PIG LATIN (Reed, 2016) Fall
40” M 6.5” dormant, diploid, extended bloom; 3 branches, 20 buds. UF – Cascade.
Parentage: (Sumerduck x Nathan Sommers) x (Casey at the Bat x Foxy Loxy)
Bright and happy clear rose pink with darker rose red eye and green throat. The bloom has
cream midribs and is ruffled and recurved. Fertile both ways. Stands out!
Dbl fan $100.00

(Reed, 2013) 32" MRe 7.5" dormant, diploid, extended bloom; Unusual Form – Cascade

Pure color is the main feature of this cultivar. The cool, blue-ish dark pink stands out in the garden like a beacon. Out of Crystalline Entity, it has a color value that is rare. The branching and bud count are not outstanding, but the large blooms and re-bloom make it a performer. Graceful, tightly ruffled blooms. Pod and pollen fertile.

Double fans.

Reed, 1996 - 42" EM 7" sev.dip. Spider. Dark purple with lemon throat. HM One of Margo's most excellent plants, which grows well from zone 4 through Fl and CA zones 9. Great in shows and in the garden. Excellent parent for dark purple, high energy kids. One original parent came from Bud Bennet's gift of a plant that was TOO NARROW for him!

(Reed, 2013) 45" M 6" dormant, diploid, extended bloom; Unusual form – Cascade

Rich grape purple recurves into a cascade, with a blue-ish lavender watermark and white midribs. Occasional color breaks add to the excitement! 3 branches and 30 buds. Pollen fertile. (Planet Max x Skinwalker)

Double fans.

PLAYPAL (Murphy 2016) 45” ML 7” Dormant Dip, 3 branches 31 buds, UF Cascade
A standout in the garden for 3 years because of the very appealing, unusual color that is hard to photograph or describe. Red to violet tepals, with some purple thrown in, and a muted darker eye. Lighter ruffled edge, dark yellow throat, and prominent veining. Very rapid growth, sunfast to the low 90’s here. Can be seen across the garden because of the unusual color. Out of EVIL GNOME by NEGATIVE IMAGE. Fertile both ways and is a parent of patterned kids. $70

(Reed, 2017) 38" EM 7.5" dormant, diploid, 3 branches - 21 buds (Flight of Orchids x Earth Jewels) UF - cascade.
Soft lavender cascade with large plum-purple eye bleeding out onto the petals, has a green throat.

This luscious exotic is plum-beautiful colors. Plumbum is the latin word for lead, and is the name of a duckling paperweight that has traveled around our family for 60 years, made by my father in 1939 in engineering grad school at U. Michigan!

Couturier, G. '98 - 38" Mre 7.5" sev.dip. Fragrant UF Pale cream pink, golden eye, fades to white

(Murphy, 2017) 37" EM 7" dormant, diploid, 3 branches - 20 buds (Smoke Scream x Carolina Flying Poly Possum) Polymerous 95%.
Light pink cream with a lavender eye, chartreuse throat, and lemon colored pollen. This poly seems to be a favorite of all of our visitors. Visible from across the garden. Most blooms are very consistent and almost every bloom is a poly in our garden. Gives great poly kids. Pod fertile only.
$90 for double fans. Limited and likely to sell out.

Excellent poly, very reliable.
Not registered as a rebloomer, but I had two sets of rebloom on some plants this year. Would probably be a good rebloomer south of here.

(Reed, 2019) 34" EM 6.5" dor., dip. UF crispate-cascade
Peach-cream parchment with big dark black-purple feathered eye reaching far out on the segments with a tiny purple edge on ruffled petals. It usually has pinched sepals and curling, cascading petals. 3 branches and 12 buds. Stunning in the garden, and very important in our breeding program. It doesn’t show a pattern, but contributes to pattern breeding. Fertile both ways. Named after a physicist wizard in the DiscWorld series of Terry Pratchett. Parentage (Flight of Orchids x Pattern Maker)

(Gossard, 2010)

height 33in (84cm), bloom 10in (25.5cm), season M, Rebloom, Dormant, Tetraploid, Fragrant, 22 buds, 4 branches, Huge pink self above green throat. ((Love Goddess X Webster's Pink Wonder) X Tet. Dallas Star)

Monster sized blooms, monster sized scapes, good branching. Great show flower.

