(Reed 2016) 40" LATE 6" Dormant Diploid, 3 branches 26 buds, UF cascade
Warm dark rose pink with a light green to white throat that blends out onto the petals and sepals; lighter ruffles. Dependable late-blooming, star-shaped cascade with great branching and bud count. Blooms heavily in August, “after” midseason. Out of AFTER AWHILE CROCODILE, but much better color. Pod and pollen fertile. $75
ALICE is a pale lemon cream with a large purple eye and very green throat. The form is Unusual Form cascade with lots of ruffles. Well-branched and 15 buds. It is named after my first grand-daughter, born in London on a Christmas Eve. (Monocacy Summer Mist x Cherry Peacock). Fertile both ways, in short supply.
OK, I have gone over to the dark side: a true spider! Alien Stardust has a 5:1 spider ratio, with all tepals rolling back. The form varies from open star to cascade. So it is a spider, an unusual form, and an extra large bloom (and tall). It has deep 3-way branching with about 24 buds. The basic color is light yellow, with stippling/dusting of rose and a green throat. Stunning light color in the late garden, the size grabs attention. Parentage is: (Kirsten Madeline Burkey x North Wind Dancer). Limited: only about six plants available now.
A clear pink and lavender blend cascade Unusual Form, with a very large green and yellow throat. Cream midribs, narrow ruffled cream edge, and creped tepal surfaces. It has 4-way branching and 30 buds, coupled with reliable rebloom. We regularly see 4 way branched scapes in August and later. Sibling to AMBITION, with a much different color and look, but similar in the rebloom characteristic here in no-rebloom land. Appears to be hard dormant this year. Fertile both ways. Out of SORAYA SELINE by HELGA BJORNERUD BURKEY.
Murphy 2011 45" EMRE 7.5" SEV Diploid Twisted Crispate Unusual Form
Aptly named for its absolute vigor and re-bloom here, this buff yellow with lavender red eye and green throat seems to always be in bloom. The petals and sepals twist and sometimes pinch, and it is very fragrant. It has three branches and 26 buds, with moderate bud building. Out of SORAYA SELINE by HELGA BJORNERUD BURKEY. Pollen Fertile Pod Possible.
In 2023 and 2024, we had an average of 3 reblooms per clump.
Deep grape purple curling cascade. Green throat and light midribs. Very curling and ruffled, this is a Cascade uf but also measures as a true spider. Pod and pollen fertile. Sunfast, delicate scapes. (Planet Max x Brer Rabbits Baby).
Striking for it's curling and size.
(Murphy, 2024) 20” MRe 7” dormant tetraploid
2 branches, 18 buds. Sculpted form. Parentage: (Lemon Fringed Lemons x
Nadine’s Dream)
Cream, yellow, gold, and pink polychrome, ruffled gold edge on petals. It is not often that I introduce a Tet. This one gathers lots of comments. One of the grandkids likes the name. The sculpted ridges seem to hide tunnels in the shadows.
Moderately fertile. Some rebloom. Freeze resistant blue green foliage.
Light golden-yellow/cream with a feathered raspberry-red eye and olive green throat. The bloom is large (8") and has heavy substance; it is an Unusual Form-Cascade.
40" EM 8" dormant diploid. 2 branches and 14 buds but gives a stunning display in the garden. Pollen fertile but pod difficult.
Arterial Blood (Huben, 2011)
height 44 inches (112 cm), bloom 3.5 inches (9 cm), season M, Dormant, Diploid, 27 buds, 5 branches, Brilliant velvety red self with a green throat. HM 2020
We are selling this cute little extremely red daylily because the color really projects across the garden. Tall and small. Well worth the HM award that it received. We should have an image for it soon...
(Murphy 2012) 59" Late 9" Dormant Diploid Cascade UF
I thought about naming this one "stately", because it is very tall, and every bloom is perfect. The cherry red blooms are somewhat wide for a cascade, and reflexed, and have a striking cream midrib. The tepals are ruffled and creped, and have a green throat. A bud builder, with a long bloom season, strong scapes, and promiscuously fertile. Two branches and 20 buds. Sunfast at 97F, wide open at 9pm. Out of (AFTER AWHILE CROCODILE) X ( EGGPLANT ESCAPADE x EGGPLANT ECSTASY)
( Murphy 2014) 42" L 7" Dormant Diploid UF- Cascade
This seems to be my most looked at of the 2014 intros: It is a very light cream color, fading to white with heat, creped and ruffled on tall scapes with tremendous branching and budcount. Even the pistil and stamens are white. It is completely sun-fast and even looks good after dark, showing white in the dusk at 9pm. Out of (MARGO REED INDEED x NORTH WIND DANCER) x THANK YOU DAD. It has 5 branches and 29 buds. Has been known to have 5 blooms open on one branched scape. Pod difficult, Pollen Fertile, excellent parent. Will never win a show award- way too late. Blooming into mid August here.
