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. 2010 Introductions...
Double Flowered Daylilies
We made our first double tetraploid crosses in 1973, a time when there were less than twenty named tetraploid double daylilies in existence. We registered our earliest tetraploid double daylilies in 1980. This form continues to evolve into ever more complex of patterns, shapes, sculpting and color. We know you will enjoy our new ones for 2010!
+ Annalisa $125.00
26” ML Re VFr Ex Sev 5 1/ 2”. The round, perfectly tailored flowers of H. ‘Annalisa’ evoke early spring and the splendor of magnolias. The flowers are a stunning peach, rose and pink bouquet in gradations ranging from pastel orchid, apricot and peach tones through pink-to-rose at the petals’ edge. The throat is yellow to green. Form is petaloid style with smoothly tailored, rounded segments. Scapes are branched three ways and are recurrent. This is a second-generation cultivar from H. ‘Glorious Autumn’, (crossed into a twentieth generation Kirchhoff double seedling). It is named for our friend of forty-five years, Annalisa Kervinen, whose beautiful singing on laundry day thrilled us every Saturday all those many years ago. A reluctant parent, giving beautiful seedlings. 99% Double
+ Joan Jackson $250.00
29” EM Re Ex Ev 6 1/ 2”. This exceptional new, dark, double eggplant-to-violet-purple is a paragon of great color depth and clarity. Folks stop to admire and comment on its impeccable plant habit and great beauty. The consistently double blooms are petaloid form - measuring up to nearly seven inches in diameter and their velvety texture and deep rich color hold remarkably well. It is a strong rebloomer in Florida and Kentucky, with three to four way branching and nearly thirty buds. We are thrilled to name this for our friend, Joan Jackson, whose relatively new garden is set like a jewel in suburban Richmond, Virginia. Very pod fertile and fine a parent. It is our first introduction from eight generations of breeding that began with the cross (Seedling x Purple Plum) X Fortune’s Dearest, a line of toothy edged, purple doubles. 99% Double.
+ Nashville Ballet*
$150.00
26” L Re Ex Ev 5”. The color is clear, bright vermillion with a darker, frosted red halo and yellow to green throat. Most of our doubles tend to be round forms but this tailored beauty is a step closer to in form to being a UFO type. The form is consistently of the petaloid type. The blooms are silky with diamond-dusted texture. A tiny, narrow, yellow gold edge encircles all segments. It was selected to be the daylily to represent Nashville’s Ballet Company by Nashville’s Pat Bullard, Trustee of Nashville’s LifeWorks Foundation. She and Barbara Mandrell were instrumental in establishing the fabulous Nashville Music Garden. Recurrent scapes. Fertile (will give a boost to UFO double breeding). 98% Double.
+ Marmalade Truffle* $125.00
(Kirchhoff) 28” EM Re Ex Ev 5 1 /2”. The blooms are a gorgeous tropical color in shades of citrus, tangerine, rose-peach and pink. A wide center petal stripe on the outer petals gives the display extra punch and pizzazz. The throat is yellow to green. The form is full, with overlapped, tight, piecrust ruffled petals. The petaloid midribs are prominent and lavishly ruffled. Substance and color hold well. Recurrent scapes. Moderately fertile. 98% Double.
Double Flowered Daylilies
Our singles continue to excite and enchant. Preceded by some of the most award winning singles in history these new cultivars promise great potential for both the garden and for hybridizing!
Angels Share* $175.00
(Morss) 30” EM Re Ex Ev 6 1 /2”. The bloom is on the pink side of lavender and it has a wide, cloverleaf patterned, watermark halo and yellow-to-green throat. Both the throat and the watermark are heavily diamond dusted. The big green heart radiates outward in subtle suffusions to the petal’s edge. Clear, piecrust shaped, cellophane pleats and ruffles encircle the petals. The blooms shimmer and shine with great color clarity, recurrent scapes and three-way branching. The Kentucky bourbon makers dedicate a portion of the world’s finest bourbons to the angels, calling it “Angel’s Share”. Mort’s new pastel is a cool paragon, and an extraordinary plant. It is a fine parent with easy fertility both ways. This one is for the angels.