(Sobek, 1984) 37" La 5.25", Dormant, Diploid, Gold orange self.
(Cartwheels X Burning Daylight)
This is a champion bud builder, right up there with BARBARA. In bloom from midseason to frost. Very bright color.

(Murphy 2011) 61" EM 7" Dormant diploid, U F Cascade

Named for a cool mountain in the Shenandoah Valley. Bud Builder.

Very tall lemon cream cascade with green throat, ruffled edge, and creped texture. Early morning opener, and extended bloomer, blue green foliage, and strong scapes. 100% sunfast. 2 branches and 21 buds. Blooms 5-6 weeks here. Fertile, out of MONACAN TRAIL by JUST JESSIE. We recently saw plants of this cultivar well grown by John Rice with 4 way branching and high bud count. In bloom on September 15th here, this year. Tall!
Has bloomed for 14 weeks here several years. Excellent bud builder in good conditions.

Reed, 2006 - 40" Mla 6" dor.dip. Dark purple spidery with excellent branching and bud count

Another in my "architecture" series of fabulously well-branched cultivars. The bloom is a nice ruffled dark "Trahlyta" purple, but with scape performance! It has a green throat. It joins Prosaic Architecture (pink) and Orchid Architecture (orchid bitone) in the section devoted to breeding better performing plants. 3-5 way deep branching, 25 - 50 buds. Fertile both ways.

Wetzel, '05 - 24" EMRe 4" Lemon yellow self, 75% polytepal blooms I can't say enough about this poly. It always looks good, always reliable, always reblooms, and usually produces poly blooms. Most poly's do not poly well in our garden. This one does. Excellent parent of polys for both Don Herr and myself. Most of it's kids rebloom.

(Reed, 2012) 40" M 7" dormant, diploid.

Peach pink with raspberry rose eye zone, large intense green throat. Petals recurve, sepals roll and quill and sometimes stick straight up! 4-way branching and 24 buds, this is tall and heavily covered with blooms at clump strength. Clean colors and striking form. One of several good ones from a cross of Peacock Curls x Heavenly Curls. Fertile.

( Murphy, 2012) 46" M 6" Dormant Diploid UF Cascade Extended

The color is very different - clear raspberry, with apricot throat and cream midrib. It has ruffled recurved petals edged in pink to cream. The color can be seen as different from across the garden. "Jewel-Like" is what Margo calls it. 3 branches, 26 buds. Very special.

Parentage: MARGO REED INDEED by HEAVENLY CURLS. Fertile, good parent.

Double fans

Murphy, 08 - 40" EM 7" sev. Dip. Veined reddish lavender white midrib, cream edge

Finally a nice cultivar from Lola Branham and Skinwalker, a nearly impossible cross! This large lavender to reddish lavender bloom is complicated, with heavy veining, striking white midrib, cream edge, purple band, and chartreuse throat. It can be a UF, or a spider on some blooms, but is not registered as either. Always different, and always good. Fertile, sometimes Ethereal ( hence the name) .

We finally had enough of this one to have a clump again. What a joy to behold. Buy it at this new low price and in 3 years you will have a clump and enjoy it too!

42" MLa 7" dormant, diploid, Unusual Form

Brightest, clear red Unusual Form - Crispate. Very sunfast. Every bloom is a little different shape. All tepals extend slightly forward from center. Completely distinctive. 6 branches, 47 buds! And it is a bud-builder. Expect 2 months of bloom under good conditions. This year started bloom 6/20 and will bloom until late August. Out of Stretch by TNT.

Reed, 2004 - 42" La 6" dor.dip. Late up-facing red, good branching

The image shows fairly well just how saturated and bright a red this is. If you want red in August, try this one.

(Murphy, 2015) 40" La 7" dormant diploid

Very dark red and black blend with cream midribs and edges, chartreuse throat, red stamens and pistil, sunfast. 4 branches, 30 buds. Unusual form cascade. From my line of sunfast dark flowers, this one is quite late here and blooms until September some years. Fertile, reliable, strong scapes, long blooming, hard dormant.

