APRICOT SENSATION
Sdlg 72-19 (sdlg x sdlg) 34″ M. Re. Dor 7.5″ 3 br 15 buds
A breathtakingly beautiful flower, this huge 8 inch flower has captured my heart. It is an EMO and greets you with its tender soft apricot peach base color and huge bold pattern. The deep cranberry red pattern with striking variations is punctuated by a lovely green throat. Its lightly ruffled petals and sepals produce a beautiful tailored look. It has instant rebloom and faces out for easy viewing. With good substance and outstanding sun resistance, this consistently large flower is truly a magnificent bloom to display in the garden. It has instant rebloom, opens flat and holds flat; it has outstanding sun resistance and good strong scapes that hold all season. It has medium green arching healthy foliage. Easy pod and pollen fertility, moderate increase, and so far has been shown to have good rust resistance. ($150.00 d.f.)
BLACKBERRY TART
Sdlg 11-15 (sdlg x sdlg) 24″ E. Re. SEv. 6.5″. 3 br 18 buds (2015)
This is a very striking flower; the photo does not do it justice. It has high contrast colors and large size. It is the very first flower to bloom in my garden. It opens well in cool weather, and has had continuous rebloom in this garden throughout the season. I am introducing it because of its outstanding garden performance; it is a large flower with good substance, excellent sun resistance and rust resistance.
It almost always has a flower or two open at any given time during the bloom season. The plant is both pod and pollen fertile, easy to use. It has a moderate rate of increase. The foliage overall stays very clean of disease throughout the season in this garden. ($25 d.f.)
BICOLOR BONANZA
SOLD OUT FOR 2026
Sdlg 69-19 (sdlg x sdlg) 6.5″ 36″ SEv M – L Re 3 br 12 buds (2023)
If ever there was a flower that you could say “glows in the dark,” Bicolor Bonanza would fit that description. This flower stands out in the garden with its contrast of large bright orange-red and gold blooms. This is an outstanding garden plant, with strong upright scapes that are completely weather resistant. The plant makes a nice tight nosegay of flowers, with good substance and outstanding sun resistance. The foliage is medium green and has shown excellent rust resistance. It is pod and pollen fertile.
I have seen dozens of these orange and gold bicolor flowered plants, but this one is by far the best of that type. It has moderate increase. ($105 df. Spring shipping)
BLUEBERRY RIPPLES
SOLD OUT FOR 2026
Sdlg 56-18 (sdlg x sdlg) 32″ M. Dor 6″. 3 br 22 buds (2023)
This is one flower I have been in love with from the first day I saw it. It is a beautiful clear cream with many pattern variations in a deep bluish-purple color. The patterns vary; we may never see the exact same patten twice, but the colors remain the same throughout the season, and the patterns are bold enough to easily see at a distance. For most of its bloom season, when temperatures are in the 80’s, the patterns retain their intricate appearance. Temperatures in the 90’s cause the patterns to become bolder and simpler. The flower has outstanding sun resistance and high rust resistance. The plant is a reasonably vigorous cultivar, with good strong scapes forming a nice nosegay of flowers when in full bloom. It is pod and pollen fertile; some years the plant sets pods on nearly every flower, other years it sets few or none at all. This plant has moderate to rapid increase, with disease resistant shiny foliage. ($100 d.f. Spring shipping)
CARBON BLACK
Sdlg 32-20 (sdlg x sdlg) 24″ M. Re. Dor 7″ 4 br 24 buds
Without a doubt, this is the darkest daylily, full-formed or otherwise, that I have flowered in this garden. It is not a tall daylily, but it is extremely sun tolerant and full-formed, which makes it an outstanding flower to have in your garden either for enjoyment or for hybridizing. The flower opens fairly flat and maintains its shape all day. Its sun resistance is outstanding for its color, and sun and heat are required to give it the carbon-paper black color. It has a beautiful smooth finish that resists temperatures well into the 90’s. One downside of this plant is that it actually requires heat and strong sun to bring out its saturated black color. In cooler weather, it tends to be a purplish black brown. That soon clears up when the temperature rises into the 80’s and 90’s. It is a moderate increaser, and some years it can be quite fertile, with many pods, while in other years it can be reluctant to set pods. It’s shorter stature of 28 inches is, to me, its only other fault, if you can consider that a fault. It has good healthy strong foliage and fairly quickly make a good clump. ($135.00 d.f.)