2017-This has continued to be an amazing plant. 5 branches and up to 32 buds on perfect every day blooms. Superlative parent. I have 9! future intros from it. Blooming today on August 12 in an early blooming season summer. Sunfast, and looks better at 95 than most any daylily in the garden. 2018- Still very good, with 5 way branching. Will bloom for another week, so August 14. 2020- Excellent. Thank you for your interest in this great garden and breeding plant! Jim
Stout, '51 - 66" Mla-Vla 4" dor.dip. Extremely tall, very well branched, high performance, orange/yellow. This cultivar, from 1951, has stood the test of time with the best performance coupled with easy care and great height. It deserves a spot in the back of every garden. Will grow in nearly any condition other than heavy shade. Our main clump is now 4 feet across and does not need dividing!
A cherry-pink blend with cream edges and green throat. It is fertile both ways, and very sunfast. This is an extreme bloomer with 5 branches and 44 buds! Out of (Spiral Galaxy x Clowns in Washington).
Some rebloom here.
Sheets, '65 - 38" Vla 5" dor.dip.frag. Spidery, yellow gold blooms 6-9 weeks until frost.
2017 This year we are having five, six, and seven way branching. Started blooming late July. Will bloom until frost. 9/17/17 Still in full bloom. 10/24/17 still in bloom. 2018- started bloom on August 1.
10/20/19 Still in bloom. 2020- 9/20- In full bloom. Looks great until frost here. 2022- The last plant blooming on original scapes when frozen in late October.
When I think of bud builders, I think of this one, PUMPKIN TIME, and ONE MORE BUD. This one blooms the latest.
Murphy, '04 - 55" MLaRe 7" dor.dip.UF Huge orange and gold cascade with red eye, fragrant, award winning.
This is the one that won best seedling in the National Capital Daylily club flower show in 2003. It is bright orange and gold with huge red eyezone and a gold throat. The plant, scapes, foliage, and flowers are all huge. It bloomed this year from June 30 to October 1. The wide light blue green foliage is winter dormant. Interestingly, the stamens and pistil are orange. The scapes are massive, with 2 to 3 branches and 27 buds. I named it after a great lighthouse on Long Beach Island, off the NJ coast that can be seen a very long distance. You can see this plant in bloom from a long way. It is registered as a ML, but blooms right through Late and into Very Late.
Parentage: Benzinger seedling "BLB/OI" X NUCLEAR MELTDOWN
Outrageously wacky, but really gorgeous! Named in memory of a friend’s dog, this one makes the standard for "exotic" and unusual! Tall branched scapes hold the very large blooms. The color is butter yellow with a large rose-blush band and a lime green throat. The form is ruffled, with the sepals tightly curled in corkscrews or spirals, and the long petals "hanging out" here and there, usually in a graceful cascade. Variable forms add to its charm.
Pollen fertile, pod difficult. Only one available for 2016
Parentage: (Crystalline Entity x Nathan Sommers) x (Scarletts Web x North Wind Dancer)
(Murphy 2011) 16" EE 6" Dormant diploid Unusual Form Cascade
This plant starts blooming before all daylilies except three in our garden, and is in full bloom when Stella starts. It is a pink and cream bitone cascade with green throat. Note, this is a large flower, not your more typical small extra early. It is nocturnal, opening at midnight and closing around 7pm the next day. Gorgeous blue green foliage, HARD DORMANT, 3 branches, 18 buds. Pollen fertile. Out of PINK RAIN DANCE by unknown.
(Reed, 2019) 50" EM 6" dormant, diploid, UF cascade
Cream base with long, feathered, raspberry eye with silver ribs and multi-ring pattern; ruffled petals, green throat. It is tall and has deep 4-way branching with 22 buds, and is fertile both ways. Parentage lost (garden name "Best Unk Pattern" led to name). Great parent for patterns. Very limited stock.
Tomato red blooms with gold throat and green heart. Intriguing burgundy colored blooms and attractive burgundy colored spent blooms. Needs no deadheading. Very sunfast, exceedingly bright and clear color, 4 way branching, 17 buds. Sibling to SKIN AND BONES.
Won best in show at the NCDC show one year on it's first day of bloom for the season. Blooms up to 8 weeks.
2021- Still in bloom August 20, and should bloom until September.
(Murphy, 2024) 38" MRe 6.5" dormant diploid
3 branches, 16 buds. UF Spatulate. Parentage: (Squid Ink x North Garden Chief)
Black red spatulate/cascade with green throat, strong rebloom. Very sunfast. Very black on opening, going to red black purple as the day progresses. Good rebloom. Double rebloom this year, until frost. Fertile, with wonderful sunfast dark kids.
Lavender with a bluish watermark, cream midrib and edge; Diamond dusted. Unusual form pinched crispate. Very sunfast, fertile, and an excellent parent. Won best seedling in the region 3 Hybridizers bed 2009. Excellent garden plant and excellent on the show bench. (Seedling x Far Galaxies)
This cultivar is a lavender and light lavender bitone with bluish band and light jagged banding on the sepals. It is an Unusual Form crispate, with variable crispation and different looks on different days (see images). It has a very green throat, extremely blue green foliage, and is a hard dormant. Long bloom season with 4-way branching and 24 buds. I have not set a pod on it, but it has very fertile pollen and interesting blue eyed and patterned kids.
