David’s first cross was in 1958, and his love of daylilies continues unabated. He is perhaps best known for his red and double flowered cultivars, although his two Lennington All American daylilies - MING PORCELAIN and CHORUS LINE were shades of pink. His two Stout Medal award winners – BETTY WOODS, the first double ever to win is a golden yellow, as is his single flowered, BILL NORRIS. David eagerly anticipates the challenge of growing and hybridizing daylilies for northern hardiness. 
Mort Morss began hybridizing daylilies in 1971, and his cultivars are very popular and widely grown. His award winning, first introduction, was named INNER VIEW and it helped launch the popularity of patterned daylilies. Mort’s Lennington All American Award winning PAPER BUTTERFLY was the first widely acclaimed cultivar with a patterned eyezone. His unwavering pursuit of excellence in the realm of patterned flowers has resulted in a disproportionately large percentage of the most coveted patterned eyes and edges by cutting edge hybridizers world wide. The popularity of his cultivars is such that they usually sell out soon after they are offered and are beloved throughout the world. Lovely Annalilsa* |
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+ Lovely Annalisa $125.00
26” ML Re VFr Ex Sev 5 1/ 2”. The round, perfectly tailored flowers of H. ‘Lovely Annalisa’ evoke early spring and the splendor of magnolias. The flowers are a stunning peach, rose and pink bouquet in gradations ranging from pastel orchid, apricot and peach tones through pink-to-rose at the petals’ edge. The throat is yellow to green. Form is petaloid style with smoothly tailored, rounded segments. Scapes are branched three ways and are recurrent. This is a second-generation cultivar from H. ‘Glorious Autumn’, (crossed into a twentieth generation Kirchhoff double seedling). It is named for our friend of forty-five years, Annalisa Kervinen, whose beautiful singing on laundry day thrilled us every Saturday all those many years ago. A reluctant parent, giving beautiful seedlings. 99% Double