Hillside Daylilies is located about an hour drive west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I’ve been growing and hybridizing daylilies for 25 years after an earlier infatuation with orchids. My original goal was to breed daylilies with spots and while that work continues, it expanded to include stripes and broken patterns. Tet cristates as well as tet polys are exciting new areas that have grabbed my attention in addition to a few other lines. I have been trying to do tetraploid conversions for over a dozen years now, to test my patience and stubbornness. The very few successes have provided the opportunity to work with some truly unique genetics. I can think of no better way to produce distinctive cultivars than by using plants that nobody else has, and isn’t that what we are trying to do?