Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Purchases from Pondside Gardens

Pondside Gardens offered a great selection of historical daylilies that I was excited to add to the gene pool of my Mother plants.

Pondside Gardens


Frankie's Fantasy

Mercer 1992

Dark Purple Spider Variant Self With Green Throat. Recurved, Rebloomer. Tet. Award Winner!! Honorable Mention 2000.

CORAL CRAB

Douglas 1954

4" bloom, 32" tall, Mid Season, Evergreen

Dainty spidery blooms of coral pink with ruffled edges.

White Stripe

Mullison/Hite 1984

height 25", bloom 5", season M, Dormant, Diploid, Near white spider with green throat. Variegated foliage

Grey Witch


REED (1999)
(TRAHLYTAX Unknown)
  • Height: 30”
  • Bloom Size: 6”
  • Ploidy: Dip
  • Dormancy: Dor
  • Bloom Season: EM
  • Branching:2
  • Number of buds: 15

Description: Spider Ratio 4.22:1, Gray lavender with purple eye above green throat.

Olive's Odd One

(PAULEY-Couturier, 1991)
height 40", bloom 6", season M, Rebloom, Dormant, Diploid, Paprika red with faint shadowy paprika red halo above green gold throat.


Mad Max

(Wilson-Schott, 1989) height 46, bloom 7, season M, Dormant, Diploid, UF Cascade. Rosy purple spider with deep purple eyezone and chartreuse throat.


Brown Witch

Reed, 1999 - 36" M 6" dor.dip. Spider. Brown with black eye and gold throat

Blue Moon Rising

Blue Moon Rising Salter, E.H., 1991

bloom 3", scape 24", midseason, rebloomer, dip, semi evergreen, pale Ivory-peach with Blue -violet eye


Quachita Beauty

OUACHITA BEAUTY (Pitard) 36", Ev., E.M.

Pretty pink-orchid pastel spider with orchid halo. Unusual. Extended blooming. Reblooms.

Saratoga Pinwheel

(Saxton, 1977) height 32", bloom 6.5", season M, Dormant, Tetraploid, Velvety red with cream edges and chartreuse throat.

On Silken Thread

Lambertson 98

Tet 36" M Evr 9" medium orange, burnt orange eye & edge above green throat,

bloom season M


Rocky Horror

Reed 1994

Purple to gray with deep purple black eyezone above green throat.

Godiva Jam


Weston 1996 Bitone Dormant
5.5" bloom, 26" height
Mid Season Tetraploid








More New Daylilies for 2011





Water Mill Gardens the daylilies of Dan and Jane Trimmer

Calamity Jane


Dan's description of the flower he named after his wife

CALAMITY JANE
(D. Trimmer) Tetraploid (Elisa Dallas x Priscilla’s Smile) 28” E. Re. Ev. 6 ½” You know I really like this one as it is the second cultivar I’ve named after my wife (smile.) Calamity Jane typically produces 30 buds and has 3 lateral branches. The stunning circular blooms are a dark pink with red eye and edge outlined by a gold outer edge. The throat is large and pale yellow green. Fertile both ways, she was my most heavily used pod parent last year. Calamity Jane is a vigorous grower and strong rebloomer. If you’ve liked any of my red eyed pink cultivars in the past you will love this one. She is special!

....just to be fair here is an intro by Jane his wife

This is one of my most looked forward to new daylilies, it's really different.

Twiggy's lavender

Here is Janes description of her daylily

TWIGGY’S LAVENDER
(Jane Trimmer) Tetraploid (Seedling x Seedling) 30” EM Re. 7 ¼” 2 lateral branches 20 buds Unusual From Crispate lavender with green throat. TWIGGY’S LAVENDER is descended from a long line of my breeding from the past decade. I crossed my U.F.’s with Dan’s long petaled Tets and Luddy Lambertson’s blue eyed UF’s along the way. TWIGGY’S LAVENDER is a durable but moderately increasing cultivar with with a flower that is more reminiscent of an orchid rather than a daylily! TWIGGY’S LAVENDER is a unusual beauty meant for a true collector of the unique.

to see more of the Trimmers intros click the link to their website

Welcome to Water Mill Gardens












Gossard intros purchased new for 2011


Heavenly Gardens Daylilies

Font sizeJames Gossard, World Class Daylily Producer,

Heavenly Gardens, located in Columbus Ohio,

zone 5,

takes pride in producing fine

Daylilies for your enjoyment.