CHIMERA DELIGHT
(Sold out for 2024)
Sdlg 46-16 (sdlg x sdlg) 7″ 36″ SEv EM Re. 3 br 12 buds
From its 2016 maiden bloom in the seedling patch, this plant has always been an interesting one. It has a mind of its own, deciding if and when it is going to show its color breaks. To this day, I still don’t understand what conditions are needed to produce the color breaks. Some years the breaks are very small or non-existent at the beginning of the season, then they become more numerous and bigger later in the season. Other years it starts off with considerable color break pattern early in the season and comes and goes in the rest of the season. It has rebloom characteristics most years in our garden.
The blooms in ideal growing conditions can be as large as nine inches across early in the season. These early large blooms usually do not show the color breaks. The beauty of the large flat greenish yellow flowers, even after a 40 degree night, justifies having this plant in the garden, in my opinion. Generally speaking, as the season progresses and the flower size diminishes to the 7-inch range, the best color break patterns start to show up. Some years they are large and very intense, other times you might see one large blotch, a few dots, and a few stripes. These traits (in my hybridizing program) tend to be passed down to the offspring of this plant. Its down side is that it is a relatively slow increaser, and its bud count is lower that I would have hoped. I have bloomed out a number of its offspring with large size and differing shades of colors, such as light apricot and gold; some of these have even more color break pattern than Chimera Delight. One thing for sure is, you never know from day to day what to expect from the bloom on this plant.
I highly reccommend that you not allow Chimera Delight to bloom the first year. It is a slow increaser, and allowing it to bloom may interrupt its ability to re-establish.
Chimera Delight
The substance of this bloom is heavy and it has outstanding sun resistance. Although three branches is normal under good growing conditions, I have seen 5-way spaced branching on occasion with this plant. The plant has scapes that are strong and hold the flowers up well. It has reasonable fertility both ways. This plant has been very healthy and hardy with attractive foliage. It remains rust-free during the main growing season, but can show some signs of rust at the end of the growing season as the plants are shutting down. I would call it a semi-evergreen because it tends to keep short small leaf tips in the crown during the winter. In bitterly cold weather, the plant does go dormant. It has never shown any signs of winter injury in our coldest winters. If you are hybridizing for color break patterns, this is a plant to consider. ($225.00 s.f.)
CIRCLES AND BEYOND
Sdlg 164-12 (Sdlg x Sdlg) 34″ L. Dor. 6″ – 7″. The blooms are carried on sturdy scapes with two lateral and one terminal branch. There are 16-18 buds. (2015)
This is definitely one of our favorite flowers in the garden. An EMO, it greets you by facing directly at you as you enter the garden in the early morning. It is exceptionally sun resistant and maintains its color, form, and pattern into the evening hours. The early blooms have a red cast to the purple, which changes to a true purple as the temperature rises. As the bloom season progresses, the pattern becomes more intricate, adding dots to the striped narrow band which circles the eyezone. The flower maintains a stable pattern of some sort throughout the blooming season, and is always a joy to see. It is pod and pollen fertile.
This plant has dark green foliage which has been marred by only one rust pustule since we selected it in 2012, in spite of high rust-infestation garden conditions. I give it a high rust-resistant (HR) rating in my garden. ($25.00 d.f.)
CITRUS BLEND BONANZA
Sdlg 146-15 (sdlg x sdlg) 7″ 30″ M. Re. Dor-Sev 2br 15 buds (2024)
This plant has been in our garden for a number of years; for the last several years, it has impressed me so much with its prolific bloom and huge flowers that I finally decided to introduce it. It is a mid-season bloomer; it initiates its first set of scapes, immediately followed by a second set of scapes, which provides a bloom show that is beyond anything else in the garden when it is in full bloom. The flowers start out at 8 inches and do not go below 7 inches during its bloom cycle. It faces out at a 2:30 (clock face angle) so that the flowers can be viewed from any direction. The base color is a soft orange with a dark orange eyezone and a green throat with slight starburst. There is also considerable green color at the base of the sepals. The flowers always open flat and stay flat all day. It has excellent sun resistance. It has moderately heavy substance and provides a real blast of color when it is in full bloom.
