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. JULIE NEWMAR
(Morss) 32" EE Re Ex Sev 7" Only a unique flower of great
beauty would be appropriate to be named for so lovely a gardener and
"living work of art" as is Julie Newmar. She honors us by
selecting her namesake from nineteen exceptional possibilities. The
blooms are a pastel peach color, with a washed eye - in a web configuration
- having imperial purple colored webbing that outlines a watercolor
wash of violet lavender. The eye colors are echoed in a watermark design
on the sepals. In cool weather, the petals display a partial edge of
grape purple, outlined in pale yellow gold. As the heat intensifies,
the edge becomes spectacularly ornate and completely outlines the petal
edges in serrated grape plum up to ¼" wide. This plum edge
is bordered in a ¼" wide serrated, sharks tooth formation.
The exotically formed bloom opens early, is widespread, flat and narrow,
with 2 1/8" wide petals and 1 3/8" wide sepals. The color
and substance are unfazed by the hottest all day sun. As a parent, JULIE
is producing narrow and unusually formed seedlings with eyes and edges.
The strongly recurrent scapes have 3 - 5 way branching and up to 45
buds. The pollen is extremely fertile, and the pods are fertile.
[(Seedling x Fortune's Dearest) X Gerda Brooker].
