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. 2011 Introductions...
Double Flowered Daylilies
+Farmville Party Time* (Kirchhoff) 28” ML Re Ex Ev 6.5”. The self-color is bright, medium yellow with a wide cedar-coral-rose halo above a yellow to green throat. The form is full, wide, and petaloid style. A profusion of bloom covers the plants over a long stretch of the bloom season. Sturdy, recurring scapes with up to six way branching can support thirty-five or more buds. Once ‘Farmville Party Time’ gets going, it truly is party time in the garden. The throat is yellow to green. Very fertile both ways, it comes from (Dutch Yellow Truffle & Truffle Belles) breeding. Seventy-seven percent double. $100.00
+Jeanne Rowles* (Kirchhoff) 30” M Re Ex Ev 6.5” – 7”. Seldom in a lifetime is a new cultivar as thrilling as this glittery new petaloid double. Its flowers are very large and the self-color is a beautiful shade of pink. Its cloverleaf shaped eye sparkles in lovely shades of pastel yellow. The petal edges are lavish in yellow and gold gilt. Both the color and substance are sunfast and the texture is diamond dusted. The scapes are recurrent, displaying the blooms to perfection. Its namesake is our friend, the teacher, homemaker, and gardener, Pittsburgh Iris and Daylily Society stalwart, Jeanne Rowles. Jeanne, husband Larry and daughter Brieana's Pittsburgh garden is an urban jewel. Fabulous parent. Collection orders will be filled first. Very limited. Ninety-eight percent double. $225.00
+Tay Tay La Breene* (Kirchhoff) 26” E Re Ex Ev 5 .5”. 'Tay Tay La Breene' is to the garden as is the most dazzling chandelier in castle. These luminously sculptured, petaloid formed, double-flowers are everything covetable, chic and edgy. An effortless, uninhibited performer, 'Tay Tay La Breene' is a key breeder and a garden beacon. The sunfast color is a luscious, near white, yellow-cream, with ornately shaped edges in bright yellow gold. It beguiles, as does its namesake, Kentucky equestrian, landscape architect, Renaissance woman, beloved mother, grandmother, and friend – Taylor Breene. Its scapes are beautiful and they just keep coming. The pollen is fertile, though its pods are reluctant. One hundred percent double (or as close as any ever are). Collection orders will take precedence, as stock is very limited. Please order early to insure a spring shipment. (Big Peach Mama x Trufflicious) X Tay Tay’s Papa $250.00
+Tay Tay’s Papa* (Kirchhoff) 25” M Re Ex Ev 6.5 – 7”. This ‘Trufflicious’ offspring is reminiscent of its phenomenal parent. It is a parent of the phenomenal Tay Tay La Breene. Tay Tay’s Papa is an amazing parent and performer by any standards; it is a new benchmark and a powerful parent, yielding clear colored cream-to-near white, ornately edged, double seedlings. The form of this petaloid double is luscious, with lavish filigree and gold edges. The petals are diamond dusted; the color and substance are sunfast. Tay Tay’s Papa is a prolific bloom producer and is its scapes are recurrent. Easily fertile and an important parent. 99% double. (Seedling x Trufflicious) $100.00
+Truffles Milanese* (Kirchhoff) 30” ML Re Ex Ev 5.25”. This bright apricot, melon peach hose-in-hose, petaloid double is our first release from ‘Barbara Watts’ breeding. It is like some sort of visual nepenthe with its exotic Mediterranean colors and sculptural form. The color and substance are sunfast. The texture is porcelainesque and diamond dusted. The scapes are strong and recurrent. Although it is a reluctant pod parent, the pollen is quite fertile. (Seedling X Barbara Watts) $150.00
Single Flowered Recommendations
