SHE’S ONE OF THE CAPTAIN’S KIDS

Captain Jack x Forty Days and Forty Nights

5 1/2” bloom, 34” tall

4 way branching / 18 buds

Tetraploid

Bloom season: early mid


Foliage: dormant


CAPTAIN JACK x

FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS

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She’s One of the Captain’s Kids – Hunter 2024

This flashy bitone livens up the early-mid bloom season and continues over a long period of time due to good scape density. The rhubarb-purple petals have a grey-purple band and gold filagree edges that can sometimes be toothy. The filigree edges on CAPTAIN JACK reminded its hybridizer (gary Schaben) of Captain Jack Sparrow, from the movie, Pirates of the Caribbean. Jack Sparrow loved his flashy jewelry. Apparently this kid does too. Her diamond dusting on the tepals make the clump really pop in the sun.

The throat is green, transitioning to greenish-yellow before reaching the grey-purple band. Lightly brushed with rhubarb, the cream sepals are slightly ruffled with a fine cream edge. The Kid has good substance, and very consistent full form blooms. Tall, well branched scapes are in balance with the attractive, vigorous clump of foliage, and display the flowers perfectly above it. Pod and pollen fertile, she would be a good choice to create early bloomers.


$90 / double fan


PRAIRIE’S EDGE MEGAN LEIGH

Repeat The Sounding Joy x Violet Victory

5 bloom, 31” tall

3-4 way branching / 15 buds

Tetraploid

Bloom season: mid


Some rebloom


Foliage: semi-evergreen


UF quilled crispate

REPEAT THE SOUNDING JOY x

VIOLET VICTORY

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Prairie’s Edge Megan Leigh – Hunter 2024

Very consistent, and long a favorite of visitors to the garden. When it was in bloom for the first time, one of my mentors (Ginny Pearce) passed by hundreds of pretty faces, until she stopped and pointed at this one. Maybe in another 10 years I will develop that eye. Megan is a lovely mulberry rose with a green heart that bleeds into an eggplant band. The lightly ruffled petals are edged in eggplant and white. Gently quilled sepals have a fine white edge. Having good substance, the blooms don’t mind rain, and still are pretty at the end of the day in spite of their dark color. Tall, sturdy scapes display the almost always perfect blooms nicely above attractive foliage.

I have seen some instant rebloom, but not enough to register her as such. If I provided water and fertilizer, I would probably see more, but the plants don’t get that kind of help here. Fertile both ways and hoping to get more consistent rebloom in her progeny, while keeping what I can of her substance, color, form, and branching. Is that asking too much? I crossed her with a sibling that DOES rebloom, so fingers crossed. As with several of my other introductions, this one was chosen by my friend Ellen to add to her growing family namesake garden.

$95 / double fan

PETIT FOUR A LA PRAIRIE’S EDGE

seedllng x Chariot of Clouds

 

5 bloom, 32” tall

3-5 way branching / 15 buds

Tetralploid

Bloom season: mid


Reblooms reliably

Cristate 90 %


Foliage:
semi-evergreen

(CAPTIVE TUNE x
DRIPPING WITH GOLD)
X CHARIOT OF CLOUDS

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Petit Four a la Prairie’s Edge – Hunter 2024

The motive behind making the above cross was an attempt to fancy up a boring, sometimes ugly face on an incredibly robust plant with good branching. In hybridizing, sometimes you get what you’re hoping for, sometimes you get garbage, and sometimes you get a total surprise. I did indeed fancy up the boring face, but was shocked when this first bloomed, because I do not hybridize for the cristate form. I was even more shocked when it continued to show this form every year. I got the vigor and good branching that I was hoping for, but the cristate form and rebloom caused me to perform an embarrassing happy dance in the garden.

When it has a good hair day, the blooms resemble the dainty French cakes known as petits fours. When it has a bad hair day, it looks like someone had a sneezing fit while squeezing the icing tube.
The tepals of PETIT FOUR are burnt coral. The cristate tissue along the petal midribs is also burnt coral and is edged with cream. Cream edges the lightly ruffled petals. Sometimes it takes more than 1 day for the bloom to open all the way. Blooms are usually cristate, but inconsistent in the degree of cristation. The photos below illustrate this.

The consistency of the plant habit of this introduction is all I hoped for. It has rebloomed every year, even in drought, and always has nice branching. Because of the inconsistent form of the bloom, however, I am introducing PETIT FOUR as a hybridizer’s plant, rather than one to have by your front porch. It is fertile both ways, pod being more difficult.

 


$95 / double fan

HELD FOR INCREASE (available fall 2024)

MAN ENOUGH TO WEAR PINK

Diviner's Handbook x All Things To All Men

6” bloom, 39” tall

3-4 way branching / 17 buds

Tetraploid

Bloom season: mid-late


Foliage: semi-evergreen


DIVINER’S HANDBOOK x

ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN

17T036


Man Enough To Wear Pink – Hunter 2024

This guy is a beautiful rose pink with a cream watermark that fades to light lavender.  The throat is green, transitioning to greenish-yellow before reaching the watermark. A triple edge of light lavender, cream, and greenish yellow matches the transition in the throat. Full form blooms are very consistent, perfect every time, with good substance.

This is a plant that a more experienced hybridizer stopped at when visiting my seedling patch. I hadn’t even noticed it previously, but he saw that it had potential. Three years later, I had to agree. I’ve crossed it with UFs and rebloomers, hoping to combine all of those characteristics on one awesome plant. The fact that the MAN is easily fertile both ways keeps me motivated!