((Eggplant Escapade x Eggplant Ecstasy) x Chief Black Hand)

(Murphy, 2010) 39" EMRe 10" semievergreen, diploid extended, EMO, Spider

This absolutely huge, curly red spider has a chartreuse throat. It has two branches, 17 buds, and a long bloom season. Has proven to be one of the showiest plants in the garden. Pollen fertile, it is out of BRILLIANT IDEA X KIRSTEN MADELINE BURKEY. Very long and narrow blooms that are striking, coupled with brilliant color.

(Murphy 2011) 30" M 6" SEV diploid Unusual Form Cascade

What a surprise from this one - it opens at midnight with dark red tepals and huge dark green throat, and as the day progresses, it reflexes or curls back until mainly the throat shows. The tepals curl and re-curl. Cream edge, yellow midrib. Sunfast at 100F, Opens well at 50F. Fertile, out of (YABBA DABBA DOO X DEVILS ADVOCATE) x NATHAN SOMMERS With this parentage, it might not be hardy in zones 4 and under, but completely hardy here with no winter damage. Image taken at 9 pm on a 100 degree day. How does the average daylily look then? 2017- I have really valued this sunfast red that holds all day. Does well in southern Georgia and in New York. New lower price because it grows fast!

(Murphy, 2010) 40" E 8" semi-evergreen tetraploid, ext. 2 branches, 15 buds.

Extra large reddish lavender with purple veins, chartreuse throat and yellow midribs with a narrow cream edge, diamond dusted. On cool mornings this flower starts purple. Sunfast, fertile. Tet (Cameroon Night x Waiting in the Wings)

(Murphy 09) 41" ML 7" Dor Dip Cascade Unusual Form, ext., extremely clear-colored lavender bitone with purple veins on hot days.

This bloom is wide open on 50F mornings and sunfast at 100F. It starts blooming ML and blooms for over a month until mid to late August here. It has a lemon throat, with green heart, cream edge, and cream midribs. Two Branches, 16 buds, Fragrant. My third intro from MARGO REED INDEED by NORTH WIND DANCER, joining PANAMA PINK and CRUISE CONTROL. It makes its place in the garden with steady, consistent performance in all weather. Fertile, limited.
Back in stock for 2020- very showy.

(Reed, 2011) 50+" MLa 8" dormant, diploid, Unusual Form

Exotic Ruby red, with a darker red eye and a large yellow-to-green throat, this bloom is a huge cascade Unusual Form. It can easily reach 60", with 2-3 way branching and a bud count of about 16. This one stands up to thunderstorms and impulse sprinklers, but not recommended for high wind areas. It’s tall, huge form would tempt the winds! It is a variable form (would measure larger but it recurves and cascades), ruffled and curling. Holds up to sun and 100 degree temps fine. Parentage: (“ASD" seedling x Kirsten Madeline Burkey).

(Reed, 2015) 42" M 6.5" dormant diploid

This will turn heads! It is a twisty rose red with green throat, lighter edges, and white midribs. An Unusual Form crispate, it has excellent substance and movement! 3 branches, 18 buds. Fertile both ways.

(Peacock Curls x Cherry Peacock).

Murphy, '05 - 38" Mla 6.5" dor.dip. Outrageous clear lemon, radical UF, green throat. This has proven perfectly hardy in both zones 3 and 9 ( west). One of my favorites because it is always perfect, every day, with excellent budcount and growth. Out of SUNNY SON by SPIDER MIRACLE. Fertile, proliferates, fragrant.

This outrageous clear light yellow to chartreuse flower is a radically shaped crispate unusual form. It is quite variable as well. It has a large grass green throat with very ruffled, lighter edged petals. The sepals are so rolled that you can't see the edge. It has three branches and 17 buds, with instant rebloom, for a long season. It proliferates heavily. It is dormant, and has famous parentage, carrying genes for ruffled edges, red, chartreuse, and yellow, ensuring that it will be in demand by hybridizers. Award Winner.

Parentage: SUNNY SON X SPIDER MIRACLE

Reed, 1994 - 34" EM 7" dor.dip. Purple grey with purple-black eye, now an unusual form HM

(Murphy, 2019) 39" MLa 6.5" dormant diploid, UF - Crispate/cascade.
Gorgeous clear red black color with a darker band, sometimes a bitone, with green throat and cream midribs. It blooms heavily for up to 2 months, and sometimes reblooms. 4 branches and 19 buds. Sunfast here to 94F. Fertile both ways, and makes very dark dormant UF kids. Parentage – (Out To Get You x Cabernet Cabaret).
This plant and Out To Get You are producing my best darkest, sunfast future intros.

