Wouldn’t it be neat to have a blue tinted lily like this? 2023 Update, they now are selling with a purple tint.
Or 1000 rainbow roses?
Or seeds for this green daylily?
The previous flowers are all fake or scam items for sale online, the sellers have put up images that don’t reflect reality.
Economics of a $1.00 packet of seed. In Canada costs will start at $2.00 for postage and packaging materials to mail seeds that are protected in a bubble mailer, let alone the value of the seed which includes the skill and time put into its breeding, growth, collection and packaging. Consider the $1.00 blue lily seed with free shipping, 475 sold, all fake.
Plant breeders are working towards advancements like blue and multicolored. It takes time. There are daylilies that have blueish purple in them. There are lilies that have more than one color on a petal, just not like that photoshopped rose image.
Now on to the actual seeds. Yes, a buyer will probably get seeds in the mail from the sketchy online source. They may be for a field crop or lawn. People order daylily seeds, and they turn out be canola seeds. Rainbow rose seeds, that are rose seeds, when they bloom do not resemble a rainbow.
Pretty easy to put grass or coriander into little baggies and mail it off.
Here, seeds are carefully made, crosses recorded, shelled and sorted.
How to Protect Yourself
Ask a seller for pictures of the seed and what their growing practices are. Read the descriptions and the about sections.
Now where to buy seed?
Join the North American Lily Society and buy lily seeds from the exchange. They have discounted prices for their older seed.
Buy off of The Lily Auction which is a site for daylily seeds.
You can find many legitimate sources for seed on online. Look for seed sellers or exchanges in your province or country. If it is too good to be true, it probably is.
We list here at Lilyfield Farm as well at these links on Ebay and Etsy. We guarantee our seeds, because we grow them ourselves.