Apricot self, darker in the throat. Sunfast color lightens on very hot afternoons toward peach. Tall for a double, with a long bloom season. Reliable rebloomer here. Fertile both ways and has great uf double kids. 95% double. 2 branches, 16 buds. Parentage: ((Crooked x Zada Mae) x Peggy Jeffcoat)
Only one available for 2020.
Betscher '38 - 24" Ere dor.dip.frag.ext. Very early cute yellow orange trumpets. Usually the first to bloom in our garden. in 2018, after a long and cold winter, it bloomed on May 3.
Murphy, '05 - 38" EERe 5.75" dor.dip. Cute very early butter yellow spider with feathered red eye.
Butter yellow spider, feathered red eye, gold throat, extended bloom. 4.43:1 spider ratio. This colorful flower, with blue green hard dormant foliage, starts blooming before STELLA DE ORO here. Parentage unknown.
This is a very reliable plant, problem free here, and consistently early bloom.
Reed 2011 38" M 8" dormant diploid. Light rose pink
With a "lipstick" rose-red band and lime green throat. There is a barely-discernible watermark on the sepals, which may be important for pattern breeding. Out of (Crystalline Entity x Nathan Sommers).
Fertile both ways. We have found this to be a truly excellent parent of both pastels with bright eyes and patterns.
Reed, 2006 - 38" M 7" dor.dip. Black ruffled spider, sunfast
This 4.1:1 ratio spider is a solid black, ruffled star with a green throat. It is taller and more spidery than its parent, Chief Black Hand. It is very sunfast, holding its color well on 98 degree days. The finish on the bloom is velvety and satiny. 2-way top branching, 15 buds. Fertile both ways.
This rare tet intro from Jim is a polychrome blend of pink, lavender, and orange, with a large double gold edge. It is a variable double and single at about 50%, but it does not have complete doubling all over except on occasion. It seems to double more with extra water and fertility. In either case it does not look like any daylily that I have seen. There are very few daylilies that bloom in our garden as late as this, and only a few tets. ( Look at the image- no plants in bloom around it.) It is out of (SANDRA ELIZABETH X GREAT WHITE) EDGY X FREEWHEELIN Fertile, 3 branches, 20 buds Very Limited.
Murphy, '07 - 16" EMRe 5.5" dor.tet. Pink/rose bitone, green-yellow throat.Bubbly gold edge, reblooms a lot here.
Bet you never thought you would see me introduce an edged full formed tet! EDGY has been a hit with its bubbly gold edge that flashes metallically in the sun. A pinkish red to rose bitone, with both green and yellow throat, red eye, and rose veins. This quite short 16" plant is perfect for the front of the border. The rebloom scapes just keep coming on this hard dormant. One branch and 13 buds. Fertile both ways.
Parentage: (IDA'S MAGIC x ADMIRAL'S BRAID) X STARTLE
Reed, 2003 - 32" M 6" dor.dip. Purple spidery with black-purple velvety eye, green throat. The latest and showiest in the Eggplant series. Jim's favorite.
Shocking Red Spider with a green throat and a chartreuse midrib. Rain Resistant red, sunfast at 98F at 7pm. Spider Ratio 5/1. Moderate Bud Builder. 3 branches, 19 buds, but more late in the season.
Parentage: TNT x WIRED. Very Fertile, good parent for sunfast red spiders.
First of all, this one is tall and has tremendous branching. Yellow curled or twisted blooms with a light reddish band. Light fragrance, sunfast and rainfast. It is an improvement on ELI MURPHY in terms of color and bloom presentation. Normally has 5 way branching. Normally has 30 buds. Sometimes goes to 6' tall, with 50 buds. Out of ELI MURPHY by MONSTER MAGIC. Fertile, very long blooming, sometimes a spider. It increases well! Double fans
Murphy, '07 - 78" Vla 6" dor.dip. Very tall, well branched, high bud count. Gold blooms, red band. Vigorous, fast grower, blooms for months.
