Cardinal Summer (Murphy 2019) 6" M 34" Dormant Diploid Spider
Bright, deep brilliant red with velvety sheen. Chartreuse throat, partial length midribs are lighter in color. Sunfast to at least 90 or 95. Very few daylilies are this sunfast in this color range. Fertile and a good parent. 2 branches and 14 buds. Out of (It Glows x Lava Stream). Freeze-resistant dormant blue green foliage.
Bright reddish lavender with purple band, huge lemon-cream throat, with a ruffled creamy edge, it can have six-way branching on strong scapes. It is sunfast to 98 degrees F. 4 branches, 30 buds. Unusual form cascade. The most striking daylily in our late section of the display garden. It bloomed for about 2 months this year, with every day many blooms open. Perhaps the nicest aspect for me is good looks after rain, wind, sun, heat, and sprinkler. Pollen fertile, pod very difficult, superlative parent for tall, excellent branching and bud count kids.
Reed, 2005 - 42" M 7" dor.dip. Pale gold with dark wine-red eye, yellow throat
Named after my favorite daughter, the softball player, this daylily has a black eye! The bloom is very ruffled and has a narrow, exotic form. The dark wine-red/black eye is in high contrast to the pale gold/parchment background color. There is the slight beginning of a picotee edge in the dark color. This daylily presents many different faces, but it is always very showy in the garden. Fertile both ways and often reblooms.
Reed, 2005 - 45" Mla 7" dor.dip.Dark red purple self, great substance and form, well branched. Excellent garden plant, always showy and reliable, excellent scapes.
Reed, 2008 - 36" EM 6.5" dor. Dip. Soft pink with creamy ruffled edges, 4-way branching
Soft pink, with a cream throat and midribs, and creamy ruffled edges. Out of Loch Ness Monster, the ruffles are on all segments, and the bloom is gently recurved and narrow. The garden name has been Pink LNM. With wide 4-way branching and 18-20 buds, it displays the blooms nicely. It is named after my mother, who was the first person I knew to grow daylilies. If only hers in the 1950's had been this pretty! She would love it. Fertile.
Murphy, '05 - 36" VlaRe 6.5" dor.dip.UF Bright, saturated, clear red spatulate blooms, sunfast, 5-way branching, with high bud count and very long and late bloom season. Spatulate, a rarity nowadays.
Bright, clear red, almost crimson blooms, with a darker red eye, orange throat, and green heart. A very clear colored VL. Blooms at least 2 months, starting after SANDRA ELIZABETH. Five way branching, 29 buds, and instant rebloom. Sunfast, period.
(Murphy 2011) 53" ML 6.5" Dormant Diploid Cascade UF
This is actually a 2011 summer intro that was a gift plant for attendees of the Region 3 Summer Meeting. This large light gold cascade with lighter midribs is diamond dusted, and outfacing, important for tall ones. The spent blooms and buds are also gold, making it a pleasing back of the border plant. Out of (SUNNY SON x JERSEY JIM) x (LUNA) , and is fertile, and tough. 2 branches, 18 buds, 100% sunfast. Able to grow in a wide variety of climates and conditions. Favorable comments from coastal California, Deep South- several locations, Boston, Utah, Michigan, and Iowa.
RECENTLY WAS AWARDED AN HONORABLE MENTION (HM).
It seems to draw raves from all corners of the country .It has won best in section and best in show several times.
(Murphy, 2019) 46" EM 8" dormant diploid, UF – cascade
Light pink-melon cream with chartreuse throat. Lighter colored on hot days. 100% sunfast. Can be very curly at times, and is always ruffled. Generous 5-way branching and 20 buds. The buds are huge, and ornamental. Parentage: (Monacan Trail x Just Jessie). Pollen fertile.
E Murphy 08 43" LRE 6.5" Dor Dip Fragrant 3 Branches, 21 Buds
Pink blend Cascade with cream midribs and chartruese throat. This plant starts to bloom here in late July and blooms until at least September. Tall, with strong scapes. Eric's last introduction.
Dormant diploid Pink with chartreuse throat, cream edge and cream midribs. This flower starts late, and blooms for a very long time, is fragrant, extended, cascade Unusual Form, and fragrant. It has heavy substance and creped texture. Out of AFTER A WHILE CROCODILE by a Murphy seedling. 3 branches and 21 buds, blooming until September here some years. Fertile.
