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. JERRY PATE WILLIAMS
(Kirchhoff) 25" E Re Ex VFr Ev 5 ¾" - 6". Named for our friend, Jerry Williams of Cincinnati - daylily connoisseur and creator of a picture-book perfect garden overflowing with daylilies. Jerry Pate Williams is among the finest, most consistently formed double tetraploids we have ever seen. The sunfast color is intense peach with melon and pink overtones, diamond dusting and a smooth seersucker texture. There is a faint yellow watermark halo, outlined in rose-rouge. The petals and petaloids present tightly serrated, ruffled and pleated yellow gold edges. The peony-style form displays six additional petaloids with raised, ruffled midribs. The illusion is a flower-within-a-flower - framed within a wide, outer set of petals. We have observed this cultivar closely for 5 years, and have never seen it misbehave. Scapes are well branched and strongly recurrent. Extremely fertile pods and pollen, and our best parent of tetraploid doubles. Clovette Adams X [(Layers Of Gold x Ruffled Dude) X (Layers of Gold x Noble Virtue)] 100% double.