ELI MURPHY is the tallest and most vigorous daylily I have introduced. Definitely a back of the border plant, standing over 6' tall, and up to 7' tall, with 6 to 10 branches and 42 to 80 buds. This late to very late daylily blooms continuously for 7 to 10 weeks, with classically formed gold blooms with a red orange band. The scape diameter is huge, to hold up the stout scapes. Fertile both ways, breeds giants. Margo and Jim both have future intros from this giant. Pictured is a single fan plant!! Can't seem to keep it in stock.
Clear light yellow with reddish lavender and charcoal pattern. Ruffled edge, chartreuse throat, and blue green foliage. Consistent bloom, strong scapes, sunfast to the high 90’s. One of my best and most used pattern parents. Some patterns have poor plant habits, but not this one! Out of Mad Jacky by a Faulkner seedling. Fertile.
(Emmerich, 2007) 32" MRe 8" evergreen tet. very fragrant. Lavender Pink with multi-patterned lavender violet eye and edges. We really like this plant, it is hardy and grows well here. Out of the many of Karol's that we grow, this is our favorite. It is an excellent parent for edged narrow patterned kids. Vigorous. Excellent!
Stout Medal Winner!
Not all Stout Medal Winners do well for us. This one does. It is also very reliable through zone 5, at least.
Lavender bitone with purple eye, with large cream ruffled edge and cream midribs, dark veins on petals, green throat, sunfast to 100 degrees F. 3 branches, 18 buds. Unusual form cascade. Flouncy ruffles. The hotter it is the better it looks! I have several siblings to this and all seem to be very long bloomers and have quite fancy edges. This is a diploid and has some of the best cream edging that I have seen in a dip. Fertile, period. Kids can be patterned, double, edged, or streaked.
Reed, 2005 - 40" Mla 7" dor.dip. Black purple with black eye, green throat, UF pinched crispate. Named for Margo's middle son Stephen, this plant performs away, reliably, every year.
Very eye-catching and different! Cream to light tan in the morning, with a light purple jagged eye pattern. Tiny purple edge on the petals, chartreuse throat, and sunfast to 100F. On hot days it turns cream. 3 branches plus terminal, and about 27 buds. Vigorous, fertile. Out of GREY WITCH by a Jack Carpenter patterned seedling. Excellent parent for unusual patterned kids.
Back in stock after selling out badly. Distinctive.
EYE AM (Murphy 2016) 32” EE 6.5” SEV Dip, 3 branches 16 buds, UF Cascade
Shocking eye is what I think of most on this intro. The base color is peach to tan but then has a large reddish purple eye covering most of the bloom. It also has a ruffled cream edge, veined tepals, dark green throat, and chartreuse midribs. It comes from patterned breeding and has the best strongly eyed and patterned kids of any of our seedlings. Fertile both ways. Seedling by Seedling with Faulkner and Carpenter genetics. Foliage damage here in the spring, but recovers well. I suggest only zones 6-9.
(Murphy, 2019) 49" L 6.5" dormant diploid, UF – cascade
Pink to salmon pink with green throat and cream midribs. Very recurved, with out facing blooms. Very strong , tall scapes. Ample 4 way branching with 25 buds. Blooms 2 months here, starting in late July. Virtually sunfast here. Parentage: (Last Chance For Romance x Thank You Dad). Fertile both ways.
( Murphy 2014) 11"! EM 45" SEV Tet UF Cascade and Spider
GIANT BLOOMS!
They say bigger is better. At 11", this flower can be seen a long way away. Coral red with lighter edges, chartreuse throat, and excellent presentation facing to the side, not down or up. Parentage is : (SAILORS WARNING x Double spider seedling) X( RED SUSPENDERS x Different Double UF seedling). 2 branches, 13 buds. Pollen fertile only
(Reed, 2015)
42" EM 7" dormant, diploid 2 branches, 14 buds Unusual Form – Cascade
(Casey at the Bat x Foxy Loxy)
Bright yellow with a sharp cherry-red feathered eye and green to yellow throat; Elegant long cascade form. Named after our UVa astronomy observatory near here. Still in bloom in early August. Pollen fertile; pod difficult.
This is a very "fetching" ruffled salmony-rose pink with a slight watermark, and lighter colors on the edges and ruffles; green throat and cream midribs. 3 branches, 18 bud count. Unusual form cascade. A great bright color in the mid-late to late garden, it is still blooming into August.
