(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.
(Murphy, 2024) 44" ERe 5.5" dormant diploid
3 branches, 22 buds. Parentage: (seedling x seedling)
Lemon cream with patterned lavender-red eye and green throat. Re-blooms, proliferates heavily, and blooms 3 months. Longest blooming of my recent intros. It bud builds and also has some rebloom. Fertile. Passes on the cool eyezone to the kids.
Buy both this and Lerts Have More Fun and get a recent intro extra bonus plant!
(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.
BLOOD PRESSURE (Reed, 2024) 45" MLa 8" dormant diploid,
UF Crispate. Mulberry red with a slight dark purple-red band and a green throat.
Petals pinched and ruffled, sometimes quilled. Large blooms with well-branched scapes. 5 branches and 28 buds. Parentage: (Ponder Stibbons x (Flight of Orchids x unknown ruffled seedling).
(Reed, 2024) 38" EMRe 6" dormant diploid
UF Cascade. Soft yellow bloom with large light lavender eye edged with rosy lavender. Green throat; recurved bloom is heavily ruffled. 3 branches and 20 buds. Reblooms. Parentage unknown, but still worth growing!
3 branches, 17 buds. UF Crispate. Parentage: (Following Seas x unknown)
Reddish lavender bi-tone with extremely large cream and green throat. Bud builds for a long time in good conditions, yielding up to 25 buds. The blooms face out and up looking at you. Many people were drawn to this one from across the garden. Very sunfast. Pollen fertile only. Excellent children with cool light throats.
(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, 2024) 40" MLa 7" dormant diploid
4 branches, 23 buds, Parentage: (Poison Ivory x Thank you Dad)
Cream to light lavender reverse bi-tone, light green throat. Fades to cream on hot days. Definitely eye-catching, no matter how hot it is. Completely sunfast here. Fertile, with great late kids in light colors.
Buy both this and Be A Lert and get an extra recent intro bonus plant!
(Reed, 2024) 24" ERe 3.1" dormant diploid
Very small UF cascade, sometimes under 3” (mini) but usually just over. 4 branches, 24 buds, reblooms a number of times. Light mauve-lavender petals with darker veins and cream midribs; sepals are cream with variable amounts of mauve-lavender and sometimes stippled. Green to cream throat. All tepals recurved, sepals have tight ruffling. Pod/pollen fertile. Parentage: (Helicopter x Arterial Blood)
(Reed, 2024) 42" EM 6.5" diploid dormant M 1723
UF Cascade. Lavender cream bloom with large soft lavender eye edged in a small line of red-purple, and a lime-green throat. Excellent branching and bud count. The gently recurved bloom is softly ruffled. 5 way branching and 28 buds. Parentage unknown (actually I am sorry about that, but it happens).
(Murphy, 2024) 43" EMre 6.5" dormant diploid
8 branches, 44 buds!!! UF Cascade. Parentage: (Frog’s Hair x Garden Fairy)
Reddish pink, cherry band, with light pink to cream edge and large green throat.
Gorgeous ruffled, heavily curling and cascading blooms.
Won an achievement medal as a seedling at National Capital Daylily Show. Blooms a long time, plus reblooms here late in the season. Fertile and an excellent parent.
(Reed, 2024) 46" MLa 8" dormant diploid
UF Cascade. Purple! Rich Purple with a deeper dark eye flowing from an emerald-green throat on a large bloom. Bloom is gently cascading and tailored. Branching 3, bud count 14; lots of scapes. Parentage: (Eggplant Electricity x Monster Magic)
(Reed, 2024) 34” M 7” dormant diploid
UF Cascade. Cream with dark-veined lavender eye and green throat.
Gently ruffled and recurved, often laying back in a relaxed pose.
Parentage: (The Light Dawns x Opal Road)
(Reed, 2024) 36" LRe 6.5" dormant diploid
UF Cascade. Late! Starts in late July and keeps sending up scapes and reblooms through September until frost in late October. Parchment bloom with intense black-purple feathered eye that reaches more than half way to the end of each segment. The throat is lime green. The bloom gently recurves and is ruffled. Well-branched scapes. Pollen fertile. Parentage: (((Brer Rabbit’s Baby x Cherry Peacock) x Rose F Kennedy) x ((Evil Grin x Indian Giver) x Complicated))
(Reed, 2024) 60" M 6" dormant tetraploid
Very tall red tet unusual for its height (can reach 6 feet) with dark blue-green foliage and deep branching. The bloom starts out as an intense red bitone, and on a hot day can fade to lighter red with red veins.The blooms have a green throat and a nice ruffled gold edge. 4 branches and 20 bud count. Pod and pollen fertile. Parentage: (Belief in Vein x Old Friends).
(Murphy, 2024) 32" MLaRe 7.5" dormant diploid
3 branches, 17 buds. UF Spider form. Parentage: (Cardinal Summer x TNT)
Red spider cascade with darker shade on tepals and light green throat. Shocking red color, that is quite sunfast. There are not many spider cascades registered. Fertile, with sunfast kids.