Northern Hardy



Orange Firecat


(Gossard, Ryan) 2009 introduction

TET ( Heavenly Explosion x Red Eyed Jack )

28" M Dormant emo fr 6 1/2" 3 way branching 18 buds. Fertile both ways. Rebloomer

Flowers of Orange Firecat are bright orange with a large red eye above a green throat. Ryan keeps carrying on his large flower line. If you like them big, Orange Firecat is the one to buy. Ryan plans on using it with the tetra Peppermint Delight kids this year in the green house. Most of the Peppermint Delight kids are tender, so it is important to use a good hard dormant and Orange Firecat is such.

A great parent for big eyes ......$50

Time Wizard

(Gossard, James) 2009 introduction

(Gossard, J) Diploid {[(On the Dot x Malachite Prism) x [( Joseph's Coat x Elfin Etching)

x Spirited Style ]}

30" M Dormant emo fr 5 1/2" 4 way branching 25 buds. Very fertile both ways. Rebloomer

Flowers of Time Wizard are rose with a dark rose purple eye above a very green throat. Time Wizard is being introduced because it has been a wonderful parent for patterned eyes. As you can see, it has 3 different patterned flowers in it's genetics. It is the parent of many of Jamie Gossard future introductions .....$100


Pattern Maker

(Gossard, James) 2010 introduction

(Joseph's Coat x Elfin Etching x Spirited Style x Siloam Fine Art )

Diploid 29" Mid season Dormant emo fr 6.5" 3 way branching 18 buds. Fertile both ways. Rebloomer

Pattern Maker Gossard's best to date pattern maker flower. It stamps the patterns on its kids. It merges Salter's and Henry's best pattern genetics together. What sets it apart from all the rest of the pattern flowers, is that it is very hard dormant, but should still grow well in the south. I believe this to be true since it seems to do fine in the green house setting. It has been extremely difficult utilizing Salter genetics, which I find so valuable in hybridizing for patterns to create northern hardy patterned daylilies. Pattern Maker is the accumulation of 7 years of pattern hybridizing to get a broken pattern daylily, there is no diploid dormant better than Pattern Maker. The loss of color is in both the petals and sepals. More blue in the sepals than the petals. There are over 9 different zones of color loss and color change. Because of the triangular form, Pattern Maker can be used in round and spider hybridizing. Notice also that Pattern Maker is taller than any of its parents

(see below). If you are hybridizing for dormant patterns, do not miss out on this one. A great flower to cross with the patterned Carpenter introductions. Supply is Limited........$200

Heavenly Fire and Ice

(Gossard, James) 2010 introduction

( (Startling Creation x (Heavenly Fire Arrow x Wandering Wings x Heavenly Starfire ))

TET 37" MLa Dormant emo fr 7.5" 3-4 way branching 18-24 buds. Fertile both ways.

Heavenly Fire and Ice has creamy sherbet orange flowers with a strong orange red eyezone. It can have a lot of orange-red spots. Flowers appear to be orange-red with a creamy sherbet orange edge, such creates the illusion due to the huge eyezone. Bicolor with lighter sepal edges. It is an unusual formed crispate. A good parent for patterned spotted spider and unusual formed daylilies. A very nice garden daylily, wonderful in a clump ......$150

Thursday, July 23, 2009

more to identify

Gold with green throat, and faint midrib, 2foot variegated foliage, shorter scapes dark with red pink green and white scapes and buds, faint dark lines on back of bloom
thick sturdy blooms on very sturdy scapes


17 petals...Flore Pleno ??


12" plant, pale yellow flower, wine eye zone



30 " plus vigourous plant, orange bloom with red eyezone. Self fertile