Jim Murphy Previous Intros

(Murphy, 2017) 44" M 6" dormant, diploid, 3 branches - 27 buds Seedling (Brer Rabbit's Baby x 2009 ACE) x Focus. UF - cascade.
Greyed reddish black with a black band, green throat, and thin lemon midrib on petals. Distinctive blue-green foliage. Very sun tolerant in our climate. On hot days, the plant will be darker and less grey. Some of the best and most carefree blue green foliage that we have in our garden. Fertile and makes great dark kids with blue green dormant foliage.
100.00 for double fans. One plant for fall 2018.
HARD DORMANT BLUE GREEN FOLIAGE that is late freeze resistant.

(Murphy 2013) 57" MLre 7.5" Dor Dip Ext UF Cascade A buff cream base color with red purple band, and yellow and green throat. This quite tall flower has strong scapes and is sunfast at 98F at 7pm in our climate. Very well branched with 5 and up to 28 buds. It is an inconsistent rebloomer here. Out of MONACAN TRAIL by JUST JESSIE. Fertile. Starts in July and blooms into August. Bud Builder. Started July 4th and blooming well on August 14th, 2017.

Double Fans

Murphy, '06 - 51"; Mla 8.75" dor.dip. UF-quilled crispate. Melon yellow, purple overlay, late.

Complicated colors on this one include base color of yellow and melon, overlaid and stippled with purple and tan, with a beige to cream ruffled edge, and a yellow and green throat. This tall daylily has highly unusual bloom form, with quilled blooms facing out, in your face! It blooms mid-late, with 2 branches, 12-15 buds, and some rebloom. Fertile.

Parentage: (Yabba Dabba Doo X Devil's Advocate) X Helga Bjornerud Burkey

(Murphy 2012) 47" ML 9" Dormant Diploid Spider

STRETCH is a gorgeous cherry red 5/1 spider with an extremely long bloom season. It blooms 7 or 8 weeks here once established, through bud building. Tall, at 47", with strong scapes, and 2 branches, with 20 buds. It is extremely sunfast for us, and has a yellow green throat, and yellow midrib. Out of BARNEGAT LIGHT by KIRSTEN MADELAINE BURKEY. Exceedingly fertile and makes huge, full pods. Has proven to be not only a good garden plant in the late garden, but an excellent parent as well.
Note in 2018- I kept well over twenty seedlings from STRETCH in 2017, so I think it is a pretty special parent. Guaranteed pods for us, in all conditions.

( Murphy, 2014) 39" ML 7" Dormant Diploid UF- Cascade, Bitone

Petals are smoky lavender with a striking dark reddish purple band and the sepals are reddish lavender. Cream midribs and small green throat expand to a very large cream throat. Sun-fast to at least 97 and looks great at 8 pm on a hot day! Out of SPORT COUPE by OCEAN SPIRIT. It has 4 branches and 16 buds. Won best seedling at NCDC show 2 years ago. Ask me how it got its name and you might be surprised. Pollen Fertile, Pod difficult.

Murphy 2010 41" M 7" SEV Tetraploid Cascade Unusual Form

Thank you to Glenn Pollock for pushing me to introduce this one since its maiden bloom. It has proven to be remarkably visible in the garden, due to the tall scapes, bright orange color and striking, feathered reddish purple eye. It has colors matching Virginia Tech's colors: blasphemy!, here near UVA! 3 branches and 18 buds, that bloom long and slow, for a long season. Sun-fast, out of (ISLE OF DREAMS x TET CORAL CRAB) X FISH FACE. Unique genetics make this great garden plant also a hybridizers tool. Pollen fertile and pod possible.

Limited

(Murphy 2012) 45" Late 9" Dormant Diploid Fragrant Spider

I consider this to be my best offering in several years, not only because of the grace and beauty, but performance as well. This lavender cream reverse bitone spider has lavender edged sepals, and faces out, toward you. It is a narrow, 5.6/1 ratio spider, but doesn't look it. 2 branches, 19 buds. It is my best bud builder, going until frost some years. It is sunfast at 95, perfect at 9pm, rain resistant, and blooms up to 10 weeks. One of my best parents ever, but only pollen fertile. This will sell out, so order soon. Out of JELLYFISH JEALOUSY by NORTH WIND DANCER.

(Murphy, '05) - 44" EMRe 8" semi.dip. Clear lavender and creamy lavender bitone, dark eye, lt. green throat.