Murphy, '06 - 49" Vla 7.5" dor.dip. Spider. Yellow pink blend, bitone, lav. Edged sepals.

There are not many bitone spiders with yellow-to-pink petals and yellow-to-lavender edged sepals. Actually, this is the only one, to my knowledge. Very late dormant diploid, huge waxy green throat. Tall at 49", very fragrant, and diamond-dusted. Base color is a yellow-pink blend with stippled pink and lavender color on ruffled edges. 4.89:1 spider ratio, fertile both ways. One or two branches, 16 buds, some rebloom. Excellent parent for very lates.
In full bloom in August here.

Parentage: (Benzinger seedling "Racing Stripes" x Yabba Dabba Doo) x Lola Branham

Murphy, '04 - 46" Mre 7" dor. Tet. Dark velvety red, yellow throat, green heart. Sunfast

My first tet introduction was the best of the keepers from a long cross. It won Best Seedling at the 2001 NCDC Flower show on its maiden bloom. It has dark velvety red, with a yellow throat and a green heart, complemented by a small ruffled blackish red edge. It has 2 or 3 branches, and 16 buds in poor culture, and up to 5 way branching and 32 buds in great culture. It is extremely sunfast, like its mom. It is red in the morning and red at night, hence the name. Very fertile both ways. I am using it to breed with narrower evergreen tets to give hardiness and sunfast color.
One of our good customers bought one, then the next year, three more. It is really red. !

Parentage: FIRE FROM HEAVEN X RED SUSPENDERS

(Reed, 2010) 36" EM 5" dormant diploid ext. 4 branches, 20 buds.

An early small gem on well-branched scapes. Soft pink lavender with feathery purple chevrons like gills, lighter ruffled edges, and green to white throat. Unusual Form cascade. (Flight of Orchids x Loch Ness Monster)

(Reed, 2012) 34" M 6" dormant, diploid.

This wickedly ruffled and recurved bloom glows with a golden beach sand color, blending caramel tan, gold, and peach pink. Following in the footsteps of Brown Witch, Grey Witch, and Third Witch, Sand Witch has great plant habits and more graceful form. It has 3-way branching with lots of buds. It was planned to be white (see parentage - all whites) but sometimes one can't pass up the spell of the moment. It is out of (Margo Reed Indeed x Ice Water) x Scandinavia.

Probably should have been mid-late; blooms heavily into August (2016)

Stevens ,'83 - 38" Vla 6" dor.tet. The standard for late bloom and high performance. Yellow. HM, EFA

Murphy, 07 - 39" MRe 6" dor. Dip. Spider - Cherry red, cream edge

I am very proud to introduce this cultivar. It is cherry red with a tan edge in the morning, and as the day gets hot, the midribs and edge bleach to a striking cream. The bloom remains very sunfast, with a chartreuse throat. I registered it with 2 branches and 12 buds, but this fall, it rebloomed with up to 4 branches and 25 buds. It is related to Candy Cane Dreams, and a sibling to several of my light edged reds. Good grower, fertile.

(Murphy 2014) 50" ML 7" Dormant Diploid UF- Cascade, Bitone

Pink, yellow and rose blend with yellow throat, with slight lavender edges. Excellent growth, excellent form and resistant to weather. Named for Margo's most watched tv show. She is gonna kill me for that! Out of MARGO REED INDEED by NORTH WIND DANCER, it is very fertile and a good parent. 4 branches and 23 buds gives it a long bloom season.

(Murphy 2014) 32" ML 6.5" Dormant Diploid Cascade UF

Light lemon cream cascade with light green throat, cream midrib, very heavy bloomer. Completely sunfast, and rain resistant. 4 or more branches and 32 buds, but can have as many as 60 buds. This plant is covered in bloom for about 3 weeks. Out of ((Mountain Top Experience x Rocket Science) x Skinwalker)) x Margo Reed Indeed. Fertile, but difficult for pods. Very consistent in the late July to early August garden here.

