(Pat Stamile - 2007) Photos of Pat Stamile's cultivars can be viewed at Floyd Cove Nursery.

*ALASKAN MIST (Stamile,P.) TET 36” ERe. emo. no fr. Ev. 6” Light pink base.  Beautiful edges are very prominent in this large, very overlapped, and extremely ornate daylily.  The ultimate in “fancy” with color, ALASKAN MIST is not just a pretty face.  High bud count and branching along with rebloom add to an extremely long blooming cultivar.  Plant proportion and habits are exemplary.  Fertile both ways. 

6-way branching (4 laterals + terminal “Y”).  40-45 buds.  

(Frank Smith - Fall 2006) Photos of Frank Smith's cultivars can be viewed at Frank Smith Daylilies.

TET (Mandalay Bay x Seedling), semi evergreen. 6" flower, 4-way branching. 32 buds on a 30" scape.
Aunt Ethel is a sibling to Princess Diana. This flower is a beautiful lavender pink with large yellow ruffled edge. The brilliant chartreuse-to-green throat makes the overall color glow in the garden.
Fertile both ways.

(Patrick Stamile - FALL 2008) Photo and description courtesy of Floyd Cove Nursery

*BART ROBERTS (Stamile,P.) TET 5238-C (Aragon X Tetra Peppermint Delight) 27” EERe. Emo. Ev. 6 ½” x 3 3/8” x 2”. 4-way branching (2 laterals plus terminal Y). 25-28 buds.

What Tetra TERRY LYNINGER did to the appliqué throats Tetra PEPPERMINT DELIGHT has done for large eyes on large flowers. Thank you to Jack Carpenter for creating two wonderous diploids which when converted are revolutionizing the world of tetraploids.

BART ROBERTS is a very large orchid rose with a huge velvety blue red eye. In both clarity and vibrancy of color I know of no other eyed daylily with such color presence. BART was used extensively this May to capture the bold saturation of colors. We will see next year what this will bring.

Siblings to BART ROBERTS also had prominent white sharks teeth outside the red border so I expect BART ROBERTS may be useful in structural edges as well as borders.  Fertile both ways.

(Ted Petit - FALL 2007) Photo and description courtesy of Le Petit Jardin

* BATMAN'S SHADOW --  (John Peat x Tricou Fedora) (Adventures with Ra) Sev. 7” fl. 29” sc. M.  I love the shadowy irregular patterned watermark in this flower which always reminds me of Batman’s image beaming up against the night sky. The very large clear purple flowers have a heavy substance and open flat. At the center of the flower is a green throat. The wide petalled flowers are nicely ruffled, carrying a gold edge. Unique and different.

(Ted Petit - SPRING 2009) Photo and description courtesy of Le Petit Jardin

*BELLA ISABELLA -- [(Spacecoast Sea Shells x Gary Colby) x (Rippled Oasis x Casper’s Shadow) Sev. 5.5" fl. 28" sc. M 20 buds.  Ah, yes, Bella Isabella, which means Beautiful Isabella in Spanish. Named for Bella, short for Isabella, our occasional garden helper and the lovely daughter of Reyna, our garden manager.  These ivory flowers have a very dramatic chevron applique that extends far out onto the petal self.  Outside the applique is a lavender violet patterned eye. The eye is surrounded by a dark purple mascara band that streaks inward.  The pattern eye is mimicked on the sepals and continues as a double purple and violet picotee around the petal edges.  The picotee edge is surrounded by a third bubbly gold wire edge. Striking and dramatic.

(Karol Emmerich - 2006) Photos of Karol Emmerich's cultivars can be viewed at Springwood Gardens

(Jack Carpenter - SPRING 2008) Photo and description courtesy of The Lily Farm

TET 33”-EMRe-6.5”-EV - Stately large flat-faced flowers of excellent substance.   Pink flowers which have bold eyes and edges of a magenta color, with a lovely green throat. Three-way branched scapes bear 17 buds. The cultivar is fertile both ways.

(Karol Emmerich - 2006) Photos of Karol Emmerich's cultivars can be viewed at Springwood Gardens

(Ted Petit - SPRING 2009) Photo and description courtesy of Le Petit Jardin

TET 24” Sev.  6”  M 20  buds.  Like the beautiful golden sunsets of Captiva Island, this flower is a bright beacon in the garden.  The flower color is a glowing coral gold, with hints of pink and orange.  The petal edges are very ruffled and crimped with a sparkling gold filagree.  The gold edges continue around the petaloids as well. The gold, glittering edges all over the flower, combined with the very bright flower color, produces a glittering image of a molten sunset.