Blue Mirage* $150.00
(Morss) 28” ML Re Ex Ev 4 7 /15”. The color is clear – in shades of violet with a blue violet watermark eye and yellow-to-green throat. Somewhere in shades between violet and indigo, is the color of the blue-violet watermark (mirage) eye. The form is full with wide, overlapped, tightly ruffled segments. The texture is smooth and silky. This plant is extremely pod and pollen fertile, giving exceptionally clear seedlings with patterns, watermarks and eyes in the “blue” realm. Strongly recurrent scapes. Very fertile.
Folkert Schellekens* $150.00
(Morss) 30” EM Re Ex Ev 6 1/ 2”. It is silky, diamond-dusted, peachy-pink flower with a big, bluish amethyst halo and a wide, matching, inside edge. A wide, creped & pleated outer yellow edge encircles the wide, bluish inner amethyst edge. The first blooms are up to 7” wide and the seedlings often are giants. Named for our friend Folkert, originally from the Netherlands, who moved to Belgium where he pursues daylilies with Jon Benoot. Jon says, “Daylilies brought us to the US for having some visits to several hybridizers. It was at Daylily World that we saw an amazing blue-eyed seedling that matched perfectly with Folkert's blue eyes. This circular bloom has a nice ruffled double edge matching the eye on a pink base colour formed from overlapping petals. Folkert is honored to have this plant named for him.” A beautiful plant from H. ‘Scott Bennett’ breeding. Fertile, and an important parent.
Labyrinth* $100.00
(Morss) 30” E Re Ex Fr Ev 5 3 /4”. Its color is deepest wisteria-amethyst, punctuated by a shaded (patterned), blue-lavender watermark halo above a yellow-to-green-throat. The eye is in three zones of color – blue-lavender outlined in violet. In the center of each petal’s watermark, are two oval patterns of slate intersecting the lavender portion. A tiny, narrow white border rings the finely serrated deepest red edges. Smooth and silky, the substance and color hold reasonably well. Recurrent, well branched scapes. Fertile both ways.
Loosy Goosy* $100.00
(Kirchhoff) 36” M Re Ex Sev 9”. This daylily is a showy new addition to the extra large flowered category in medium orange and paprika with a feathered, darker red orange halo. The throat is yellow-to-green. The form is open and narrow with raised midrib on the petals. A vigorous grower, a consistent, strong performer and a show flower. A clump of Loosy Goosy is a beacon in the garden. Recurrent, well branched scapes.
Marilyn Morss Johnson $225.00
(Morss) 30” EM Re Sev 7". What makes this daylily so special is the form, color and pattern. All combine to create the perfect focal point. The color is medium orchid with a fascinating, layered blue-lavender, and violet-purple, patterned eye. The throat is yellow-to-green. The petals are edged in pewter to white. The form is graceful and exotic, with elegantly shaped, long, narrow petals. Texture is silky and diamond dusted. So unique and extraordinary that we named it for Mort’s twin sister who gardens in California and loves daylilies and daylily people. The scapes are strongly recurrent with 25 buds and 3-way branching. Fertile and an exceptional parent for narrow and full formed flowers, patterns and eyes. Compare at $350.00. {[(Counted Shadows × Julie Newmar) × (Julie Newmar × Blues Avenue)] × [(Sdlg × Julie Newmar) × Sdlg]}
Nashville Symphony* (Morss) $175.00
34” ML Re Ex Ev to Sev 6 3/ 4”. The base color of this flower is a scintillating pastel with glittering highlights of lavender, conch-pink and apricot-cream. The eyezone is flashes of pastel-blue, shell-pink, pewter, lavender and powder-platinum foil, shimmering above the yellow-to-green-throat. The blooms are silky, diamond sparkled bliss: primal, splendid, and edged in gold filament. We are extremely proud that Pat Bullard and Alan Valentine at the Nashville Symphony chose this cultivar to bear the name of one of the world’s great symphony orchestras. Imagine the subtle whisper of a Stradivarius sustaining the note A880 (one octave above A440), pianississimo It now grows with the fabulous daylilies, H. ‘Barbara Mandrell’ and H. ‘Nashville Ballet’ in the exciting Nashville Music Garden Collection. Strongly recurrent, vigorous plants with great branching and bud-count. Recurrent with three- way branching and 25 or more buds.
Ricardo Red* $100.00
(Kirchhoff) 34” L Re Ex 5 ¾”. It is all about the performance of this bright red cultivar – (perhaps a shade on the orange side) with incredible branching and bud count. There is a subtle red halo and the small yellow to green throat forms a small, three-pointed star pattern. An EMO, the form is full with tight pleats and piecrust edges. The texture is silky. The recurrent scapes have four-to-five way branching. Its namesake is David’s wonderful anesthesiologist who is an extraordinary epidural wizard par excellence.
