This daylily was acquired as a bonus at an auction with the Bad Buds (Bay Area Daylily). It is about 24 inches tall with a 4 inch bloom. It came from the daylily beds at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens obtained in the 1990’s. I kept it all these years because of the color which is a very clear purple with a darker purple eye band and a wide chartreuse eye. I don’t know what the MgPy means or who’s breeding program it came from.
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By Matel (not registered)
This miniature is a really unusual color. I don’t have good documentation on it but I think the pollen parent may be Desert Princess. I would call it dusty lavender. The edges are often pinched and sculpted and it also has a thin purple eye over a star shaped green throat. It is just 12” high with a 2.5 inch bloom. It’s a dormant, diploid and it blooms mid-season.
$11.00
By Matel (unregistered)
This seedling of Siloam French Marble is 15 inches tall with 4 inch rose to lavender blooms. They have a somewhat dusted and/or streaked appearance. The plant blooms mid-season and is a dormant diploid. It doesn’t have a garden name and you will get the whole plant so you can name it what you like.
$8.00
By Schaben – 2001
This violet daylily has a very interesting rose colored eye that has streaks extending outward. The green throat has a white band surrounding it that also has the streaks going through it. There is also a white picotee edge with a slight ruffle. She is 28 inches tall with a 6 inch bloom. This daylily is an evergreen, tetraploid that blooms mid-season. No trouble with hardiness, but she does not grow fast in the north due to being evergreen.
Parentage: (Tupac Amaru × (Angel’s Smile × Secret Splendor))
Awards: HM 2004
$12.00
By Apps – 1995
Pasqueflower is a cute miniature with a bloom size of just 2.5 inches. It is listed at 26 inches but I don’t think it is that tall for me. It is a dormant, diploid that blooms mid-season. The color is light purple with a bright violet eye and a green throat.
Parentage: ((Little Grapette × Monica Marie) × (seedling × Little Squiz))
$10.00
Unregistered Seedling – By Matel – 2015
This was one of the first crosses I did. I was working on a miniature dark daylily. In bright light he is rich red and at twilight or in the shade he looks dark purple. The color fades to a darker shade near the slightly ruffled edge and near the eye zone. There are some white accents and sometimes a very thin white edge and mid rib. The throat is gold turning green. The plant is 18 inches tall and the flowers are 3 inches on this dormant diploid.
Parentage: Krentz seedling Pardon the Pun x (Family Ties x Latin Lover)
$15.00
By P & L Korth – 2015
I love this lily, described as lavender, but to my eye it has blue in it for sure. The eye zone is first deep blue violet with another band that is a lighter shade of blue violet and has eyelashes that shoot out. The ruffled edge matches as it is dipped first in the darker shade and then the lighter shade of blue violet. She is a great bloomer with a 21 buds on 4 branches and is a sturdy dormant, tetraploid. The height is 33 inches and the flowers are 5.5 inches.
Parentage: ((Tet. Lavender Blue Baby x Destined to see) x ( Upon This Rock x Tet. Lavender Blue Baby) x Secret Ambition
$32.00
By Heemskerk – 2019
This black/purple daylily is actually the color that the registration photo shows (much darker than the photo I have here). It is 20 inches tall with a 5 inch bloom. It is an early midseason bloomer and a dormant, tetraploid. It has not rebloomed for me but we are pretty far north and it is supposed to be double 50% of the time but it has not yet doubled for me. Still a nice very dark daylily with a green throat that practically glows in the dark.
$9.00
By Apps – 1990
A midseason bloomer; this is my favorite of the darks. It does not get sun spots as easily as some of them. Near black with black cherry hints and a slightly darker eye zone; this one can sometimes develop silver points on the lower petals. The large chartreuse throat really stands out in the darkness. The plant is a dormant, diploid that is 30 inches tall and has a 5 inch bloom.
$12.00
By Gossard, 2001
This sometimes pinched and curled spider displays a variety of forms. The 8.5 inch flowers of this dormant, diploid have a green throat and a dark eye. This plant is fertile with tall (40 inch) but sturdy well branched scapes.
Parents: Starman’s Quest x Earl of Warwick
$14.00