Betscher '38 - 24" Ere dor.dip.frag.ext. Very early cute yellow orange trumpets.

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.

Reed, 2006 - 38" M 7" dor.dip. Black ruffled spider, sunfast

This 4.1:1 ratio spider is a solid black, ruffled star with a green throat. It is taller and more spidery than its parent, Chief Black Hand. It is very sunfast, holding its color well on 98 degree days. The finish on the bloom is velvety and satiny. 2-way top branching, 15 buds. Fertile both ways.

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

Reed, 1994 - 34" Mre 5.5" dor.dip. Near black with yellow to green throat.

Reed, 2003 - 32" M 6" dor.dip. Purple spidery with black-purple velvety eye, green throat

Reed, 1996 - 36" Mla 6.5" dor.dip. Eggplant purple with cheese-yellow throat. HM

Sayers, Pat '04 - 30" Mla 7" sev. Dip. polytepal rounded pink blend, sometimes double

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

Reed, 2005 - 40" Mla 7" dor.dip. Black purple with black eye, green throat, UF pinched crispate

Reed, 1996 - 36" EM 7" semi.dip. Spider. Cherry pink with green throat.

Kirchhoff, '84 - 15" EERe ev.dip.frag. Amber blend double with pink highlights, blooms 3 times here.

Reed, 2007 - 38" EM 7" dor. Dip. Exotic Barn Red, ruffled, yellow to green throat, fertile.

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.

Grovenstein, '85 - 28" M 5.5" dor.tet. Bright, sunfast, narrow red tet. Good parent, great plant

Murphy, '05 - 48" EERe 6.75" dor.dip. Narrow, 3.98:1 blooms, red, with darker watermark, green heart. Very long bloom with instant rebloom.

Red with a darker red watermark, gold throat, green heart. There are very few dormant reds that bloom EE. This great flower just misses the spider ratio at 3.98:1. With instant rebloom, this is in bloom for 7 weeks, blooming June 2 - July 21st last year. It rebloomed in November too!

Parentage: Benziger seedling by Murphy seedling

Krekler, '79 - 31' EM 8.25" dor.dip. UF Brick red with gold throat, good parent

(Murphy 09) 34" EMre 6.5" Sev Tet Cascade UF

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. Large single fans or possibly small double fans.

Fitzpatrick 04  32" ML 9" SEV Dip Cascade UF

Huge burgundy red cascade with green throat. Hardy, fertile.

Thomas, '99 - 32" La 6" sev.tet. UF distinctive orange rose, late blooming

Lunsford, '93 - 24" E 12" dor.dip. Rose pink self with cream throat.

Whitacre, '88 - 30" M 4" dor.dip. Spider. Blueish pink and yellow bitone, red and cream eye.

Reed, 2005 - 40" M 6" dor.dip. UF Lavender with purple eye, green throat

One of my favorites! This unusual form (crispate) features both the rolled sepals and the patterned, dark purple feathered eye on ruffled petals. This is the best of a number of seedlings out of a Jack Carpenter seedling. The blooms have good substance, and the plants make large fans. Fertile both ways. A scape of this cultivar won best unusual form in the Richmond (RADS) flower show in 2005, until it was disqualified for being registered the same year.

(Murphy, 2010) 39”  MLa  7”  dormant diploid ext.fr.  3 branches, 23 buds.

Black purple with a black band, chartreuse throat, and ruffled edges;  diamond dusted.  Unsually sunfast for a dark color and a sea of blooms in the late season. Fertile. (Don’t Know Jack x Chief Black Hand)  

Connell, '54 - 40" Mla 7" ev.dip. Spider Brown-yellow blend, chevron eye, classic antique, still good