Reed, 1995 - 44" EM 7" dor.dip. Spider. Scarlet with lighter edges, gold throat. HM

Goldner, '00 - 72" M 7" dor.tet fragrant, ext. Very tall yellow polychrome that has branches and blooms for a long time. Massive thick scapes look like green cobras coming out of the ground.

(Murphy 2012) 48" Very Late 5.5" Dormant Diploid Cascade

This wide, very recurved bright red has a narrow cream edge, white midrib, and yellow green throat with green heart. It is held tall on strong scapes with 2 branches and 22 buds, and is a moderate budbuilder. It blooms in latest July, August and September here. Out of ( AFTER AWHILE CROCODILE x WHEN I DREAM) x( BARNEGAT LIGHT). It is moderately sunfast, and fertile both ways. In the very late garden, it was Margo's and many others' favorite plant.

Murphy, '05 - 44" MLaRe 5.5" dor.dip. Sunfast purple, black watermark, tiny white edge, yellow throat.

Purple blooms with a black watermark, and a tiny white edge, yellow throat, green heart. This completely sunfast purple has TRAHLYTA as a grandparent, and looks different at 6PM than at 7AM. It starts out purple with a black eye, and changes to greyed purple with a black watermark later in the day. Clayton Burkey, and other hybridizers agreed on its selection on 90F+ afternoons. It blooms a long time, with 2 branches, 19 buds, and rebloom. Hard dormant.

Parentage: EGGPLANT ESCAPADE X EGGPLANT ECSTASY

Reed, 1999 - 34" EM 8" dor.dip .Large clear pink self, green throat, spidery

Roberts, N. '04 36" ML 8" Dormant Diploid Double 6.7/1 spider. Wine Purple self with yellow green throat. This spider is a champion bud builder, sometimes blooming until frost.
I certainly like it and want it to be better distributed. It blooms a long time.

(Reed, 2010) 38" M 6" dormant, diploid Unusual Form-Cascade

This stunning pink/rose/cream pattern is a curling cascade form. Named in memory of a young girl, a town in North Carolina, or a race car designer; I guess we will never know (or all three). The background color ranges from a creamy pink to almost white, and the dark rose-pink eye slips way out on the petals. It has a green throat. It is out of PEACOCK CURLS X HEAVENLY CURLS, a cross that has given many interesting variations. Pod and pollen fertile.

(Reed, 2011) 45" EM 7.5" dormant, diploid, Unusual Form

This light purple cascade with a very green throat began in early June, and is finishing at the end of July (a bud builder!). A cool color, with diamond dusting, it recurves and cascades. 2-way branching with a bud count of about 20. Parentage unknown.

(Reed, 2012) 48" La 5.5" dormant, diploid

Rosy lavender with rose wine eye zone, gold cream throat feathering out onto the eye zone in rays. This tall, rather late daylily has great branching (4-way) and good bud count. It makes a stunning clump with the glowing throat and sunray pattern. It is out of FROZEN MERT X PLANET MAX. Pod and pollen fertile. Good parent!

Murphy, '05 - 30" Vla 5.5" dor.dip. Greyish brown, purple eye, yellow ribs, fast growing, late and unique.

Greyish Brown petals, and sepals, purplish red eye, yellow midribs, prominent veins on petals, orange and yellow throat. This plant was selected for its unique color pattern, perfect foliage, and fast increase, as well as late bloom. There is nothing like it at mid season, much less very late season. It has slender, yet strong scapes with 17+ buds. The name comes from the color of the petals, as well as a more tongue in cheek meaning. Out of a Benzinger seedling by TROPICAL DEPRESSION, it has TRAHLYTA in the background and does color change to some extent. Can bloom for up to 3 months, a bud builder. THE BEST BLUE GREEN DORMANT FOLIAGE IN OUR GARDEN. Extremely resistant to late freezes. Unfazed by as low as 20F when plants are actively growing.

Parentage: Benzinger seedling X TROPICAL DEPRESSION

Hager, '88 - 24" Ere 2.5" ever.dip. Yellow/brown bicolor, black stems! This plant is truly unique and different. Reblooms well here. Hardy here for 15 years. Tiny fans, we ship many as an order.