2006 double flowers

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from David Kirchhoff

Monet would have loved these daylilies and so will you! Some artists use paint and some use musical instruments. Some work with glass and some work with marble. Others work with hair, cosmetics, wood, charcoal and paper – while bronze, decoupage, quilting, ikebana and tea ceremonies have great appeal. We have tried a number of mediums ourselves – music, gourmet cooking, oil painting, pencil drawing, ceramics, greasepaint, pastels, writing, and others - but along with thousands of other wonderful folks, we find daylilies the most beguiling, magical, and transcendental of them all.

2006 single flowers

from Mort Morss

Much has been written of Mort Morss’s hybridizing genius. His unwavering pursuit of excellence in the realm of patterned daylilies has resulted in a disproportionately large percentage of the most important patterns and eyes in daylily history. From H. ‘Inner View’ to H. ‘Paper Butterfly’; H. ‘Always Afternoon’ to H. ‘Witch Stitchery’ to H. ‘Simply Divine’; H. ‘Gerda Brooker’ to H. ‘Julie Newmar’; H. ‘Fortune’s Dearest’ to H. ‘Counted Shadows’; H. ‘Chromatic Butterfly’ to H. ‘Scott Bennett’, and all the rest, his widely anticipated masterpieces often sell out over night.  This year’s offering of Mort’s introductions is one of the strongest ever assembled! We hope you will soon let us know which ones you wish (supply really is limited) to grow in order to insure delivery.

The Reverend*
$125

from Dr. Kevin Vaughn

Kevin is a USDA weed scientist - a Plant Physiologist and has three major areas of research interest: herbicide mode of action, herbicide resistance and weed biology.  His studies classified about one third of the herbicides into groups that assist growers in rotating herbicide types to prevent the appearance of resistant weeds.

Kevin is an internationally known authority on immuno-cytochemistry in plants producing over 160 research articles and reviews in his career.  He was the Mid South area USDA Scientist of the Year and selected Young Weed Scientist of the Year by the Weed Science Society of America. His credits are far too numerous for space to allow.

When he isn’t playing oboe and English horn with the Jackson Ms Symphony Orchestra, Kevin is busy hybridizing. He has many different genera in commerce, including iris, tradescantha and hostas. He also is keen on hybridizing ivy (no easy task). We are honored to recommend these two incredibly fine daylily cultivars.