Smooth, clear lavender and creamy lavender bitone with a dark lavender eye, chartreuse throat, and green heart. This is the narrowest of the siblings, but did not make the 4:1 spider ratio. It is large, graceful, and tall, and has a very long bloom season. Three branches, 26 buds, instant rebloom, vigorous growth, and good foliage, makes this a winning daylily. It is fragrant, has extended bloom, and has sturdy scapes holding graceful blooms.

Parentage: RADIANT MOONBEAM X MOUNTAIN TOP EXPERIENCE

( Murphy 2017) 54"L 7" Dormant Diploid Unusual Form Cascade
A large pink with lavender highlights, cascade, with light cream and green throat. Open early and late, on tall, well branched scapes that are stiff and upright. 3 branches and 18 buds initially, but bud builds when happy for up to 28 bud count. Fertile, pods are not easy. In bloom a very long time in the late and very late daylily garden. This year it started July 10, and is still in bloom on August 16. RASPBERRY GRIN by THANK YOU DAD

(Murphy, 2015)
57" EMRe 8" dormant, diploid 3 branches, 20 buds Unusual Form - Cascade
(Peace Out x Just Jessie)
Sanded peach tepals with lavender-rose eye and huge dark green throat; ruffled and sunfast, long bloom season. The green throat lasts all day, even on the very hot ones. Consistent instant rebloom here. Bloomed from June 4 until after August 1 here this year. Pod difficult, pollen fertile.

( Murphy 2014) 38" ML 7" Dormant Diploid Cascade UF

Smooth, light pink color, with distinctive apricot raised ridges on both sides of the light midribs. Very ruffled and curled, sunfast and rain resistant. Lightly fragrant, with 2 branches and 18 buds in spare conditions, more with better culture. Out of MARGO REED INDEED by NORTH WIND DANCER. Pollen fertile only. Long bloom period, until July 28th this year, starting around July 1.

(Murphy 09) 48" M 9" Dor Dip ext. Red Spider.

My long awaited first intro from BRILLIANT IDEA by KIRSTEN MADELAINE BURKEY is not to be missed in the garden. It starts blooming here about July 1st and bud builds until September 1st . Unlike many red spiders, it is wide open on cool mornings at dawn and blooms until after dark. It has a red eye, green throat, lemon midrib, 5/1 spider ratio, and excellent foliage. Fertile, and an excellent parent. Both Margo and I have introductions from this fine parent.

(Murphy, 2018) 51” M 6” dormant, diploid, Unusual Form – cascade.

Tomato red cascade with green throat and cream midribs. Longer blooming than almost any plant I have seen - 3 months this year. I was harvesting pods while pollinating new blooms. Sunfast to 95 here. Truly excellent parent of future intros. Freeze-resistant, blue-green foliage. Bud builder with big,strong, well branched scapes! Parentage: (September Flame x TNT). Limited supply.

Murphy 2011 39" MLRe 6" dormant diploid cascade unusual form

A sunfast lavender and raspberry with lemon cream throat and a ruffled cream edge. I went back and forth with whether it is raspberry or lavender and finally decided it is both. Registered with 3 branches and 18 buds, but more under good conditions, it also reliably re-blooms for us in September. Pollen Fertile, Pod Possible, out of MARGO REED INDEED by NORTH WIND DANCER.
Bloomed this year from about July 4 until August 15.

(Murphy, 2018) 45" EM 8" dormant, diploid, Unusual Form crispate.

Black-red variable crispate with huge cream to green throat and cream midribs. Excellent presence in the garden, with outfacing, sun resistant dark blooms. Very long blooming, fertile both ways. 3 branches, 15 buds. Parentage: (Buzzer Beater x Green Throated Robin).
Big and tall foliage that is BLUE GREEN and late freeze resistant.
Good grower.

(Murphy 2013) 32" M 7" Dor Dip Ext UF Cascade Introduced because of excellent plant habit, pure red color, and extremely green throat. The green throat dominates the bloom, fading to chartreuse near the edges, then melding into clear, bright red. Sunfast to about 95 here, with 2 branches and 20 buds. Highly fertile both ways, blooming for about 4 to 5 weeks here. Fast growing. Out of ROSE F KENNEDY by a Snooks Harville Seedling with excellent color.
2018- With our ample rain this year, Uncle Sam really performed well, blooming for a long time with perfect blooms. We had plenty of increase after being sold out. I dropped the price! Several hybridizers have shown me excellent images of their kids from it.

Murphy, 07 - 51" Late 7" dor.dip. Very tall purple with dark purple eye, 5-way branching

Quite tall, and just under the wire for very tall. Gorgeous purple, with lighter purple sepals, and purple eye, with yellow and green throat. Once established, this plant is a forest of scapes and branches. It has 5 way branching, and 38 buds, on very sturdy scapes. Vigorous, fast grower out of GREY WITCH by HELGA BJORNERUD BURKEY. Fertile. Excellent parent for branching and bud count.