Barbara Mandrell* (Kirchhoff) 30" EM, Re Ev 6.25". The self-color of this flower is candied-berry-red infused with layers of Christmas, Chinese and intense cardinal! A dollop of green punctuates the throat. The colors evoke Christmas and its namesake, beloved music legend, Barbara Mandrell, who was born on Christmas Day. A bright watermark halo contrasts the lacquered red self-color and a sparkling-gold filigree encircles the petals. Its color and substance are sunfast; the texture is smooth and silky. This daylily is a proven parent, producing bright, opulent red, rose and purple seedlings with fancy edges and great clarity. Barbara Mandrell provided the inspiration needed for Pat Bullard of Lifeworks Foundation to create the Nashville Music Garden, an oasis in downtown Nashville. (Twenty Five dollars from each sale will be donated to the Nashville Music Garden). Soon this American icon’s namesake will blaze, as has no red daylily before it. The recurrent scapes have four way branching and 25 or more buds. Collection orders will take precedence, as stock is very limited. Please order early to insure shipment. (((Betty Ford × Hoochie Coochie Man) × Sdlg) × (Seattle Dreaming × Painting the Roses Red)) $275.00
Blue Tooth* (Morss) 30” EM Re Ex Ev 5.5”. This elegant flower gets its name for the blued pewter teeth that extend outward from its violet/silver petal and sepal edges. A tremendous presence in pastel, lavender orchid with an eye that begins above the small green throat as gold overlay which shades into blue lavender and lilac outlined in violet. Blue Tooth gives up glorious performances on erect, recurrent, well-branched scapes. $125.00
Candy Apple Velvet* (Kirchhoff) 35” EM Re Ex Ev 5.5”. Gary Shindler from Sterling Heights, Michigan spotted this as a seedling while visiting our garden in 2006. He carried it home to Michigan where it proves to be every bit as exciting as in Florida. The color is a vivid red (Gary says it is the clearest he has ever seen), intense and rich in color. There is a small yellow to green throat just below a wide watermark halo. A blue sheen sometimes seems to envelop the flower. An EMO. The petals are ruffled and pleated on the edge; beautiful, recurrent scapes hold the flowers. Pollen very fertile. $150.00
Farmville Fringe* (Kirchhoff) 24” M Re Ex Ev 4.5”. The self-color is saturated pink peach; both the eye and heavy fringe are a strong carrot rose red; throat is yellow-to-green. The exquisite filigree edge is twice fantastic in rose red, surrounded in gold. The blooms are gorgeous, dainty and petite with smooth, porcelain like surface and substance. A connoisseur’s flower, dependably rebloomng here in the Kentucky bluegrass. (((Virginia Little Henson x Seedling) x (Virginia Little Henson x seedling)) X (Seedling X Virginia Little Henson)) $100.00
Farmville Gold* (Kirchhoff) 29” M Re Ex Ev 5.75”. This one’s flower is all about its color and garden presence. Pure, golden saturation of burning intensity mark this beacon of beauty from one end of the valley to the other! It is a deepest gold self with an avocado green throat. The texture of the full formed flower is silky smooth. Scapes are recurrent with 21 buds. {(Great Goodness Gracious x Seedling) x Seedling) $125.00
Farmville Stained Glass* (Kirchhoff) 22” EM Re Ex Ev 5.5”. Early in the season, before the heat teases the form to recurve, its blooms measure 6 5” across. This is a glorious blood-to-rose red color with blue red highlights shaded with a wide, rose watermark. The throat is yellow to green. The petals are lavishly ruffled and outlined in pastel yellow. It is a perfect choice for landscape use anywhere in the garden, from carefree perennial borders, breeding to the show table. The recurrent scapes are phenomenally well branched with up to six way branching and up to 40 buds. Its beauty really is hypnotic. Fertile. Consistently healthy and disease-resistant. $125.00
Ganymede* (Morss) 30” M Re Ex Ev 5.5”. This flower is a long awaited, much anticipated peach with a quadruple (or more) wing patterned, watermark eyezone. The rings and wings are an interplay of dark pewter, lavender, wine and orchid shadings above an apricot throat. We have observed as many as eight ripples of color within the patterned eye. The edges are a rich wine color. It is a strong grower and of slow-to moderate increase. Scapes are strongly recurrent and well branched. Fertile both ways. Very limited. Collection orders will take precedence, as stock is very limited. Please order early to insure shipment. $300.00
Honeybunch Sweetie Pie* (Morss) 30” M Re Ex Ev 4.5”. With a base color of orchid lavender, the watermark halo flashes shades of pewter, gray, platinum and metallic-lavender. It is named to honor David’s good friends Doug and Colleen Miller whose pet name for each other is ‘honey bunch’. The petal edges are palest grey lavender and the bloom is punctuated with a yellow to green throat. The recurrent scapes have four way branching and twenty-five buds or more. Very fine! Fertile and easy to use. Limited. $100.00