The foliage is arching and gracefull, more grass-like than most foliage on my cultivars. The scapes are very upright and don’t lean out at all. It has excellent disease resistance and has not shown any signs of rust in this garden. It is fertile both ways, difficult pod. (Spring 2025 shipping $75.00 d.f.)
COSMIC FIREBALL
Sdlg 137-15 (sdlg x sdlg) 35″ L. Re. SEv. 6″. 2 br 30 buds (2015)
I absolutely adore this flower for its vibrant glowing color and impeccable sun resistance. The color of this flower, even during the most brutal summer days, remains virtually unchanged from morning to evening. It is definitely one that catches your eye even from a great distance.
It is a tall, reasonably vigorous plant which does have a long bloom season due to rebloom. It is pod and pollen fertile, with pods setting primarily at the end of the season as the temperatures cool down. I give this a rust rating of HR, high rust resistance. ($50.00 d.f.)
COPPER PRINCE
Sdlg 55-18 (sdlg x sdlg) 36″ 7″ Mla Re. Dor 2 br 12 buds (2023)
I have always liked this flower. I blooms in the hottest time of year and does well out in the full sun. In very hot weather, it does roll back some. But generally, it is a beautiful flat flower. I consider it a step in the right direction for breeding a patterned red, since it does have a ring of broken pattern. It is a color that I would describe as not really red, but drifting toward red, a coppery rosered with a big yellow green throat. Its scapes are tall and straight which do not lean throughout the season. It is pod and pollen fertile; since it blooms in the hottest season here, setting ods is difficult but I can set pods if there are rare breaks of cool temperatures during the heat of summer. It is a unique looking flower; no other bloom in the garden has even a similar look. It has healthy rust resistant foliage and is dormant. ($50 per d.f.)
COSMIC FIRESTORM
Sdlg 185-14 (sdlg x sdlg) 32″ L. Re. Dor. 7″. 3 br 24 buds (2017)
This free-flowering late cultivar always blooms during some of the hottest weather of the season. It shows off with a blaze of glorious color with outstanding sun resistance. Both the lively color and the flower form suggest flames to me. The color is a blend of orange-red and yellow, and is resistant to fading and browning. The substance is moderately heavy, and these flowers are early morning openers; they still look brilliant well into the evening hours. A bud-builder with rebloom, it has a long bloom season, and is generally one of the last flowers of the season to produce a big show.
Strong scapes with vigorous foliage and high rust resistance makes this a wonderful garden flower. It is a moderately fast increaser. It is pod and pollen fertile, but the pod fertility is only assured in the later cooler temperatures of the season. ($25.00 d.f.)
COSMIC WAVES
Sdlg 127-12 (Sdlg x Sdlg) 34″ M. Re. SEv. 5″. Blooms are carried on three wide-angle lateral branches plus terminal, with 20 buds. Scapes are tall and sturdy. (2015)
This is a wonderful garden flower. It is an EMO and has a long bloom season with frequent rebloom. It has outstanding sun resistance and retains its delicate color in full sun conditions. The colors in the first blooms have a rosy cast in the large eye, but as the temperature rises the eye color becomes closer to blue. The temperature increase also causes more rollback, so that the mauve-colored base color is hidden behind the very large near-blue tinted eye.
This flower retains its color and form well into the evening. It has excellent summer foliage; I have given it a high rust-resistance (HR) rating, as it resists signs of rust even in rust-infested gardens here. Easy pod and pollen fertile. ($25.00 d.f.)
CRINKLED SILK
Sdlg 87-19 (sdlg x sdllg) 32″ M. Re. Dor 6.5″ 3 br 15 buds
Of all of the flowers that I have bloomed out in my garden, this is one of the more unique flower forms. If you like wide, blunt sepals, this is the cat’s meow! The combination of huge blunt sepals and magnificent wide ruffled petals set it way above most other flowers, in my opinion. It has a refined looking texture, but at the same time has a crinkly overall surface to the petals, which make it look extra-ruffled. It opens up with very slight challiced form in cool weather, but it opens very flat in warm temperatures. It’s color can vary considerably from deep coral-red to a coral-orange, depending on weather conditions. It always maintains its voluptuous form. Perched on top of strong scapes, the blooms always catch your eye when viewed in the garden. It has excellent sun resistance, it is pod and pollen fertile, and does rebloom. The plant has very healthy shiny dark green foliage with arching form. It does pass on blunt sepals to many of its kids. ($140.00 d.f.)