LATE FREEZE RESISTANT BLUE GREEN FOLIAGE
(Out of a COMPLICATED seedling and STARLIGHT SPLASH).
Bonibrae the Freak (Matthie, 2011)
height 35 in.(89 cm), bloom 7 in.(18 cm), season M, Dormant, Diploid, 32 buds, 4 branches, Unusual Form Crispate-Cascade-Spatulate, Tan orange petals and sepals with dark green throat. (sdlg × Substantial Evidence) ( Copied from AHS Database)
Here, it has 2 to 3 way branching and each bloom stays open two days. It has a waxy green throat and ultra thick substance.
An excellent, proven parent.
Dark black red, sunfast to 95 degrees in our garden. It blooms for 2 months here, with very dark blooms. Fertile both ways, blue green, freeze resistant foliage. Excellent parent for sunfast dark flowers. 4 branches, 28 buds. Parentage: (seedling x Freaky People).
Reed, 1999 - 36" M 6" dor.dip. Spider. Brown with black eye and gold throat HM
This is a classic over performer. It does well in most any situation, a little shady, or poor soil, or out of range of the hose.
(Murphy, 2015)
32" EMRe 4" dormant, diploid 4 branches, 35 buds! Unusual Form - Cascade
(Bo Knows x Faulkner Seedling)
Butterscotch with lavender and charcoal etched and patterned eye, lighter midribs, yellow throat and ruffled edges. This cultivar started blooming June 6, and is still in bloom on rebloom scapes on August 3. Most cultivars do not rebloom here. Out of two very hardy plants. Should make a good show flower. Open early, and sunfast to 95 here. Very fertile both ways. Gorgeous blue green foliage.
2021 Looks great this year! TWO sets of reblooms this year.
This huge grey-lavender with feathered purple eye has a lemon throat. Grey on cold mornings, more lavender on warm days. Fertile both ways, out of DEVILS ADVOCATE X GREY WITCH. Excellent grower. Extra large 8" blooms, two branches with 18 buds. Has proven to be a good parent. My 2018 intro TOXIC TEMPTRESS is out of it.
Big husky plant with big blooms in an unusual color.
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. Note the red buds! Spent blooms are red, so we seldom feel a need to deadhead this one. Out of (It Glows x Lava Stream). Freeze-resistant dormant blue green foliage.
I should have registered this as a rebloomer. 3 years in a row it has rebloomed, in September, when scapes are most welcome.
height 24in (61cm), bloom 7in (18.0cm), season E, Rebloom, Evergreen, Diploid, Polymerous 90%, Heavily ruffled pastel yellow diamond dusted with large soft red eye and white raised midribs above green throat. (Tepaled Teddy X I'm Different)
This has proven to be the classic parent for reliable polys.Don Herr has many introductions from this and I have one.
(Reed, 2021) 55" MLa 6.5" Dormant Diploid, Unusual Form cascade
Tall, deeply ruffled, narrow curling cascade; light purple with large dark purple eye extending out on the petals more than half their length, making a narrow line on the sepals, and with a big green throat. It has 3-way branching, bud count 12. Pod and Pollen fertile.
Parentage: (The Cow Jumped Over the Moon x Scandinavia).
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.
It has some rebloom in good conditions here. 6 way branching on some 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 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, 2021) 45" M 6" Dormant, Diploid, Unusual Form Crispate
Wow! A lot is going on with this flower. Bitone-red/lavender petals and lavender sepals. Complicated color pattern - cream midribs on petals and cream edges on all tepals. It has a watermark, veined petals, and green throat. Flower form is variable, but usually crispate.
Chaos Theory has the best branching of my intros this year and has very erect, strong, strongly branched scapes. Blooms nearly 2 months. 7 branches and 24 buds.
Out of a (Knock Knock sibling x Morpho Butterfly). Fertile.
(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.
(Reed, 2021) 35” Mla 6” dormant, diploid, Unusual Form cascade
Richest, purest deep rose with apple green throat extending out into white with white midribs edged with light rose. Very ruffled. 3-way branching, bud count 20. Slow increaser but makes lots of proliferations. Pod and pollen fertile. Parentage: ((Margo Reed Indeed x North Wind Dancer) x (Peacock Curls x Cherry Peacock))
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)
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.
2022- Magnificent this year, very showy.
(Murphy 2022) 51" L 8" Dormant, Diploid; 5 branches, 27 buds. Unusual Form Cascade and Spider 4.8/1.
Medium red with large gold and light green throat. Cream midribs. Blooms are very twisty and twirly, very sunfast. Strong scapes. Pollen fertile only.
Out of (Stretch by Dan Bachman’s award winning Mascara Snake).
I will be correcting the registration by adding rebloom. An oversight on my part, as it seems to continuously rebloom until frost.
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 9 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.
Two plants available for Fall 2023.
(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).
2020- Clearly continues to impress with perfect form, EMO/CMO, strong scapes, and long bloom period.
2021- Scapes are almost as strong as wooden stakes. Every bloom perfect and held up high.
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.
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!
