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

30” EMRe. emo. Ev. 6” x 3 ¾” x 2 ¾”. 4-way branching (2 laterals + Y) 30-35 buds. This gorgeous rose violet with a blue lavender eye and double edges of blue lavender and white has been a standout in the early garden that is not especially known for purple.  Early blooming purples are especially valued and CELESTIAL SHORE has both the size and drama to garner your attention, easy pod parent and has proved to be a wonderful parent for purples. Easily fertile both ways.

Cultivar can be viewed at Nicole's Daylilies.

Chasing Venus

HARRY, N. 2010 - (Bridey Greeson X Ruby Sunday) 28" TET 6 ½” SEv 4 way branching, 26 buds. This triple-edged beauty is a wonderful performer. Amazing plant habit, large flowers, and size are some of its attributes. Very unusual colors reflected in both eye and edge. Very difficult to capture in photograph. Fertile both ways.

(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.

(Murphy 2010) 57" MLa 7.5" dormant diploid ext. fr. 5 branches, 32 buds.

Very tall, well-branched and budded, this extra-large reddish lavender with a dark lavender eye, gold throat, and ruffled cream edge stands out, to say the least, towering over lesser plants.  On cool mornings, grey. Sunfast to over 90 degrees; fertile.  (Grey Witch X North Wind Dancer)

(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.

ELLER N. - 2010 - Nancy & Don Eller Daylilies

Tet  30" SEv 6" Early, Reblooms, Fragrant. Apple red with heavily ruffled edges tipped in cream. 3 way branching, 20 bud count. 95% dbl. Fertile Both Ways.  (Treva In Red x Tet. Amanda’s Little Red Shoes)

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

36” EMRe. Emo. 9” x 1 7/8” x 1”. Spider ratio 2.9:1.  5-way branching (3 laterals + terminal Y).  25-30 buds.  This striking daylily is certainly not round, nor neither a spider nor an unusual form but rather a long petalled daylily with beautiful color.  Clear saturated orchid purple with a near black eye and lemon green throat. The blooms are nicely ruffled for a long petalled daylily.

(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

Emmerich 2008 – 32” M 8” Vfra Ev Re

Lavender pink with multi colored patterned lavender violet eye and edge trimmed in ivory gold above yellow green throat . 

ELLER, N. - 2010 - Nancy and Don Eller Daylilies

Tet, 31" SEv 6.5" Early, Reblooms, Fragrant. Rose Pink Self, Gold Edge, Vivid Green Throat. 3 way Branching/ 18 buds. 95% Dbl. Fertile Both Ways.  (Treva In Pink x Peaceful Serenity)

LAMBERTSON 2010 - Art Gallery Gardens

TET 7.5"SevERe32" [Razor Eyes X Intergalactic Interlude]
FLIGHT PATTERN is patterned UF crispate with two distinct looks. The early blooms of FLIGHT PATTERN have medium yellow petals and sepals and a slight picotee edge. The superb patterned eye is a blend of deep blue-purple and some gray. The pattern also is on the sepals. The late season blooms have an eye pattern that turns to red-purple. A nice green throat, 4-way branching and 25-plus buds and a very long bloom season. Fertile both ways.

(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.

(Ted Petit - 2006) Photos of Ted Petit's cultivars can be viewed at Le Petit Jardin

This photo compliments of Stardreamer Daylily Gardens, Carol Sarginger.  Thank you!

(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.

(Stamile,P.) TET   23” EMRe. fr. emo. SEv. 5 ½” x 3” x 2”. 4-way branching (2 laterals + terminal “Y”). 20 buds.
    Violet black 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. Olive green throat.  Fertile both ways and a remarkable breeder for eyes.

Lankart 1979  24", 5.5",EM Dip, semi evergreen
Chartreuse self with green throat.

(Ted Petit - FALL 2008) Photo and description courtesy of Le Petit Jardin

* Hagrid -- (Spectacle of Wealth x Gary Colby) Sev. 7-8” fl. 30” sc. M 25-30 buds. When I look at this image, I realize that Hagrid looks like a beautiful lavender, but that is just the beginning. Unfortunately, the image can not capture the huge size of the flower, which gives it such impact in the garden.  These monster-size flowers make other gold edged lavenders look like miniatures.  The color varies between a dark lavender and light purple, accented by a deep green throat surrounded by a lighter watermark.  The gold edge is deeply ruffled, and the flowers are presented on tall, well branched scapes.  A great garden show-piece and an important breeder for size in the purple to lavender lines.

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

(Ted Petit - 2004) Photos of Ted Petit's cultivars can be viewed at Le Petit Jardin

(Pat Stamile - 2006) Photos of Pat Stamile's cultivars can be viewed at Floyd Cove Nursery.

*INIMITABLE (Stamile,P.) TET 2164-F {(Sangre De Cristo x Fuchsia Kiss) x [((Magic Amethyst x Lake Effect) X Big Blue) X Be Thine]} 32” MRe. Ev. vfr. emo. 7 ½” x 4 1/8” x 2 ¼”. 4 way branching. (2 laterals + terminal ”Y”)  28 buds.

       Inimitable means “incapable of copy”. In my experience I have never been able to get a near white of this size. First blooms on this monster are 8” with almost 5” petals and 3” sepals! It is simply the largest full formed near white that I know of. There may be others out there but I have not seen them.

    The flowers are heavy and large and have a pastel pink blush and a deep grass green throat. Although it has none of the “angel wings” of its full sib JUDY FARQUHAR, INIMITABLE is beautifully ruffled with precise fluted ruffles.

    A very consistent flower INIMITABLE has very few “Bad hair days”. Flowers are uniformly good. Excellent plant habits and plant balance.

    A great parent for immense flowers and easily fertile both ways.