Murphy, '03 - 32" EMRe 7.5" semiev. Dip. Huge twisting, curling cherry red UF on a vigorous plant

Murphy, '06 - 54" L 7" dor.dip. UF- cascade Tall light purple cascade that twists and curls as well as cascades. Strong, vigorous grower, with perfectly presented blooms.

I knew this one would be an introduction the first day it bloomed. A gorgeous 7" light purple unusual form cascade, carried high on 54" scapes with 2 - 4 branches, and 20 or more buds. The color changes on this one daily, starting out light reddish purple and end dark lavender, with vaguely blue-ish watermark. It has thick, strong scapes, with lots of proliferations, and it is a bud builder. Blooms have white midribs, yellow throat, green heart, and a ruffled white edge on hot days. Fertile and sun-resistant, with wide, dark green foliage.

Parentage: After Awhile Crocodile x spider seedling

Murphy, 2005 - 47" Mla Re 6.5" dor.dip. Clear red, tan & cream edges, yellow midribs, yellow throat. Fertile and an excellent parent for color patterns.

Clear red edged tan and cream, with yellow throat, green heart, and yellow midribs. For three years, everyone wanted me to introduce this one, and I resisted. It has a bud count of 10, is the reason. It can have more, with good culture, and does some rebloom. The colors are very clear and distinct, and the blooms are held high on tall, strong scapes. Good foliage, good blooms in adverse weather. An excellent parent.

Parentage: SCARLETT'S WEB X RED RAIN

Murphy, '05 - 39" EMRe 6" semi.dip. Clear lavender & creamy lavender bitone, purple eye, green throat

Clear lavender and creamy lavender bitone with a purple eye and green throat. ALLEGORY is the sibling to this year's THANKS MISTER WIZARD, and last year's LUNA, WIDE EYE BAYOU, and HOWS THE WEATHER UP THERE, hence the name. With 3 branches, 22 or more buds, and instant rebloom, it has a very long bloom season. Several people asked me to introduce this extended bloomer, out of RADIANT MOONBEAM by MOUNTAIN TOP EXPERIENCE.

Murphy, '01 - 42" EM 9" semi.dip. Huge yellow spider with tiny green heart, faint red watermark.

Murphy, '05 - 40" Mla 8.5" dor.dip. UF smooth golden orange self, 20% poly, 20%double, 60% single UF. A good breeder for poly UF's, and fertile both ways.

Pinched Crispate Unusual Form. This smooth colored golden orange self has many different forms. Why? About 20% of the blooms are polytepal, 20% double, and 60% single, yielding the name. Although registered as having 15 buds, it blooms a very long time, with good scape production, and reliable instant rebloom. The rebloom scapes to have a higher percentage of poly and double blooms.

Parentage: LOIS BURNS X EASY NED

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. Some scapes leaned during Hurricane Isabel, but none fell. 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: Benziger seedling "BLB/OI" X NUCLEAR MELTDOWN

Murphy, '05 - 44" Vla 6" dor.dip. Sunfast tomato red, orange throat, green heart, burgundy buds.

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.

Parentage: Benziger seedling X RED RAIN

Benzinger+ 07 - 30" Mlre Sev dip Crispate UF ext UNREGISTERED white with green throat. Excellent parent for huge light colored and white UF's.

Murphy, '05 - 47" MLaRe 7" semi.dip . Brilliant cherry red spider, etched, patterned throat, green heart.

Brilliant cherry red, with an etched, patterned throat, not eye. Throat is Chartreuse and yellow, with a green heard. This flower has some of the cleanest color in the garden, and is very sunfast. It also has a tiny red edge, hard to see, and a spider ratio of 4.22:1. The branching is poor with only 1 and an adequate budcount of 15. It does do instant rebloom here, for a long season of bloom. Sibling to my ALBERENE.

Parentage: YABBA DABBA DOO X RED RAIN

(Murphy, 2010)  40”  M  8”  dormant diploid, extended

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 DEVIL’S ADVOCATE X GREY WITCH.  Excellent grower.   Extra large 8” blooms,  two branches with 18 buds.

Murphy, '05 - 34" M 6" dor.dip. Red with yellow midribs and wide cream edge, only 2 left

Red with a wide, creamy, ruffled edge, yellow to cream midrib, and yellow throat. This flower is a step forward in color patterns for spidery daylilies. The creamy edge is very wide, and the pattern is very unusual. It did attract a lot of attention in the garden this year. The foliage is good, the increase is very good, and it blooms well in drought or rainy weather, yet I almost didn't introduce it. Why? It is under my threshold for budcount and branching, with a budcount of 8 to 13, and little or no branching. It is very striking, and three experienced hybridizers thought that it should be introduced anyway. I predict a sellout for this photogenic flower. It is a good parent, fertile both ways.

Parentage: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT X MURPHY'S LAW

Murphy, '05 - 36" VlaRe 6.5" dor.dip.UF Bright, saturated, clear red spatulate blooms, sunfast, 5-way branching, with high bud count and very long and late bloom season.

Bright, clear red, almost crimson blooms, with a darker red eye, orange throat, and green heart. The clearest color L or VL that I have seen. Blooms at least 2 months, starting after SANDRA ELIZABETH. Five way branching, 29 buds, and instant rebloom. Sunfast, period.