(Murphy, 2019) 48" VLa 7" dormant diploid, UF – cascade
A tall black, red, and purple blend with cream midribs and ruffled edge. Sunfast to 95 here and blooms over 2 months. Starts very late and blooms until late September here. 4 branches and 26 buds in good culture. Parentage: (Late Report x Under The Wire). Sinfully fertile and most kids are sunfast and very late.

(Murphy 2014) 5" ML 53" Dormant Diploid Double, UF- Cascade

Gold Self with doubling at about 90% or higher. Creped, ruffled, and sunfast. These flowers are held high on sturdy, extremely branched scapes into late August here. I can't name another 53" double, especially one with excellent branching. It is the only double registered at over 50". SIX branches and 34 buds. Out of CROOKED by ZADA MAE .

At least double fans

(Murphy, 2013) 33" EM 7" dormant, diploid; Unusual form crispate, Polymerous

This melon self poly is a pinched crispate. 90% poly, but this year almost 100%. I selected through 5 siblings to this one and it proved to be the most consistent garden plant and high percentage poly. Fertile both ways.

(Quad Quiddity x Carolina Flying Poly Possum) 2 branches, 18 buds

Double fans

Murphy '07 - 41" Ere 6.5" Sev dip spider ext frag. Light purple/pink spider purple eye, heavy bloomer.

Murphy, '04 - 37" Mre 7.5" semi.dip.frag. Complex lavender bitone, yellow midribs, rouge eye, green heart.

This gorgeous pinkish lavender bitone with huge rouge eye was named for a beautiful race horse from the Virginia horse country. This complex flower has lavender petals, light lavender sepals, a large yellow throat, green heart, yellow midribs, and huge rouge eyezone. The fragrant flowers are spidery, with a 3.33:1 ratio, and sometimes unusual form, but it is not registered as either. The scapes are strong and slender, carrying 2 branches and 17 buds in average culture. The blooms hover well above the beautiful foliage and are striking. Growth is vigorous, bloom is extended, and it is completely sunfast.

Parentage: RADIANT MOONBEAM X MOUNTAIN TOP EXPERIENCE

Murphy, '06 - 42" Em 8" dor. Dip. Brilliant cherry red spider, green throat, cream edge. 7/1! Ratio

This brilliant, clear, cherry red very narrow spider has been a wonder here. It measures at least a 7/1 spider ratio, rare in this color range. It is quite sun tolerant, sun-proof up to around 93F at 7PM. During hot days, it has a narrow white edge. The scapes are strong, and well branched, with lots of sometimes overlapping blooms. Reminds me of fireworks, and it does bloom here on the fourth of July. With dormant foliage, and an easy cool morning opener, unlike most reds, it also appears to be very cold hardy. 3 way branching, 32 buds. Pollen fertile.

Cherry red with cream edge above green throat

Parentage: Red Rain x Seedling

WOODHENGE NATURAL (Murphy, 2016) Fall
42” M 7.5” Dormant, Diploid, Extended UF-Crispate
Out of Negative Image by a vigorous patterned seedling.
An unusual patterned combination of colors- Red and rose dotted bitone with a darker red band, tan to cream edge, cream midribs, and yellow green throat. The dark red color and the edges fade during the hot days making the combination and pattern even more striking. Sunfast to the mid 90’s here. 3 branches, 23 buds, fertile both ways. Almost all of the kids have this type of patterning. An improvement on its very good parent, Negative Image, because it is quite vigorous.
Double fans or larger. $75

Murphy, '05 - 51" La 5.75" dor.dip. Gold, piercing red eye, lavender midribs, orange throat with green heart.

Gold blooms with striking red eye, unique lavender midribs, and orange throat with green heart. An awesome color contrast, on tall scapes with decent branching and a budcount of 20, makes this one stand out. Fragrant, out of a Benzinger seedling by NUCLEAR MELTDOWN. Sibling to BARNEGAT LIGHT and this year's COROLLA LIGHT.

Parentage: Benzinger seedling X NUCLEAR MELTDOWN

(Murphy, 2010) 48" M 9" semi-evergreen, diploid, extended, spider.

This gorgeous, sun-fast, tall purple spider has a lemon throat and cream midribs. It has very stiff and strong scapes, 3 branches and 22 buds. It is out of GREY WITCH X BLACK ICE. Pollen fertile.