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- JP, 2023) 35" ERe 6" Dormant Diploid, UF Cascade
Screaming red with bright green throat, and just a touch of cream midribs showing. Cool dark red stamens. Very long blooming on first scapes, and with some rebloom here through late season. 3 branches and 24 buds in good conditions. Fertile both ways. It has deep green arching foliage all season here.
Out of (Devil's Marbleyard x Ego)
One plant available for Spring 2026.
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.
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.
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.
Has rebloomed here two years in a row, and an additional rebloom in late September.
2021- Rebloom in late September and early October.
( 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
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.
Lavender pink with extremely large chartreuse and cream throat, extending way out on the tepals. Cream midrib on petals.
As the day progresses, the flowers lighten, but are sunfast, and curl markedly.
Strong 30" scapes with 19 buds and lots of rebloom here.
Out of (Desperate Housecats x Thank You Dad).
Sinfully fertile. Kids are curly, with big throats
(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).
(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)
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.
Gorgeous color on even the hottest days of August and into the first few days of September here.
(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 8!!!!!!! future intros from it. Very sunfast.
2021- We have a couple of plants in clumps now and I counted 6 branches on most of the scapes.
Excellent show, garden, and breeding plant.
Parent of She Kissed The Frog, Balderdash,and at least 6 future intros. One of my not so secret hybridizing weapons.
Also a great show plant.
9/24- Sold out for a long time, probably 2026 or 2027. Jim
Veined lavender with reddish-lavender eye, cream-green throat, and lighter edges. It has excellent, well-spaced 5-way branching and 33 buds! It is fertile both ways, sunfast, and blooms a long time. It is out of ((Evil Gnome x Negative Image) x Cartwheel Galaxy).
Second image is at the end of a hot day.
(Margo Reed Indeed x Monacan Trail) 4-5 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.
I have received many positive comments on this cultivar, most from north of 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.
(Murphy, 2024) 43" MLa 6.5" dormant diploid
5 branches, 26 buds. Parentage: (Playpal x Kathryn June Wood)
Red lavender with chalk watermark, cream to light green throat. Ruffled cream edge. Quite an intense and unusual color, seen across the garden. Very sunfast. Excellent branching. Pollen fertile. Crazy looking kids.
(Murphy, 2019) 48" MLa 7" dormant diploid, UF - cascade
Large cream-white with very large green throat, ruffled and creped. Very strong erect scapes with 2-3 way branching and 15- 20 buds. Long bloom season- it bud builds in good conditions, and can be in bloom for 11 weeks. 100% sunfast. Fertile both ways, and an excellent parent. Parentage: ((Eyelash seedling x Give Me Eight) X ( Just Jessie x Magic of Oz)).
In very high demand. Great garden presence, and excellent parent for Jim's future intros.
Parent of Whitewater Rafting, Counting Sheep, and I'll Take Vanilla
Won an Honorable Mention 2023!
2025 excellent performance. I finally have a few to sell.
( Murphy, 2014) 45" ML 7" Dormant, Diploid UF- Cascade
Black Red nearly sun-fast blooms on sturdy ,bullet-proof, drought, wind, rain, sun and root competition tolerant plants. The most stunning part of the plant is the crimson star tiny eye just outside the throat. Hard to photograph, but seems to be there every day, even in the afternoon. Chartreuse throat with line thin midribs just barely there. Out of (EGGPLANT ESCAPADE x EGGPLANT ECSTACY) x CHIEF BLACKHAND. Fertile, 3 branches, 17 buds in spare conditions. HARD DORMANT with BLUE GREEN freeze resistant foliage. Excellent, pod fertile parent of very dark dormant kids.
In the parentage of King Neptune.
(Murphy 2022) 41" ML 6" Dormant, Diploid; 3 Branches, 15 Buds, Unusual Form Cascade
Bright hot red with light green throat, and light green midribs. Curls and twirls, very sunfast. An excellent pod and pollen parent, I have several future intros from it.
Out of (Stretch x It Glows)
(Murphy, 2020) 28" EM 7" dormant, diploid; 2 branches, 14 buds;
Parentage: ((Starlight Splash x sdlg) x Almira Buffalo Bone Jackson)
Striking combination of colors: lemon with etched reddish-lavender eye, bisected with cream midribs, green throat, washed lavender tones as well. Skinny red partial edge. When this is blooming, many people go right to it, over other seedlings. Proliferates heavily. Very fertile. Sunfast to over 90.
Parent of several future intros.
(Murphy 2022) 60" MLRe 8" Dormant, Diploid; 5 branches and 33 buds! Unusual Form Cascade.