45" M 7.25" dormant diploid. Rose pink with a darker rose-red band, green throat. This has tall, deeply-branched scapes with 3 way branching and 26 buds. Nice presentation of the blooms. Pollen fertile, pods difficult but possible. A garden favorite for years!
Very tall, well-branched and budded, this extra-large reddish lavender with a dark lavender eye, gold throat, and ruffled cream edge stands out, to say the least, towering over lesser plants. On cool mornings, grey. Sunfast to over 90 degrees; fertile. Very long blooming. (Grey Witch X North Wind Dancer)
Warrell '98 - 36" Mla 6.5" dor.dip.ext. uf Black Red self. This plant is a sunfast black red. It blooms until very late. Very good parent.
A truly great cultivar for sunfast dark black red blooms in the late garden. Reliable.
Murphy 2015 48" EMRe 8" dormant, tetraploid 3 branches, 23 buds, very sunfast Unusual Form – Cascade ( Fish Face x Freewheelin)
Tall, huge, stunning yellow with large jagged purple eye, green throat, blue-green foliage. I tagged this seedling on its’ first bloom. It has proven its’ worth in 4 seedling seasons. It can have taller scapes with more branching in exceptional conditions. All cultivars have qualities and considerations. This one checks most every box, except is not pod fertile. The scapes are thick and strong, but a few have leaned over in thunderstorms when they have several 8 inch blooms, but it is not the dreaded flopper... Going to flower shows? Bring this one. Wide and broad branching with well spaced flowers.
Excellent again in 2018.
Cute as a chipmunk, this little brown spidery bloom has a black stripe (eye) and green throat. It is tall, well-branched, and has lots of bloom. Not quite a miniature or a true spider, it has potential in that direction. It is out of REUTHERS BROWN SPIDER x BROWN WITCH, which gives it a heritage of vigor and pod fertility.
Great grower and does well in poor conditions.
Metzger ( 2013) 43" EMRE 6.5 Dor Dip Ext. Cascade Unusual Form
David's flower has been a star in our garden for five years now. Orange and tan, with a red eye, green throat, and cream edge, it curls radically on hot humid days. Quite sunfast. Four way branching, 27 buds, and a long bloom season, with some rebloom. Out of two great ones, MAGIC OF OZ, by ROCKET SCIENCE. The latter is hardy in zone 3. Pollen fertile, Pod difficult. Very limited.
(Murphy, 2019) 54" M 7" dormant diploid, UF – cascade
Dark cream with lavender eye and green throat . Cream midribs on petals, the backs of petals are pinkish. Won best seedling at NCDC show in 2018. Grows fast, with tall, strong scapes. 4 branches and 20 buds. Fertile both ways, and makes tall lavender-eyed kids. Out of (((Evil Gnome x Indian Giver)x( Complicated)) x Unknown).
Soft peach cream ruffled blooms sit atop well-branched scapes, with blush-rose eyes and light green throats. The blooms tend to be upfacing, and look like a cloud could land there comfortably! The only downside is that the foliage is a light green color. Pod and pollen fertile.
Parentage: CRYSTALLINE ENTITY X MARGO REED INDEED.
Bret Clement, 2009. 32" La 7.5" dormant, diploid. Uf crispate. Rose red with white midrib and edge, and slightly darker rose eye above green throat. This makes a great clump with rosy pointed stars covering the plant! Not only a great name, but a great plant.
This reddish-lavender cascade has muted purple and slate patterned eyezones. A reliable re-bloomer here with 2 branches, 15 buds, fertile.Despite the registration, it has been a dormant for two winters now, hardy in zone 4a. Out of YABBA DABBA DOO X LOLA BRANHAM.
You cannot get lost going in this direction. A late bloomer, Compass Rose starts 4-5 weeks after mid-season, like its parent, After Awhile Crocodile. Light rose with a darker rose band, yellow-cream throat. Striking in the late season. (After Awhile Crocodile x seedling)
Margo says: Ooh, it's lined out and has good branching and tons of buds!
Murphy, '06 - 41" M 5.5" dor.dip. Red bitone, complex color pattern and edge color. Excellent parent for patterned and complex color patterned kids. Long blooming, good bud count.
