This historic daylily is a mid-season blooming semi-evergreen, diploid. It is 40 inches tall with a 5 inch bloom. The flower has a spider with a ratio of 5:30:1. The color is difficult to describe (and to catch on film). I would call it coral or melon, but it has some more red/pink tones as well. It is a very open spider, the petals will recurve but they don’t twist at all and the green throat can be star shaped when the flower opens completely. The stamens are hot pink.
Bleeding heart has attractive mounded foliage with arching stems of delicate, heart-shaped flowers in spring. It thrives in moist woodland gardens along with ferns and other shade-lovers.They are deer resistant and this is the old fashioned gold variety favored for cottage gardens that has pink hearts and white teardrops falling from them.The plant is ephemeral which means that the foliage will die back after they flower and reappear the next spring. The gold variety does maintain its foliage longer than the standard green variety. You may notice seedlings; transplant them to a desired spot. $9.00
A rich velvety red 3.5 inch flower is held atop a 30 inch scape. There is a diamond dusted sheen that has an almost purple hew that grows deepertowards the gold/green throat.This plant is a dormant, diploid that is a very good grower and blooms mid-season but then re-blooms until frost.
This stately, historic daylily is 66 inches tall and has a 3 inch trumpet shaped flower that is golden yellow with a rusty orange eye zone. It is a mid-season/late bloomer; one of the latest in my garden, and it also blooms into the night. A dormant, diploid, it is also supposed to be fragrant and it has nice st
rong stems to support bunches of little flowers dancing well above the near by plants.
Although Mrs. Andrist is registered as a tall bearded iris she is really the size of an intermediate at just 20 inches.Many of these historic irise
s were shorter back then.She is an amoena (a color classification) that has pure white standards above purple falls, reticulated with white, including a white edge on the falls.The beard is sunny yellow.Share her often as she is a fast grower and also has the bonus of being fragrant.Originally listed in Mr. Fryer’s catalog from his business, Landsdown Farm, in Mantorville MN, in 1922.
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This historic miniature tall bearded iris is a sport of Honorabile. It was originally registered as TB but today is considered MTB. The standards are both white and yellow but are irregularly splotched and streaked, with no two being the same pattern.The falls too can differ in their color and pattern but are usually splashed with yellow, purple, and red; the coat of many colors. This type of pattern is called a “broken” pattern. The beards are lemon yellow.It stands about 20 inches tall and is a mid-season bloomer. Although it has been around since the 1930’s it was not introduced until 1989 by A. Katkamier. It is a fast grower and is very hardy. This iris was mixed up while naming in the 30’s with Kaleidoscope.That one also has a broken pattern but is a little more yellow in general. For this reason you will sometimes see it called Joseph’s coat Katkamier.
Variegated Kwanzo is unregistered, although it is historic as it was developed from a sport by the father of modern daylilies.It is a 3 foot tall mid to late bloomer with a three inch, hose-in-hose, double orange/red flowers.It’s main attractions is the variegated leaves (striped with white or cream).The plant is also unusual as it is a triploid (this means it has three sets of chromosomes where most have two or four).This makes it sterile but don’t worry, this plant has the ability to spread by runners.I would not recommend keeping it in your regular daylily beds.It is not as aggressive as the green form which has become a “ditch lily” in some places, but, do remove any plants that revert to green as they will spread faster.The variegation is different with every scapes, some are even pure white.Keep the ones that are interesting and get rid of the rest in a way that they won’t spread into the wild.We don’t ship this one early in spring because we want to make sure that each fan that we send has nice variegation.
This historic daylily is tall at 36 inches, but stands up well in the wind and is a fast grower.It sports masses of red 5 inch flowers that are red and have a very bright yellow mid rib and throat.It is a dormant diploid but is larger than most diploids.
This historic iris was registered as a TB but is now considered IB. It is really hardy and thrives on neglect. The name comes from the siren of the Rhine who with her song enchanted sailors and lured them to their death.
The standards are a glowing yellow while the falls are a velvety violet with distinct white and yellow veining and butter yellow edges. The beard is lemon yellow.
This plant is a vigorous grower with healthy foliage tinged at the base. Also a heavy bloomer. Cheerful!!
This historic tall bearded iris originally appeared in the 1910 Biltmore Nurseries catalog. It is a wild collected variety that is thought to be a naturally occurring hybrid. It was however once thought to be a separate species. A vigorous grower which flowers well and will persist even if not cared for. It is 30 inches tall.
Falls and standards are pale yellow with light olive veining while it seems to glow with a more buttery yellow inside. It has lemon yellow beards and it is also fragrant!
By Nesmith – 1940
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