Very tall, creamy-tan pink blend with sharp reddish purple eye, yellow throat, and cream midribs bisecting the dark eye. Blooms face out, looking at you. Very sunfast, excellent parent. Fertile both ways, but difficult pod parent.
Has extremely thick, strong scapes, which hold up the numerous blooms. I call them Iron Scapes.
Out of (Stephen Smith x Busy As A)
Proven Hardy in Zone 4 in Wisconsin.
(Murphy 2011) 52" EM 8" Dormant diploid UF Cascade
Cream to light pink with a purple eye and chartreuse throat, cream midrib. Starts blooming early mid-season and bud-builds for a long time. Won Best Seedling, NCDC flower show in 2011. Fertile, sunfast at 102F, opens well at 50F. 3 branches, 23 or more buds. Tall, well branched, and showy!
(Murphy, 2017) 39" MLa 7.5" dormant, diploid, 3 branches - 18 buds (Sport Coupe x Just Jessie) UF - cascade.
Reddish lavender with prominent cream midribs and cream edge; cream-green throat. Ruffled. The hotter the day, the better this one looks. Open very early and closes at 9pm. Fertile both ways and produces kids with excellent branching.
Double or triple fans. HARD DORMANT BLUE GREEN FOLIAGE that is freeze resistant.
This lavender pink cascade with chartreuse and apricot throat has cream midribs and a thin cream edge. The spectacular part of this plant is below the blooms. It has blue-green foliage, strong scapes, 5-way branching, 31 buds per scape. It is out of MARGO REED INDEED X NORTHWIND DANCER. It is very fertile, and a good parent for clear colors. Blooms into late August or September here. VERY GOOD BRANCHING.\
2021- In Full Bloom on August 3.
HULA (Murphy 2016) 48” ML 6” Dormant Dip, 3 branches 30 buds, UF Cascade
This light red blend with pink watermark dances near the top of very strong scapes. It has cream midribs, cream edge, and a green throat, and is a very recurved cascade. Sunfast here, and has a long bloom period, into late August. Out of NEGATIVE IMAGE by a seedling and MARGO REED INDEED. Very fertile, and most kids have patterning.
HARD DORMANT BLUE GREEN FOLIAGE that is freeze resistant.
(Murphy, J.P., 2025 ) 40" M 7.5" Dormant Diploid, Spider and UF -Cascade
Wow! Ruffled cream with green throat extending WAY out onto long tepals. Light green anthers. Very strong scapes hold almost all blooms facing out, toward you. Strong Bud Builder for a long season of bloom.
Parentage: (Green Tea x Garden Ghost), two of my best cream UF’s.
Pollen fertile only, but my, what great children. 2 branches and 21 buds, but more buds after bud building.
(Murphy-JP, 2023) 34" EM Re 5.25" Dormant Diploid, UF Crispate
Complicated colors of pewter lavender with green throat blending to cream white throat, that extends onto tepals. Lavender cream pattern edged purple. Veined and ruffled. Distinction in flower pattern and form makes this one unique in the garden. There is no question that this is Imperial Topaz and it will not get mistaken for another flower! Absolutely wacky and interesting children. Fertile both ways. Blooms long and slow, not all at once, and reblooms well here, especially in August and September. 1 branch and 12 buds in marginal conditions.
Out of ((Morrie Otte x Faulkner seedling) x ( Almira Buffalo Bone Jackson x lost tag))
Bright reddish lavender with a greyed edge on the petals. Cream midrib on petals, with a green throat.
The very curly and twirling blooms are attention getting!
I registered this plant, with short height, 3 branches and 13 buds, because that is what I counted on the line outs. Expect much higher numbers.
Out of (Ocean Depths x Amethyst Tears).
Pollen fertile and almost not pod fertile. Great kids with blue green foliage and extreme curling.
2021- I recorded up to 5 branches and up to 25 buds this year.
Rose with green throat, cream midrib and edge, red eye. Pink late in the day, but sunfast. This large flower reblooms more in our garden than any other daylily, here in the land of little rebloom. 3 sets of scapes here in average conditions, 4 in perfect conditions. Excellent parent, very fertile. Out of ZIP BOOM BAH by a seedling.
(Murphy J.P., 2025) 47" EM Re 6" Dormant Diploid, UF - Cascade
Yellow cascade with strong, feathered black red eye, cream midribs, and large green throat. The contrast of very dark eye on a light background with most blooms facing out is great. Exceedingly strong scapes. It is out of (Stingray Point x Clearly), which both have iron scapes. Those three and my Head In The Clouds yield a new direction for Diploid UF breeders.