Parentage: (Peacock Curls x Heavenly Curls) x (Fossil Record x Foxy Loxy)
Murphy 08 6" L 37" Dormant diploid Reddish Lavender with lemon throat, lemon midrib, and purple eye. A Cascade Unusual Form that starts Late, fragrant, ext., with three branches and 17 buds. It is out of AFTER AWHILE CROCODILE by LOLA BRANHAM, and is fertile both ways. Good parent for lates in many colors. It blooms in August and sometimes September here, with lots of blooms open at the same time. Very Showy!
Grovenstein, '85 - 28" M 5." dor.tet. Bright, sunfast, narrow red tet. Good parent, great plant. When it is 100 degrees, this plant is the brightest red in the garden until sunset. At dawn, this plant is the brightest red in the garden. Because it is old does not mean that it shouldn't be in every garden for this reason.
Murphy, '05 - 48" EERe 6.75" dor.dip. Narrow, 3.98:1 blooms, red, with darker watermark, green heart. Very long bloom with instant rebloom.
Red with a darker red watermark, gold throat, green heart. There are very few dormant reds that bloom EE. This great flower just misses the spider ratio at 3.98:1. With instant rebloom, this is in bloom for 7 weeks, blooming June 2 - July 21st in 2014. It rebloomed in November too!
A wonderful feathered raspberry eye on a peachy cream background, completed by an orange throat. This long blooming cultivar has 4-way branching with 21 buds, perfect for shows. Very hardy here, out of ISLE OF DREAMS by WILD HORSES. It is fertile, and a good parent for cascades with eyes.
height 29in (74cm), bloom 6.5in (16.5cm), season M, Semi-Evergreen, Diploid, 18 buds, 2 branches, Spider Ratio 4.17:1, Fuchsia hot pink blend with deep rose eye and cream midribs above green throat. (sdlg X Wildest Dreams)
Reed, 2005 - 40" M 6" dor.dip. UF Lavender with purple eye, green throat
One of my favorites! This unusual form (crispate) features both the rolled sepals and the patterned, dark purple feathered eye on ruffled petals. This is the best of a number of seedlings out of a Jack Carpenter seedling. The blooms have good substance, and the plants make large fans. Fertile both ways. A scape of this cultivar won best unusual form in the Richmond (RADS) flower show in 2005, until it was disqualified for being registered the same year.
This daylily has multiple time zones appearing in the throat. The bloom is a heavily ruffled, muted orchid-lavender purple with a green throat. The eyezone usually shows a pattern with various amounts of multi-colored rings, reflecting its parentage from a Bob Faulkner seedling. It is about 20% polymerous. It has 3 branches and 14 buds. Pod and pollen fertile. Out of Sky Over Schuyler x seedling.
(Reed, 2014) 45" M 6.5" dormant, diploid uf crispate
This unusual form (crispate) is hot & dark burnt red orange with a gold throat radiating out into the red band on the petals. Tall, with branching (3) and good bud count, this is a vigorous daylily that puts on a show, and glows in the evening sunset garden. It has been a garden favorite for a while, and just like the real flying squirrels that get into our attic, it cannot be denied.
Black purple with a black band, chartreuse throat, and ruffled edges; diamond dusted. Unsually sunfast for a dark color and a sea of blooms in the late season. Fertile. (Don't Know Jack x Chief Black Hand) The only cultivar with this parentage, and an excellent parent. Hard Dormant. Excellent grower and heavy bloomer.
Parent of some of my current and future intros. Has proven to be an excellent parent for dormant, sunfast, dark colors.
FOGGY BOTTOM (Reed, 2016) 56” M 6” dormant, diploid, 3 branches 24 buds, UF cascade
Foggy Bottom is one of the oldest neighborhoods in DC, a mysterious low area near the Potomac River, where the State Department resides (who knows what goes on there). The daylily is a secretive purple, with a light green to white throat radiating out onto the petals and tepals until it merges into the grape color midway. The blooms are on tall, nicely branched scapes, and recurve to display the blending of fog and darkness. It is from a cross of PURPLE ARCHITECTURE x JUST JESSIE. Pod and pollen fertile. $100
(Murphy, 2019) 34" E 7" dormant diploid, UF – cascade
Strong red with shocking green throat. Blooms for over 2 months here. Every visitor comments on the color. 3 branches, 20 buds. Sunfast to 95, with excellent drought and wet weather tolerance. Very fertile and an excellent parent. Won best seedling at RADS show. Parentage: (Green Throated Robin x Rose F Kennedy). Sorry, Sold Out for 2020!