DIAMOND BRACELET
Sdlg 73-18 (sdlg x sdlg) 28″ M. – L. Dor. 7″. 3 br 18 buds (2023)
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This large flower has been of interest to me from its maiden bloom. It has been my only large-flowered purple that has a pattern in a single band; most of the purple patterns have been multi-banded or ringed broken patterns. This one consistently has one ring, like a bracelet. In cool weather (in the 80’s) the patterned single ring is quite consistent and the cooler the temperature, the more intense the color of the pattern becomes. As the temperatures go into the 90’s the flower maintains its medium purple color but the ring, while maintaining a lighter shade of lavender, loses its broken pattern.
This large 7-inch flower (occasionally 8-inch) opens flat from the throat, which gives it an impressive presence when several of the blooms are open on the plant at once. It has excellent sun resistance and rust resistance. It has a moderate rate of increase and is pod and pollen fertile; the pods in my garden generally set only in cooler weather at the end of the season (if the temperature is in the low 80’s). I would expect it to set more pods in cooler climates. Overall it is an exceptional flower on strong upright scapes and faces out at the viewer, a trait that I value highly. ($75 d.f.)
ENERGY RIBBON
Sdlg 55-11 (Sdlg x Sdlg) 34″ E. Dor. 6 – 6.5″. Blooms are carried well above the foliage with three laterals plus a terminal branch with 16 buds. Most years there is instant rebloom. (2015)
This wonderful early season plant always greets you with a fully opened flower early every morning. In cool weather it exhibits a broad blue-lavender band with intricate patterns on a soft delicate pink base color. As the temperature rises, most of the intricate pattern disappears, leaving the bold lavender band intact with a lesser pattern. The sepals show a true blue shade in a halo most of the time. This flower has excellent sun resistance and is easy pod and pollen fertile.
This plant has dark green healthy foliage and I have given it a rust-resistant (RR) rating as the foliage has never had even one rust pustule, even under heavy rust-infested garden conditions here. With stocky scapes and huge seed pods (and seed as big as Tet seeds) this definitely is an outstanding plant for the hybridizer and is one of my favorites. ($35.00 d.f.)
ETHEREAL LAVENDER
Sdlg 20-NK (Sdlg x Sdlg) 32″ M. Dor. 6″. Blooms are carried well above the foliage on stocky scapes of four laterals and a terminal branch with 30 buds. (2015)
This clear and delicately colored self, with beautifully balanced and reliable form, is always a joy to see. It thrives in hot weather, changing only from a light color to a very pale color. The darker wire edge on the petals is retained as is the stiff heavy substance of this bloom. It is an EMO and is lovely from early morning throughout the sun and heat of summer days into the early evening hours. It has some instant rebloom.
The plant has good dark green foliage throughout the summer and has remained completely resistant to rust (RR rating); not one rust pustule has ever appeared on the foliage, even in rust-infested garden conditions here since 2008. Slow to increase. Very fertile both ways, easy to use. ($35.00 d.f.)
FIRE ENGINE RED
Sdlg 115-15 (sdlg x sdlg) 36″ M. Dor. – SEv. 7″ 2 br 20 buds (2018) (LIMITED SUPPLY)
This flower is all about the color and form. In spite of heat and sun exposure, the color and form are retained by the bloom. It is hard to imagine how this flower can be tough enough to hold up under our southern summer conditions and remain in excellent condition, even into evening hours. With very strong scapes and good foliage, this makes an excellent clump for any garden setting.
Pod and pollen fertile, with a high rust resistant rating, this is a useful plant for hybridizing as well as a rewarding plant in the landscape. In our garden, it can be semi-evergreen in warmer fall temperatures but goes dormant when hard freezes occur. ($45.00 d.f.)
FIRECRACKER ORANGE
Sdlg 97-16 (sdlg x sdlg) 7″ 30″ Dor – SEv 3 br 16 buds (2021)
This massive heavy-substanced flower takes your breath away in a clump setting. Its flat full form holds even in the most dreadful late summer heat without fading. Its form is very flat and the bloom maintains that form throughout the day. It’s a very bright clear red-orange in cool weather, becoming more golden orange in warmer weather. It has a red-orange band surrounding an exploding yellow green throat. The scapes are heavy and very upright, with beautiful dark green foliage. It has high rust resistance, is fertile both ways, and has moderate to rapid increase. It blooms during the hellacious summer environment and almost seems to enjoy it. It’s a wonderful performing garden flower. ($50.00 d.f.)