Italian Riviera* (Kirchhoff) 30” EE Re Ex Ev 5.5”. We have never seen a daylily that resembles this round, blood red cultivar with white edge and small yellow-to-green throat. The round form is consistently quite flat and full with delightful variations. It shows varied and strongly sculpted shapes with interesting ruffling as the season unfolds. The scapes are strongly recurrent. Pollen is fertile and pods reluctant. Stock is quite limited. Please compare this unique and beguiling flower with any red, any price. $125.00
Lunar Lagoon* (Morss) 30” M Re Ex Ev 5”. A quick glance and one sees a green overlay to this lovely pastel yellow with double to triple zone, web-pattern eyezone. The patterned eye is shades of lavender and purple, with a wine outline that sets it off to great effect. The piecrust edge repeats the colors in the eyezone and it often sprouts a pretty set of teeth. Its large throat is yellow to green and the shape is quite flat. The texture is smooth; substance is heavy; color is sunfast. Fertile. Scapes have three way branching and 20-25 buds. Very limited. $125.00
Paradise Regained* (Morss) 29” EM Re Ex Ev 4.25”.Clear color, consistency, diamond dusting, dollops of green, delicate filigree, delightful, downright devastating beauty in one flower is thrilling from first flower open to the final flourish of rebloom. Dazzling, moonlit luminosity is its hallmark. The self-color is almond shell tan with a large violet eye and purple veins. A wine outline encircles the eye - The edge color reflects the beauty of the eyezone in a band of sparkling platinum, wine, purple, violet and silver-fairy lights in the sun. This is a masterpiece in pony sized, perfectly formed blooms. Elegant recurrent scapes with beautiful branching and bud-count. Supply is extremely limited. $150.00
Peppermint Kisses* (Morss) 29” E Re Ex Ev 4”. A wide, ruffled raspberry rose red band around the petals edges frames these jewel toned beauties. The self-color is pink and the eyezone is a sultry raspberry rose red. An inner eyezone shades from the lime green throat color to the raspberry of the wide outer eyezone. It is a consistent performer year after year, from flower to flower and over an extended season. Recurring scapes are proportionate and they average around 27 buds. Fertile. Limited! (Just Like candy X Head Turner) $100.00
Redtailed Fox* (Kirchhoff) 32” EE Re Ex Ev 5.25”. It is the color of passion. It is on the red side of rose-red, intense and saturated. The color deepens as it shades into a small yellow to green throat. The form of the flower unfolds differently in the earliest part of the season, sometimes with unusual, variable and attractive sculpting, often echoing the patterns in throat’s color and texture. The ruffles are wide and pleated. Being extra early, Red Tailed Fox is one of the few highest caliber reds in bloom when it turns on in the garden explodes with color. Recurrent. Fertile. {((Leonard Bernstein x Sdlg) X (Sdlg x Leonard Bernstein)) x Sdlg)) $125.00
Riviera Scarlet* (Kirchhoff) 30” E Re Ex Ev 5.75”. Named for a customer (she claimed to be a jazz-singer at a Bessemer City, AL nightclub) whose stage name was “Riviera Scarlet”. Blooms appear covered in layers of lipstick -seemingly upholstered in luminous black-red velvet. The form is flat and widespread and displays a dramatically patterned, yellow to green throat. Petals are discreetly ruffled and they roll back fetchingly as the season progresses. Reblooms. Fertile. $125.00
Wagon Dragon* (Kirchhoff) 30” E Re Ex Sev 4.75”. The color is blood-red overall, with a blue sheen. During part of the bloom cycle, the sepals become a lighter rose-red color and the flowers become a bitone. The form is unforgettable with dramatically ruffled edges and sepals – often edged in near white. A clump of this is as a spellbinding display of color – from one end of the garden to another. The scapes have four way branching and are strongly recurrent. Fertile both ways. $125.00