3 branches, 27 buds, Bud Builder and some rebloom mean a really long bloom season.
An apt name for this brilliantly colored cherry red spider with a crimson star next to its yellow throat. As saturated a color as I have in the garden, EMO, and sunfast at 100F. I selected through this entire cross of 100 for blacks and reds that were completely sunfast and this was the result. One or two branches and 20 buds, with moderate budbuilding let this one bloom for about 6 weeks. Out of EGGPLANT ESCAPADE by CHIEF BLACK HAND. Fertile. Many of the children carry the distinctive brilliant red, sunfast, and late characteristics.
Parent of 3 of my intros.
HARD DORMANT BLUE GREEN FOLIAGE that is late freeze resistant.
Reddish Purple with green throat, blending to cream and cream midribs.
This is a plant that is striking at a distance because of its height and contrasting cream throat. Up close, it is unusual in that each bloom tends to have a different shape. Very strong Bud Builder. Occasionally reblooms. Scapes are very sturdy and strong. It is in bloom for two and half months in good conditions. 4 branches and 27 buds.
Parentage: (It’s Glad Cows Don’t Fly x Tom Malone). Not pod fertile but pollen fertile.
( Murphy-JP, 2023) 26" ERe 5.25" Dormant Diploid
Cream with extremely variable blue eye, usually etched in violet. Sometimes patterned with charcoal, blue, lavender. Not registered as a poly, it exhibits 20% poly on first scapes and 40% on second scapes under good conditions. 2 branches and 18 buds on small plants, better on a clump. Janice Wood asked me to name this for her after seeing many different images. She has those piercing blue eyes, as you may have noticed.
I am introducing this at a high price and as a hybridizer-only plant for several reasons. It is glacially slow to increase. It passes on amazing attributes to its kids and grandchildren. It has pattern, poly, and rebloom genes that express in different combinations. I have at least 25 seedlings under evaluation from it. It also, with the right parent, has very vigorous children. It took me 5 years to get about 12 plants, and most are already spoken for. It increased maybe at a 2/1 rate in good conditions, and our average is 5/1.
Out of (Energy x (Jim's Evil Grin x Faulkner Seedling))
Murphy '07 - 51" Emre 7.5" Dor dip Nocturnal Ext frag. Cream yellow with dark pink watermark.Choice. Imposing in the garden and is still in bloom on July 23, starting in June.
This nocturnal opens at Midnight, and stays open until dusk the next day. In the morning it has a dark pink watermark, and evening it is a yellow self. Interesting. Fertile.
Excellent rebloom in 2017 and 2019.
Three sets of rebloom in 2021.
(Murphy, 2017) 45" M 8.5", dormant, diploid, 3 branches - 22 buds (Monacan Trail x Just Jessie) UF - cascade.
Cream pink with dark reddish lavender eye, green throat, and ruffled cream edge. This can be spectacular in bloom, and looks very big. Striking as a flower show plant. Long bloom season and clear colors. Difficult pod parent and spectacular pollen parent. Clear colors on kids and very good scapes and foliage. Double fans or more.
Makes a great, colorful clump and is a fast grower.
A very tall, large cream Cascade with purple band, chartreuse throat, and cream midrib. This very imposing plant is in bloom for 3 months with moderate bud building and instant rebloom. Sunfast at 101F at 7 p.m. Rain resistant. Three branches, 22 buds initially, more after bud building. I feel that this one is worthy of awards and would like to get it distributed, so I dropped the price to make it more affordable. Started blooming June 30 and is going strong on July 23rd, and starting to make new buds. Thanks to Cynthia Marriott for coming up with the name for this one and continuing to bring up good names!
2017- Bloomed from June 22 until October 26.
( Murphy 2012) 46" Late 6.5" Dormant Diploid Cascade
If you name a daylily to honor your mother, it better be good, and this one is. It is a ruffled lavender cascade Unusual Form with an apricot throat and lemon midribs. One of the best branched cultivars that I have introduced, registered with 6 branches (and up to 8), and 32 buds. It blooms a long time, very late into the season and is a moderate budbuilder. Completely sunfast at 101F and is still open and perfect at 930pm. Out of MARGO REED INDEED by NORTH WIND DANCER. (Exceptional parentage) Pollen fertile and pod difficult. GOOD BRANCHING
(Murphy, J.P., 2025) 39" ERe 5.25" Dormant Diploid, Pattern
Cream, green throat, bluish-lavender blends into feathered raspberry patterned lavender eye, some dark cream. Cream midribs, ruffled edge. Great in the early garden and has some rebloom.
3 branches and 18 buds in good conditions.
