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. H. ‘HEAVEN’S DECLARING’*
32” E Re Ex Ev 5”. Daylily connoisseurs sometimes pass over daylilies with cool colors, but never this one, Mort’s new, quintessential, H. ‘Heaven’s Declaring’. The bloom is a strong blend of medium amethyst and lilac, with a prominent watermark eye and grandly embellished edges. The watermark eye is comprised of sky and watercolors, and the fill within these webs is a lighter shade of slate lavender. The eye is outlined in amethyst. The color of the eye repeats on the petal edge, the innermost edge being deeper shades of amethyst, ringed blue violet, and encircled in gold. The edge is pleated with fine teeth, nerdles, tentacles, and cellophane sparkle to gold edges outside the blue grey inner edge. The scapes are candelabra branched five ways, with nice long branches and 45 or more buds. Very fertile and an extraordinary fine parent. {[(Seedling x Simply Divine) X [(Simply Divine x Royal Art) x (Uppermost Edge x Seedling)]}