5.5" open-form blooms with a complex color pattern. A red bitone, with a wide tan to cream edge, complex red eye, waxy green throat and yellow midribs. Two to three branches and 19 buds. Pollen fertile with dormant, blue-green foliage. Proven parent for patterns.
Parentage: Red Rain X (Chesapeake Crablegs X Red Rain)
Murphy, '05 - 54" La 5.5" Dor. Dip. Clear yellow with red eye above orange and green throat, very tall.
Yellow with a stark, bright red eye, orange throat, green heart. The taller sibling of YOU KNOW WHO, blooms late August, and September here, sometimes into October. Can be seen from across the garden, so I named it as the second in the lighthouse series. Corolla Light is an old lighthouse on the coast of North Carolina. Long bloomer, with 3 branches and 27 buds.
New Tall Cherry was the garden name of this one, and cherry-rose describes the color. Almost rose-red in the morning, fading to pretty rose pink after a very hot day; still blooming at the end of July, it has a long season of bloom. It measures as a true spider (4.8:1), but it is also a graceful, tailored, smooth cascade. It has a cream-gold to green throat and cream midribs. 2-way branching, 15-16 buds. It is named after a waterfall in the Blue Ridge. Parentage unknown.
( Murphy 2014) 46" L 8" Dormant Diploid UF- Crispate
Striking Coral-cranberry Red with darker red eye, and significant dotting or sanding of color near the greenish orange throat. All blooms held erect on stiff also erect scapes way above the strongly dormant blue green foliage. Out of a Benzinger seedling by KIRSTEN MADELAINE BURKEY. 3 branches , 24 buds. Extremely fertile. It has proven to be a great parent for interesting late UF's.
Murphy, 05 - 59" La 6" dor.dip. Reblooms. Every scape is crooked or loops. Golden orange, with red eye. Doubles about 30% to 50% of the time, with good conditions.
Completely distinctive, with 59" scapes, every one with a crook, bend, or even loop. You read that correctly. Nothing like it in your garden! Late bloom and good color, with green throat, complete the package. Scapes do lean, and twist, and some fall, but then grow toward the sun,with 15 buds, and 2 branches. Fertile, parents unknown. Exhibition Judges don't know what to do when this is on the show table.
Extremely clear colored. It has a green and white throat, and good 3-way branching with 25 buds. Fragrant and fertile, out of MARGO REED INDEED by NORTH WIND DANCER. It is completely sunfast here. Double fans, or more. Excellent.
(Reed, 2017) 38” Midseason 7.25” dormant diploid, Unusual Form
This large bright red bloom is very showy, with a lot of action in the curling sepals and flaring, pinched, ruffled petals. It has a slightly darker red eye, light green throat, and 3 branches and 15 buds. It clumps up quickly, and is fertile.
Dancing eye to eye, or nose to nose, you will not have to bend down to look at this warm pink exotic bloom. 3-way branching, and sturdy scapes support the blooms that are nicely ruffled. This one brings flamingo pink color into the very tall group of daylilies. Fertile both ways.
Truly standing above the crowd, Dances with Giraffes is at least 5 feet tall when established. The large blooms cascade and curl down from the tall scapes, golden yellow with a rose-peach blush eye above a green throat. It is registered as an unusual form/cascade. Difficult to set a pod, but the pollen is good. This makes a statement in the garden!
This one has narrow white, ruffled blooms like snowflakes on tall scapes. Slightly pink cast in the morning gives way to white on the blooms. Not famous for its branching, it has an adequate bud count of 12. The bloom is an open, spokes-of-a-wheel or star form. Unusual Form spatulate. Out of Secretary Sand x North Wind Dancer. Pod and pollen fertile.
(Reed, 2017) 50" M 10", dormant, diploid, 3 branches - 18 buds (Skydiving x Cherry Peacock). UF - cascade. Light lemon-cream/near white with a highly contrasting eye of dark purple; it has cream midribs and a light green throat.
Tall and thin, this bloom is pale with a dark-blood eye to haunt you. The bloom, not the scape, can be a little floppy after a big thunderstorm or overhead watering. But on a quiet morning it is stunning and huge.
Thomas, Dale, '05 32" VL 4.75" Dormant Tetraploid Fragrant Russet orange red with brighter eye. VERY SHOWY. Yellow green throat. FIVE BRANCHES 23 buds.