FLIRTING WITH BLUE
Sdlg 181-16 (sdlg x sdlg) 6.5″ 32″ Dor E. 3 br 15 buds Re. (2021)
This large flower is one of a kind. From its earliest blooms, it has been a favorite of mine. Although the color varies according to temperature, the predominant blue band in the bloom is a deep nearly blue jean blue. Some days the deep blue fades into a more bluish lavender, but the dark blue bands appear repeatedly during its bloom season. It has outstanding sun resistance, high rust resistance, and is dormant.It has good overall foliage. The scapes are strong, supporting the bloom well. It is fertile both ways, easy pod and pollen fertility. It has instant rebloom plus scattered rebloom later in the season. It has moderate substance and generally holds its flat form throughout the day. It is one of my favorite daylilies in the garden. ($85.00 d.f.)
FLYING FOX
Sdlg 202-15 (sdlg x sdlg) 32″ M. – L. Re. Dor. 7″. 2 br 25 buds (2018)
The form of this flower varies more than I like, but the color intrigued me. As the temperature rises, the raised midrib becomes more prominent, and sometimes causes the outer tip of the petals to twist. Named for the black color of the fruit-eating tropical bats called flying foxes, this flower remains deep black-purple even in our hot southern summer sun. The flowers have moderate to heavy substance, and are carried well above the foliage, hovering like a flying bat. The plant has stocky scapes, and lighter green foliage than most of my cultivars, but the foliage is of a robust nature.
The plant has high rust resistance in addition to its surprising sun resistance. It is reluctant to set pods in hot weather, but does show pod fertility during cooler temperatures. It is pollen fertile. ($35.00 d.f.)
FOUNTAIN OF YELLOW
Sdlg 67-12 (sdlg x sdlg) 36″ MLa. Dor 6″ 4 br 20 buds
I wasn’t planning on introducing this flower; I was planning on keeping it for myself. As I sit in my La-Z-Boy recliner watching T.V. (which isn’t often during the day), I can look outside through my tropical room glass doors and see it in bloom. It is just a big blast of yellow! I have been enjoying this plant for many years. It never ceases to amaze me how it can show such abundance of blooms for such a long period of the season, such sun resistance, and the ability to retain its color throughout the day. The only reason that I decided to introduce it is that a good customer stopped by to make a purchase and told me that he had to have a piece of this plant for a bonus. In the first place, I didn’t want to dig into the large clump, and in the second place, I don’t like to give away unnamed seedlings. But I was persuaded, and at that point, I decided that this plant was worthy of naming; I named it Fountain of Yellow and gave my customer a named and registered daylily. It has been the backbone of my yellow hybridizing program; it is extremely pod fertile, and was selected out of many dozens of yellows as my personal “Best in Show” for many years. I have several other futures that have it as a parent, with large size (up to nine inches), and outstanding sun resistance with virtually no fading. This plant has very upright scapes and high bud count. The foliage is fairly upright, deep blue-green, and has high rust resistance. It has shown rust on several occasions, but only a small amount of rust and very late in the season. It has taken me many years to get a rust-resistant yellow as this color was one of the most susceptible to rust early in my hybridizing program. It has moderate increase and instant rebloom. ($125.00 d.f. )
FRENCH PARASOL (SOLD OUT FOR 2026)
Sdlg 93-17 (sdlg x sdlg) 8″ 32″ Dor M 3 br 15 buds
My kind of flower! This huge perfect-every-time flower is a glorious addition to my line of cultivars. This flower has been extremely consistent in its performance. I don’t recall a day that it didn’t open its flowers perfectly unless it has been crowded by a neighbor. Its outstanding performance is maintained throughout the day as it holds its rich color into the evening hours.
Although it is not an especially tall plant, its flowers are held above the foliage, creating a nosegay of color. It doesn’t take many of these flowers to create a show on any given day. It has excellent medium green foliage which remains rust- and disease-free throughout the season. It always greets you fully opened when you arrive at the garden early in the morning. Its big full flat form is a sight to behold.
It is pod and pollen fertile, with strong and sturdy scapes. It is a moderate increaser. This has always been one of my favorite flowers. ($135.00 d.f.)