(Murphy, 2019) 27" EM 6" Semi-evergreen, diploid, Polymerous 95%
Lemon to blonde self, sunfast, with a long bloom season and rebloom. Almost always a Poly in our garden. 3 branches and 18 buds. Somewhat pod fertile, fully pollen fertile. Good parent for high percentage Polys. Parentage: (Quad Quiddity x Carolina Flying Poly Possum).
Sold Out for all of 2020.
This large purple near-spider is held on very stiff scapes. It has a black band and lemon throat, instant rebloom, and is very close to sunfast. It is an EMO, CMO, and extended, so, basically always open. Two branches and and 26 buds, with a 5 week bloom season here. Out of GREY WITCH by BLACK ICE. Pollen fertile. Sibling to ZERO TO SIXTY. Excellent parent for sunfast blacks.
Many people are finding that this is an award worthy plant. I have no modesty in saying that I think so too. Just striking, and with excellent plant habits.
This dark red star is named in honor of Fred Benzinger, who was a mentor to many in this area. It is out of two late Benzinger seedlings, and carries a lot of those famous Benzinger characteristics of toughness, good scapes, and carefree culture. It is somewhat old fashioned looking up close, but from a distance is one of the best reds in the garden, with yellow throat, yellow midribs, and lots of blooms. 5 branches, 34 buds, strong bud-builder, very sun-resistant, and in bloom until September. Very fertile and a good parent for very late reds.
(Murphy, 2020) 24" EM 7" dormant, diploid; 4 branches, 20 buds, UF cascade
Parentage: ((Incessant x Just Jessie) x Appalachian Trail)
Rich, clear pink cascade with rose veins, and a green throat. Won best seedling in the Richmond show. Very heavy bloomer and can have many more buds with good culture. A rare, front of the border plant from Jim! Very fertile and an excellent parent with 3 future intros from it. Very sunfast.
(Huben, 2009) 34" E 3.5" dormant, diploid. 25 buds, 4 branches. We love this plant! It has dark scapes and buds, creamy round blooms, and excellent performance.
(Margo Reed Indeed x Monacan Trail) 2 or 3 branches, 30 buds
Cream to white ruffled cascade with green throat and chartreuse lines extending on both sides of the midrib 3". High performing, quite tall cream to near white. Sunproof and rain resistant substance, with a quite long bloom period. Pod difficult, pollen fertile. Not many whites have a great plant supporting the blooms, but this one does; vigorous, branched, tall, and strong.
(Reed, 2018) 46" EM 6.5" dormant, diploid, Unusual Form.
Garden Fairy is a dark rose pink with lighter pink ruffled edges, and has a watermark and green throat. It is a narrow form, cascading and pinching. This is the seedling known as "Reedling 22" which was seen at the AHS National Convention in 2017 at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens Region 3 Hybridizers’ Bed. It won best seedling. It has excellent 4-way branching and a bud count of 30. It often presents multiple blooms open per scape. Pollen and pod fertile, it is a good breeder.
The parentage is (purple seedling x (Scarlett’s Web x North Wind Dancer)). A favorite here.
(Murphy, 2020) 46" L 8.5" dormant, diploid; 7 branches, 37 buds; UF-Cascade.
Parentage: ((Running Late x Jim's Evil Grin) x August Snow)
This is an amazing cream to white cascade with a green throat in the morning, and whiter petals and more yellow throat in the evening. Tremendous branching and budcount, which will be higher than registered with good culture. Starts late and blooms a long time. Margo’s favorite, but it is mine, mine, Ha Ha! Slightly pod fertile, very pollen fertile, excellent parent.
***Sold out for this year, sorry. Jim ***