(Reed, 2018) 38" M 6" dormant, diploid, Unusual Form-cascade.
Dark Hollow is a dramatic, brooding kid from Flight of Orchids. It is a recurved, dark raspberry bloom with a huge dark mulberry-wine band feathering onto the petals. It has "eyelash" lines extending into the green throat from the eyezone, and cream midribs. It is ruffled, and has nice 3-way branching (21 buds). Grows well and sometimes reblooms. Pollen and pod fertile.
Parentage: (seedling x Flight of Orchids)
(Murphy, 2013) 39" ML 7" dormant, diploid, extended; Unusual form - cascade
(Spiral Galaxy x Just Jessie) 4 branches, 25 buds
Lavender Red Cascade, darker band, with very large cream and green throat, cream midribs, and cream edge. Named for our famous dog and friend, Davey. Check out the image under More Info - this one has just a mass of blooms, branches, buds, and strong scapes. It blooms heavily for 3 to 4 weeks, with every day a show. The highest branching and bud count of my 2013 intros.
Bennett, F., '98 - 21" EM 3.5" sev.dip. Round rose/red little one. Bud Bennett passed away a few years ago. His diploid round and/or ruffled intros are joy in the Virginia- Maryland area. He never used the internet to sell daylilies, and mainly only has local distribution.
If you are interested in a collection of 5 or 6 of his, let me know and I will give you great plants at a good price with the intent of wider distribution. Don't expect any spiders!
(Reed, 2019) 36" EM 6" dor., dip.
Deep lavender pink fading to lighter lavender pink on hot days, with dark purple veins. Recurved, ruffled form with good substance. Green throat. It has a small purple multi-ring eye with big white arrowheads outside the eye on all segments. Deep 3-way branching, 26 budcount; fertile both ways. Parentage: (Flight of Orchids x Faulkner seedling).
Desperate House Cats (Clement, 2010)
height 36 in.(91 cm), bloom 7.5 in.(19 cm), season MLa, Dormant, Diploid, 20 buds, 4 branches, Unusual Form Crispate, Pinkish lavender, white edge, white watermark green throat. ((Damsel in Distress × Wilson Spider) × Purple Corn Dance
Copied from AHS Database. This flower is very reliable and has proven to be a good parent. It blooms for a long time in the late garden.
I have great future intros from it. Thank you Bret!
(Murphy, 2018) 28” E 6” dormant, diploid, Unusual Form-cascade.
Rich deep red-purple with large green to cream throat. The throat shape is sharply pointed, radiating out onto the tepals. It has light veining. This is a reliable and consistent early bloomer with up facing flowers on a shorter plant. Quite showy with the contrasting throat. I have some very interesting seedlings from Devil's Chimes. 3 branches, 15 buds
Parentage: (Rose F. Kennedy x Cabernet Cabaret)
Bright, clear red with strong green throat pattern extending halfway out the tepals, split with a striking cream midrib on tepals. 3 branches, 20 buds. Unusual form cascade. This daylily has extremely bright red and very deep green for a vivid contrast seen across the garden. Very sunfast for us, up to the mid 90's at 7pm. Long bloom season, and very fertile both ways. The name comes from my favorite place to hike and rock climb in Virginia.
Sold out, but the sibling, Uncle Sams Cut is available for a lower price. It is just as showy.
(Rose F. Kennedy x Snooks Harville/BJ Crichton selected seedling)
This seems to be a breakthrough in RFK kids- fast growth, coupled with color that holds well in the afternoon summer sun.
Murphy '07 - 48" Emre 7.5" Dor dip twisted crispate UF Ext frag. Clear cherry with green throat, light edge. Bud builder with very long bloom season. Named for the man that accused me of this, leaving out the last word!
36" MLa 6.5" dormant diploid. Bright rose pink with cream to white midribs and edges on petals and sepals, giving a striped effect. The throat is gold with olive deep in the throat. 3 branches, 20 buds. From a cross of (Fossil Record x Foxy Loxy). Stands out in the garden! Fertile both ways.
(Reed, 2015)
46" MRe 6.5" dormant, diploid 3 branches, 20 buds Unusual Form – Cascade
(Catapult Sam x Cherry Peacock)
Dark red cascade with black-red eye extending out onto the petals; large green throat merging into the eye. Classy and sultry. Pollen and pod fertile. Still in bloom in early August.