Parentage: Benziger seedling by HOLLY DANCER

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.

(Murphy, 2010)  40”  MRe  7”   semi-evergreen, diploid, extended, Unusual Form - Cascade

This reddish-lavender cascade has muted purple and slate patterned eyezones.   A reliable re-bloomer here with 2 branches, 15 buds, fertile.  Out of YABBA DABBA DOO X LOLA BRANHAM.

Murphy, '06 - 41" M 5.5" dor.dip. Red bitone, complex color pattern and edge color. Excellent parent for patterned and complex color patterned kids. Long blooming, good bud count.

Relatively small, 5.5" open-form blooms with a complex color pattern. A red bitone, with a wide tan to cream edge, complex red eye, waxy green throat and yellow midribs. Two to three branches and 19 buds. Pollen fertile with dormant, blue-green foliage.

Parentage: Red Rain X (Chesapeak Crablegs X Red Rain)

Murphy, '05 - 54" La 5.5" Dor. Dip. Clear yellow with red eye above orange and green throat, very tall.

Yellow with a stark, bright red eye, orange throat, green heart. The taller sibling of YOU KNOW WHO, blooms late August, and September here, sometimes into October. Can be seen from across the garden, so I named it as the second in the lighthouse series. Corolla Light is an old lighthouse on the coast of North Carolina. Long bloomer, with 3 branches and 27 buds.

Parentage: Benziger seedling X NUCLEAR MELTDOWN

Murphy, 05 - 59" La 6" dor.dip. Reblooms. Every scape is crooked or loops. Golden orange, with red eye. Doubles about 30% to 50% of the time, with good conditions.

Completely distinctive, with 59" scapes, every one with a crook, bend, or even loop. You read that correctly. Nothing like it in your garden! Late bloom and good color, with green throat, complete the package. Scapes do lean, and twist, but don't fall, with 15 buds, and 2 branches. Fertile, parents unknown.

(Murphy 09) 36" ML 6.5" Dor dip ext

This clear lavender is the cleanest colored daylily that I have introduced. It has a green and white throat, and good 3-way branching with 25 buds. Fragrant and fertile, out of MARGO REED INDEED by NORTH WIND DANCER. It is completely sunfast here.Double fans.

Murphy '07 - 48" Emre 7.5" Dor dip twisted crispate UF Ext frag. Clear cherry green throat, light edge.Bud builder with very long bloom season.

Murphy, '06 - 40" Mla 8.5" semi.dip. UF Dark red purple cascade with lighter ruffled edges. Reblooms

This was the most talked-about of my intros for this year. The wacky blooms cascade down and around, in many ways, hence the name. The color is between red and purple, with a huge chartreuse throat, striking ruffled cream edge, and yellow midribs. It has a wingspan of 11", making it imposing on tall scapes. Very reliable rebloom here, sometimes multiple rebloom. 3 branches and 21 buds, but less on rebloom. Seems to bloom forever here, with "scattered rebloom". Lime green foliage, and unusually fragrant blooms for such a dark color. Of all my intros, selected for northern hardiness, this one might be less hardy in the far north. Fertile.

Parentage: Benziger seedling "Racing Stripes" x Tropical Depression

Murphy, '05 - 38" EERe 5.75" dor.dip. Cute very early butter yellow spider with feathered red eye.

Butter yellow spider, feathered red eye, gold throat, extended bloom. 4.43:1 spider ratio. This colorful flower, with blue green dormant foliage, starts blooming before STELLA DE ORO here, and with instant rebloom blooms until July. Parentage unknown.

Murphy, '07 - 16" EMRe 5.5" dor.tet. Pink/rose bitone, green-yellow throat.Bubbly gold edge, reblooms a lot here.

Bet you never thought you would see me introduce an edged full formed tet! EDGY has been a hit with its bubbly gold edge that flashes metallically in the sun. A pinkish red to rose bitone, with both green and yellow throat, red eye, and rose veins. This quite short 16" plant is perfect for the front of the border, and blooms nearly continuously here for 3 months. The rebloom scapes just keep coming on this hard dormant. One branch and 13 buds. Fertile both ways.

Parentage: (IDA'S MAGIC x ADMIRAL'S BRAID) X STARTLE

Murphy, '07 - 78" Vla 6" dor.dip. Very tall, well branched, high bud count. Gold blooms, red band. Vigorous, fast grower, blooms for months.

ELI MURPHY is the tallest and most vigorous daylily I have introduced. Definitely a back of the border plant, standing over 6' tall, and up to 7' tall, with 6 to 10 branches and 42 to 80 buds. This late to very late daylily blooms continuously for 7 to 10 weeks, with classically formed gold blooms with a red orange band. The scape diameter is huge, to hold up the stout scapes. In 5 years, 5 scapes out of about 100 have toppled during thunderstorms, all had nearly 80 blooms. Fertile both ways, breeds giants.

Parentage: Autumn Minaret x Benziger seedling

Murphy 08 6" L 37" Dormant diploid Reddish Lavender with lemon throat, lemon midrib, and purple eye. A Cascade Unusual Form that starts Late, fragrant, ext., with three branches and 17 buds. It is out of AFTER AWHILE CROCODILE by LOLA BRANHAM, and is fertile both ways. Good parent for lates in many colors.