Saddle up* $100.00
(Kirchhoff) 30*” M VFr Re 12”. This exotic flower is a handsome, teak colored giant with highlights of burnished copper and gold. The contrasting eyezone is cedar-mahogany above the yellow to greenish throat. Lighter midribs add interest to the long, narrow petals. Visitors never failed to point to this showy clump, even when viewed from across the garden. The plants are vigorous with narrow foliage in good proportion. Scapes are well branched and recurrent.
Shape Shifter* (Morss) $150.00
26” EM Re Ex Ev – 6”. Named for the enhanced, variable sculpting at the heart, throat and eyezone of the flower, the bloom is frequently formed with ridges and extra inner frills as pronounced and fascinating as we have seen. Oh, what a look! This cultivar would be a standout in the garden with its double ornate double edges and clear color, even if it were not sculpted, perhaps 50% of the time! A dark plum-eye and edge clearly contrasts the butter yellow base and yellow-to-green-throat. Wide, ornate, yellow gilt encircles the fancy, dark plum edge. Recurrent scapes. Fertile pollen fertile it occasionally will form pods, though not easily. (Seedling x Jackie Kropf) X Seedling.
Vino di Travis* (Morss) $150.00
29” M Re Ex Ev 6”. This is an exceptional, intense wine purple with violet eyezone and veining. The form is flat and round, with wide, overlapped segments that roll back a bit in warmer weather. The color is quite sunfast for being so saturated. The scapes have three - four way branching and thirty or more buds. This stellar performer shows great promise and produces lush plants. It is a great breeder and is fertile both ways. One of our garden mentors and great friends is the renowned textile designer and artist, Luther Travis, a Renaissance man, and daylily connoisseur. His New Jersey farm and garden are a plant lover’s delight. This imperial purple daylily is a toast to Luther and gardeners everywhere. (Unvanquished X Tet Lavender Blue Baby)
Whiskey Fire *$125.00
(Kirchhoff) 40” ML Re Ex Sev 7 1 /4”. The blooms on this huge flower are a burnished red-orange with glints of cedar and mahogany, punctuated by a deeper rosewood halo above the yellow-to-green-throat. The color and substance are exceptionally sunfast. The form is full and flat with huge looping ruffles edged in gold. The petals are up to 4 inches wide on a 7-inch flower. Spectacular in giant specimen clumps, the plants are huge and in great proportion to the well-branched, recurrent scapes which hold the giant blooms well above the foliage. Fertile both ways.
Xochipilli* $125.00
(Kirchhoff) 28” M Re Ex Ev 5 1 /2”. Briefly described, the blooms are a stippled orange plicatta on top of orange-red. Named for the Aztec god of agriculture, flowers, music, song, poetry, and dance, this bold new cultivar is remarkable for its distinction and is distinct in a number of ways. Shades of cedar, orange and mahogany red form the plicatta or stippled (or dotted), burnished overlay above medium-orange. The overall impression is red orange and gold. Yellow webbing flashes out from the semi-sculpted halo formed by closely spaced dots, above a yellow to green throat. The serrated edges are wine red. Three way branching, recurrent, fertile.
For Delivery after July 1, 2010
We can ship these two beautiful daylilies as soon as they bloom. During the lining process (propagation) we may have switched the labels, and need to insure the correct identity of the plants.
+ Mother Jones Truffle* $125.00
38” L Re Ex Ev 6”. The color is peach pink and the blooms open early, in full, petaloid form. This luscious peach color deepens into a rose halo,over the yellow to green throat. Texture is smooth and diamond dusted. The color and substance are sunfast. Mother Jones Truffle reblooms three times in KY, with strong, well-branched scapes that hold the blooms well above the foliage. Very fertile. 98% double.
Rosalie’s Smile (Morss) $125.00
32” L Re Ex Sev to D 5”. This cultivar was in full bloom last summer when the Southwest Indiana Daylily Society’s tour bus stopped at Daylily World. Visitors stopped to admire the buttery beauty with bold plum edge and eye above the green throat. In addition to its explosive performance, and amazing spectacle, experts declare that it is a bud builder. Named for
Future Introduction
Barbara Mandrell