been to his operation and could find out if he had plans to resume selling them ......Maryl

  • 8 years ago

    Bob Selman no longer sells on the Lily Auction. He has a website but only lists his intros as well as Eric Simpson's, his partner. He sells on the Blooming Auction (there is a link to it on his website--looks like the daylilies there are his own) and on Facebook (as already mentioned). On Facebook he does sell others' intros, but I know he has cleaned out his collection of hundreds of daylilies he said did not do well for him in his climate.

    Nancy

  • 8 years ago

    I think Bob has so many of his own intros now that he sold out of the others. He likely needs the space to propagate his own intros and all his new seedlings each year. I was surprised when he parted ways with the Lily Auction and his old partner, Dale Hensley. I bought many plants from Selman over the years on both LA and the Blooming Auction, and I also miss that source.

  • 8 years ago

    I'm familiar with all his old and current sites. He also separately published a list of cultivars for sale aside from both auction sites which is what I've always used to order from. I did talk to Dale Hensley last year via e-mail looking for a new source for his hybrids, and I gathered that the association with Bob is finished- kaput. I know that Faye Shooter at Marietta has some of Dale's daylilies for sale now.......After this 2nd year with still no update from Bob on the multi varieties I figured that it was about what Debra said. But I'd like to hear it from the horses mouth so to speak. .....If anyone ever has a shot at asking him if he will ever offer other people's daylilies again, I hope they ask him. ......... And coincidently, my order from Blueridge just arrived today..........Maryl

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    He was at our winter meeting in Columbus but I failed to ask him about that. His own introductions are iron-clad hardy here, grow so well, and bloom such pretty flowers. I bought several that he auctioned off, including his 2018 intro, Kathrine Tims, a yellow double with a red eye.

  • 8 years ago

    In my limited experience with his hybrids Dick they haven't been as colorfast as I would like in our climate but he has so many of them that I'm sure some have that trait. Unfortunately I can't try them all - although I'd like to -LOL..........Maryl

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