Parentage: (Energy x Janice’s Blue Eyes) and unlike JBE it is very vigorous.
Fertile both ways and an exciting parent.
Only 3 plants for Spring 2026.
(Murphy- JP, 2023) 37" EMRe 7" Dormant Diploid
My sister selected this one from over 2000 possibilities. Very contrasting color combination and views well from 50 feet away. Yellow with stark red eye. The form is variable from triangular to elongated to borderline cascade. Almost completely sunfast here. Blooms a long time. Fertile both ways.
Out of (Cloud Pillows x Eye Am).
Proven hardy in zone 5a.
This is a cherry red cascade, with a very green throat. It has 2 branches, 16 buds, in most conditions, but with good culture and rain, it bud builds and has 3 branches and 22 buds. Bloomed over 2 months this year. Out of Rose F. Kennedy x Earth Jewels. Unusual Form Cascade. Named for Kenan Witczak whose life was shortened by the rare Krabbe Disease. He passed away recently at 7 years old. His Grandfather asked me to name a daylily for him. His family and extended family have most of the plants, but a few are left. Fertile. I have 3 future intros with this as a parent.
Note, there is a law in Illinois now called Kenan's Law, that provides for testing at birth for this rare, devastating disease, THAT IS PREVENTABLE. When I think about it, and Kenan, I tend to cry, but tend to smile when I see this daylily bloom. Jim
(Murphy-JP, 2023) 38" ML 7" Dormant Diploid, UF Cascade
Purple to black with muted black band. Green to cream throat with cream midribs and very narrow white edge on petals. Blooms heavily for about 3 weeks here. Very sunfast for one so dark, thanks to its parentage. Two of its parents were selected for being sunfast at 90F. Fertile both ways with many interesting purple kids. 3 branches and 21 buds in good conditions.
Out of ((Grim Reaper x TNT) x Metzger's Purple Storm)
This great plant is many colors. Overall, a reddish lavender bitone, it has a strongly yellow throat, and cream edge, that becomes much whiter in hot weather. Sunfast in all conditions here. 4 branches and 29 buds, and very fertile. I have some very nice seedlings out of this, in reds, lavenders, and purples, all with some color patterning of this type. In 2017, it bloomed from 6/22 until 8/1 on first scapes and is currently blooming on August 15th, with more scapes coming. If you live north of here, don’t expect rebloom, except rarely, but South of here, you should have reliable rebloom on scapes with 20-30 buds. It will bloom a long time north or south. NEGATIVE IMAGE by (COMPLICATED X MARGO REED INDEED)
Murphy, 07 - 37" Vla 5.5" dor. Dip. Extremely late clear pink, cream edge, ruffled and creped
Truly a breakthrough plant. Clear Pink, and starts blooming as late as any cultivar that I know of. It will bloom alone in most gardens, in late August, September, and October. Clear Pink, cream edge, ruffled and creped, with a rounded recurved form, sometimes triangular. Four branches and 21 buds, held perfectly above the foliage on strong scapes. Out of AFTER AWHILE CROCODILE by SUE ROTHBAUER. Very fertile, excellent parent for very lates. ONLY 2 LEFT. It has rebloomed here every year since intro. I have several very late future intros from this.
(Murphy 2013) 44" VL 6" Dor Dip Ext UF Cascade After watching this clear lavender pink for several years in the very late garden, I am convinced of its worthiness for introduction. The cream midrib and cream edge combine with the clear tepal color to make the overall look one of cool and clear. It has a chartreuse throat and is sunfast. 5 branches and 20 buds. Fertile both ways, and the parent of many clear colored very late seedlings. Out of MARGO REED INDEED by HEAVENLY CURLS. Hard Dormant
(Murphy 2013) 44" M 7" Dor Dip Ext UF Cascade Very bright red color with a sharp green throat. Sunfast at 98F at 7pm in our climate. 4 well spaced branches with 16 well spaced buds. What attracts me the most about this flower and why I selected it over 3 or 4 other reds is consistency. It always looks good and always grows well. Fertile. Out of BRILLIANT IDEA by KIRSTEN MADELAINE BURKEY.
GOOD BRANCHING
Excellent parent of highly branched reds.
Lemon cream with darker yellow center and along midribs. Heavy bloomer in the very late season. After most plants are done for the year, a clump of this is in full, heavy bloom for 6 weeks. Outfacing, consistent, sun proof and rain proof blooms. Check out the clump images. Strong scapes; 3 branches, 27 buds. Fragrant. Parentage: (Running Late x Starfish Prime).
2021- Up to 5 branches and 32 buds. Blooming heavily on 8/20/21.
