JERRY PATE WILLIAMS

(Kirchhoff) 25" E Re Ex VFr Ev 5 ¾" - 6". Named for our friend, Jerry Williams of Cincinnati - daylily connoisseur and creator of a picture-book perfect garden overflowing with daylilies. Jerry Pate Williams is among the finest, most consistently formed double tetraploids we have ever seen. The sunfast color is intense peach with melon and pink overtones, diamond dusting and a smooth seersucker texture. There is a faint yellow watermark halo, outlined in rose-rouge. The petals and petaloids present tightly serrated, ruffled and pleated yellow gold edges. The peony-style form displays six additional petaloids with raised, ruffled midribs. The illusion is a flower-within-a-flower - framed within a wide, outer set of petals. We have observed this cultivar closely for 5 years, and have never seen it misbehave. Scapes are well branched and strongly recurrent. Extremely fertile pods and pollen, and our best parent of tetraploid doubles. Clovette Adams X [(Layers Of Gold x Ruffled Dude) X (Layers of Gold x Noble Virtue)] 100% double.