GENTLE BONNIE SMITH

(Kirchhoff) 28" EE Re Ex Sev 6 ¾". The colors are delicate, dancing, like lemonade-to-cream-blushed-peach clouds, haloed in pink and punctuated by yellow to green throats. Truly, this is among the loveliest early pastel daylilies, an early morning opener, and the first large-flower of the season. The blooms are just as beautiful on the fourth set of rebloom scapes as the first. The color and substance remain crisp throughout the day. The form is circular, extremely full and widespread, displaying three and one half inch wide, round, overlapped, and lightly ruffled petals to perfection. The strongly recurrent scapes have 3-5 way branching, and hold 30 or more buds. It is both pod and pollen fertile and a fine parent. Selected by Mary Joyce Andrews from Panama City, FL, whose mother, known to all as Gentle Bonnie Smith, didn't make her traditional trek to Daylily World this year. We missed her cheer and hope she'll be visiting again soon.
(Big Doc x Seedling) X [(Seedling x Brown Eyed Girl) x (Seedling x Tet Elsie Spalding)]. JC AHS 2000.