(Patrick Stamile - SPRING 2009) Photo and description courtesy of Floyd Cove Nursery

*CHERRY SWIZZLER (Stamile,P.) TET 641-B (Wild and Wonderful X Wild and Free) 42” EERe. emo. no fr. Ev. 12” x 1.375” x 1.125”. 16” wingspan. 5-way branching (3 laterals plus terminal “y”). 35 buds. Classic spider. Spider ratio 6.1:1.

This is one of our earliest flowers to bloom. When CHERRY SWIZZLER begins blooming there is literally a sea of green as a backdrop. Along with NARROW PATH you could not ask for a better beginning bloom.

Blooms are outfacing on tall well branched scapes. Both petals and sepals twist and curl as they cascade down.

A lovely addition to the EE class. Fertile both ways but a difficult pod parent.

(Jack Carpenter - SPRING 2009)  Photo and description courtesy of The Lily Farm

D-03-SH3-SFFTK – (23”-MRe-5”-Ev) – The heritage of this cultivar is easily identified by the patterned eye with its etchings on both petals and sepals. TEXAS KALEIDOSCOPE is very powerful for passing that trait to its seedlings. COLORFUL ETCHINGS has a buff yellow-crème base color with beautifully etched eyes that appear on both the petals and sepals. The eye color is a blend of both lavender and wine color with a deeper wine color etching around petals and sepals. The deeper etched edge of the eye on the petals is accented with deeper fine lines of wine color that radiate downward into the beautiful green throat. COLORFUL ETCHINGS has a deeper wine edging with some additional lavender edging with it that extends about half way out on the petals. Repeating scapes have two-way branching with fifteen buds. Pollen fertile and pod difficult.

(Ted Petit - SPRING 2009) Photo and description courtesy of Le Petit Jardin

*CORONATION DREAM --  [Gary Colby x Denali] Sev. 6.5 - 7" fl. 27" sc. M 20 buds. Coronation Dream is by far the most sophisticated and commanding double flower that I know. The blooms are a soft baby ribbon pink, with both the petals and sepals surrounded by a pronounced gold edge.  The flowers are extremely large, especially for a double flower.  Add to this blooms that are both consistently and fully double, and are on tall, very sturdy scapes, and you have a very powerful display of massive pom-pom blooms.  From a simple cross, these flowers got the huge size from both famous parents, along with sophistication and ornate gold edging covering the flower. Coronation Dream is is destined to be a star.

(Patrick Stamile - SPRING 2008) Photo and description courtesy of Floyd Cove Nursery

*COSENZA (Stamile,P.) TET 4286-A (Shores Of Time x George Washington) 28” EMRe. emo. Ev. 6” x 3.5” x 2.5”. 4-way branching (2 laterals + terminal “y”). 28-30 buds.

First question, “What is a Cosenza?” Cosenza is a city in the south of Italy from which my grandfather emigrated to the United States landing on Ellis Island with $25 in his pocket and a dream in his heart.

Neither of my parents were gardeners and I never knew my grandfather as he died when my father was a young man. I knew him only through the stories that my father would tell me of how he worked in his father’s olive orchards in Italy. Here in the US my grandfather would grow his own grapes that my father would stomp to make wine. He was always growing plants outside their climate zone like figs in New York. He set up controlled experiments testing different fertilizers and herbicides to see which would kill broadleaf weeds but allow grass to grow. In short, he was a lot like me, loving and working with plants his whole life. So, to you Grandpa I name this daylily in your honor.

COSENZA, the daylily is a beautifully formed bright rose pink with a large watermark and gold edge. Guy and I love this one. Personally, I like bright clear color on tall well branched scapes, color that is so bright and so clear that it radiates across the garden. This is one of the best. Fertile both ways and a great parent for both white edges and gold edges.

(Jack Carpenter - FALL 2008)  Photo and description courtesy of The Lily Farm  

DIP – D-02-TKB - (27”-MRe-6.5-Ev) –TEXAS KALEIDOSCOPE X “super fancy face” – Wow! is the word often heard as visitors look at this gorgeous and intriguing daylily. The scapes are 27” with five-way branching and 27 buds. The 6.5” flowers are flat-faced, consistently good, and very fertile both ways. This is a wonderful parent and produces high count number of seeds per pod. This we consider to be our best of the Kaleidoscope releases to date. Don’t miss this one for variety and distinction for your garden. COSMIC KALEIDOSCOPE is unique and extremely fertile both ways.

