The Daylily Place: Best Parents Under $35 Poll

compiled by Bill Jarvis

March 05, 2001



Cultivar Zone Remarks

OMOMUKI 3

OPEN HEARTH 5 with wide petalled dips it can really increase flower size and still give a

few wide seedlings

Paper Butterfly 9

PURE AND SIMPLE 0 glowing orange sherbet color is unique

RADIANT MOONBEAM 6 produces seedlings in a wide range of colors and is a color clarifyer. It

produces many narrow kids, and is very vigorous. Absolutely fertile.

Rain Dance(Benz) 7

RED RAIN 6 gives very tall, vigorous spidery kids in pink, rose, and red. The colors are

clear, and it goes very large in the kids.

REGAL BRAID 5 give's pretty edged sdlgs

SALEM WITCH, Moldovan 5 parent of DIVINE COMEDY, BUCKINGHAM PALACE, and this year

Moldovan's 2001 LADY KAHN, will also throw UF's

Santiago Heat (Salter) 7

Serena Dancer 7

SERENA LADY* (Marshall) 5 Wonderful performance

SHISHEDO 0

SILKEN TOUCH (Stamile 90) 9

SILOAM DAUMS DOUBLE (Henry) 7 Almost always has a good pistil, fertile, pollen is powerful. Great kids!

Siloam David Kirchoff 5

Simply Sensational (E.Salter) 7

SMUGGLERS GOLD 5

SMUGGLERS GOLD 5 great looking - wide petaled seedlings

SMUGGLER'S GOLD 4

SOMETHING WONDERFUL 0

SOMETHING WONDERFUL (Salter 91) 9 Passes on great plant habits and edge

Something Wonderful (Salter) 7

SOMETHING WONDERFUL Salter 93 7 Pale ivory-cream with gold edge. Parent of such things as DIAMONDS

AND PEARLS, ED BROWN, AT FIRST BLUSH 7 FORSYTHE COMMANCHE.

Still being widely used. Great plant habits and rebloom.

SOUTH SEAS 5

SPANISH GLOW (Salter) 5 a hardy,evergreen tet with 45 buds that opens early and passes these

traits on

SPLENDID TOUCH (Stamile 94) 5 If your breeding tet.pinks, and you *don't* have this...good luck.

Splendid Touch (Stamile) 7

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These represent the preferences of people living and growing daylilies in about 45 States all around the US, as well as in Canada and in several other countries. They may not all do equally in all parts of the U.S. or the world, and they may not do as well in your garden ("your mileage may vary").

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