David’s first cross was in 1958, and his love of daylilies continues unabated. He is perhaps best known for his red and double flowered cultivars, although his two Lennington All American daylilies - MING PORCELAIN and CHORUS LINE were shades of pink. His two Stout Medal award winners – BETTY WOODS, the first double ever to win is a golden yellow, as is his single flowered, BILL NORRIS. David eagerly anticipates the challenge of growing and hybridizing daylilies for northern hardiness. 
Mort Morss began hybridizing daylilies in 1971, and his cultivars are very popular and widely grown. His award winning, first introduction, was named INNER VIEW and it helped launch the popularity of patterned daylilies. Mort’s Lennington All American Award winning PAPER BUTTERFLY was the first widely acclaimed cultivar with a patterned eyezone. His unwavering pursuit of excellence in the realm of patterned flowers has resulted in a disproportionately large percentage of the most coveted patterned eyes and edges by cutting edge hybridizers world wide. The popularity of his cultivars is such that they usually sell out soon after they are offered and are beloved throughout the world. GENTLEMAN OF VERONA
Morss. 30'' E RE EX SEV 7''. Evocations of immense lunar moths, dappled
in yellow, cream and lavender, dance on the wind. Flowers are hues of
palest yellow-cream with illusive and complexly patterned eyezones,
composed of shaded pewter-lavender within a webbed outline of amethyst-violet.
(The patterned eyezone is seen as an amethyst colored butterfly wing
filled with shades of French blue lavender and slate on the petals,
and in the diffused watermark eye of the sepals.) Above the green throat,
the amethyst color is diffused with yellow, 1/4'' into the base of the
eyezone. Color and substance hold quite well and the texture is diamond
dusted. The exotic form is wide and overlapped though the petals are
so long several observers thought it was a UFO. The scapes have 3 way
branching, and are strongly recurrent. Fertile, and a superb parent,
both ways. GERDA BROOKER X (SEEDLING X GRAPE EXPECTATIONS). $125.00