(Frank Smith - SPRING 2006) Photos of Frank Smith's cultivars can be viewed at Frank Smith Daylilies.

TET (Jane Trimmer x Hank Williams), semi evergreen. 6” flower, 3-way branching. 25 buds on a 35” scape.  CRAZY IVAN is a near-white flower with huge black mahogany eye and edge. This has proven to be an amazing parent, passing along incredible eyes and edges of all colors to its progeny. Fertile both ways.

(Jack Carpenter - SPRING 2008)  Photo and description courtesy of The Lily Farm  

TET - T-03-98 - (24”-EMRe-5”-Ev) – SLDG. X SLDG. - The flowers on this cultivar present such a beautiful blending or combination of colors that the name ELEGANT HARMONY seemed like an appropriate one to identify it. The sepals are of a lighter coral pink and the petals have a moderately deeper coral pink color and are extravagantly edged with yellow pleates and ruffles. The flowers have lovely green throats. Three-way branched scapes bear 15 buds and plants repeat their bloom cycle. Fertile both ways.

(Karol Emmerich - 2008) Photos of Karol Emmerich's cultivars can be viewed at Springwood Gardens

(Ted Petit - SPRING 2009) Photo and description courtesy of Le Petit Jardin

 Sev. 7" fl. 27" sc. M 20 - 25 buds.  These flowers are warm coral pink doubles with orange and rose highlights.  At the center of the flower is a darker eye, which is present on both the petals and petaloids.  The darker eye also continues along the petals and petaloids as a dark picotee.  Surrounding the picotee edge is a second gold edge, which is typically bubbly, with hooks and knobs.  The petals and petaloids are also very ruffled and crimped.  The flowers appear atop strong, nicely branched scapes.  The overall effect is very showy.

(Patrick Stamile - SPRING 2009) Photo and description courtesy of  Floyd Cove Nursery

*GET JIGGY (Stamile,P.) TET 5189-A (Rock Solid X Bit of Blue) 37” EMRe. sl. fr. emo. Dor. 5.75” x 2.75” x 1.5”. 6-way branching (4 laterals plus terminal “y”) 35-40 buds.

Wow what a daylily! GET JIGGY is basically pink with a violet rose eye and double edges of both violet and rose. It is the eye, though, with its myriad breaks in color forming designer patterns of intriguing complexity. The eye of GET JIGGY is never the same. While the eye can be occasionally solid it is generally broken into layers. I have seen as many as 9 bands of alternating color (the image shows 7 bands). The lighter bands occasionally take on metallic characteristics. Unlike most patterned eyes the complexity of the eye seems to be independent of the temperature. It appears in the cold weather and it appears in the hot weather.

Until this past year I have not had the tools to explore this intricacy in pattern. Now with seedlings showing the breaking eye I am excited to explore patterns in these new ways. Fabulous. Fertile both ways.

(Ted Petit - SPRING 2009) Photo and description courtesy of Le Petit Jardin

  Sev. 6" fl. 25" sc. M 20 buds.  In stark contrast to the bold colors of Captiva Island, the flowers of Goddess Divine are a delicate clear medium lavender pink.  The petals are ruffled and surrounded by a crimped gold edge.  The ruffled gold edges also decorate and highlight the petaloids, which makes the flower glow.  The flowers of Goddess Divine provide a soft, peaceful spot in the garden.  Reminiscent of a prom dress, these lovely pink flowers sparkle in the sunlight.

(Pat Stamile - 2007) Photos of Pat Stamile's cultivars can be viewed at Floyd Cove Nursery.

*GRAND MASQUE (Stamile,P.)TET 393-A (Rock Solid x Dream Candy)  23” EMRe. fr. emo. SEv. 5 ½” x 3” x 2”. 4-way branching (2 laterals + terminal “Y”). 20 buds.
    This is one neat flower. What is unique about the coloring is that most eyes and edges     are precise. This one wants to blend between the cream base color and the violet black eye and edge. The eye blends softly into both edge and simultaneously into the cream base while the edge does likewise in blending softly into the cream base even to the point of showing discreet dollops of anthrocyanin as if lightly spray painted on the cream canvas.
    The form of the flower is superb with wide chubby blunt sepals and short fat petals that give the flower that “elusive” pansy face. Add an olive green throat to the clear petal colors and you have a truly beautiful flower. Fertile both ways and a remarkable breeder for eyes.