$90 / double fan

HELD FOR INCREASE


JUST YOU WAIT

Fountain of Life x Scattered Through Time

5½” bloom, 35” tall

3-5 way branching / 15-24 buds

Tetraplploid

Bloom season: mid-late & late


Reblooms reliably


Foliage:
semi-evergreen

FOUNTAIN OF LIFE x

SCATTERED THROUGH TIME

17T096


Just You Wait – Hunter 2024

It’s worth the wait until the mid-late season for this full form watermelon pink bloom with darker veining. Petals have a narrow gold filigree edge and a faint grey-lavender band above the green to yellow throat. The bloom has good substance, showing little concern for rain or heat. Tall, sturdy, well branched scapes are produced on a vigorous clump.

In September, here in northern Illinois, most daylilies are done, but JUST YOU WAIT is busy getting started with its rebloom. It has produced instant rebloom every year, in spite of weather conditions, since it’s first showing as a one year old seedling. JUST YOU WAIT is fertile both ways, and a good candidate for hybridizing to get late season bloom, not to mention instant rebloom.

$95 / double fan

HEATHER’S SMILE

(seedling x Vanilla Stella) x Margo Reed Indeed

5” bloom, 32” tall

5-6 way branching / 19 buds

Diploid

Bloom season: early


Foliage: semi-evergreen



(Huben seedling x

VANILLA STELLA)
X MARGO REED INDEED

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Heather’s Smile – Hunter 2024
The bloom on HEATHER’S SMILE is ivory cream, maturing to near white by the evening. The green throated blossom has lightly ruffled tepals on well branched scapes which form a vigorous clump. Yet another introduction descended from seeds gifted to me by Mike Huben, HEATHER’S SMILE is sibling to THAT LUCKY START THEY TALK ABOUT. A mature clump is a beacon of light that shines during the early part of the bloom season.

HEATHER’S SMILE is a tribute to a dear family member who passed away too young after a courageous battle with cancer. Heather was a beacon of light to all who knew her. Her beautiful smile lives on in our hearts. She chose a white bloom for her memorial plant. Appropriately, there are often “angel’s wings” on the petals.

$90 / double fan


SET IT SPINNING

Set It Spinning daylily

7 1/2” bloom, 35” tall

4-5 way branching / 21 buds

Diploid

Bloom season: mid


Foliage: semi-evergreen


Unusual form – twisted crispate


MONOCAN TRAIL x

STACK THE DECK


14D MTxStD-7

Set It Spinning – Hunter 2023


In a clump, this plant looks like a bunch of pinwheels gaily spinning. Tree like branching on 35″ tall scapes allows the large flowers to spread & twist without interference. This was another seedling that demonstrated what a good parent STACK THE DECK is for passing on excellent branching. One of my other 2023 registrations, MALALA STRONG, has the same daddy (pollen parent) and same candelabra branching.

The plum self has a large chartreuse throat that extends out onto the pinched petals and curling sepals. Cream ribs & edges on both petals and sepals accentuate the motion of the bloom. Fertility has not been tested, but pollen looks good. Pod might be a little tricky because of the long pistil, but certainly worth the effort.


$50.00 dbl fan


MALALA STRONG

Malala Strong daylily

7” bloom, 43” tall

5 way branching / 20 buds

Diploid

Bloom season: mid


Foliage: dormant


NORTH WIND BILLET DOUX
x STACK THE DECK

17D58

Malala Strong – Hunter 2023

A tough daylily honoring a very tough young woman. As a seedling, divisions of Malala Strong visited two consecutive Region 2 summer meetings without missing a beat. This vigorous dormant diploid has 4-5 way branching on 43” tall scapes. All divisions have returned to northern Illinois and are anxious to settle into new ‘digs’.

The 7” bloom is a  rhubarb purple blend above a large washed cream and chartreuse eye that extends well out onto both petals and sepals. Fertility hasn’t been tested yet because she was so busy travelling.  😉 2023 UPDATE: Malala stayed home this summer and was a good mama AND daddy!



$50.00 triple fan

PRAIRIE’S EDGE LAUREN ELIZABETH

Prairie's Edge Lauren Elizabeth daylily

5 ½” bloom, 33” tall

3 way branching / 12 buds

Tetraploid

Bloom season: mid


Foliage: semi-evergreen


BELLE OF ASHWOOD x

SHOUT FROM THE MOUNTAINTOPS

17T034


Prairie’s Edge Lauren Elizabeth – Hunter 2023

Orchid pink self  with lighter halo above a green to yellow throat. Wide, overlapping petals have ruffled cream edges outlined with gold filagree. The bloom displays an interesting texture with slightly raised ribs and deep veins.

Very consistent, perfect every time, full form blooms with good substance. LAUREN ELIZABETH has provided some instant rebloom most years. She was one of the last tetraploids blooming in my garden in 2023. Fertility is untested but pollen looks good.


$55.00 dbl fan


PRAIRIE’S EDGE CONNOR SAMUEL

Prairie's Edge Connor Samuel daylily

3½” bloom, 30” tall

4-5 way branching / 22 buds

Diploid

Bloom season: early


Reblooms


Foliage: dormant


BABY BLUES x

(Huben seedling x ACE UP MY SLEEVE)

16D36


Prairie’s Edge Connor Samuel – Hunter 2023

This lovely buttermilk polychrome with a small green throat matures through the day to near white. 3½” blooms have gently ruffled petals & sepals.  The sturdy 30” tall scapes display 4-5 way branching. White daylilies often have somewhat unattractive foliage, but Connor’s is a beautiful blue-green.

A vigorous dormant diploid, Connor starts blooming early and then treats the gardener to northern instant rebloom. Fertility is untested but pollen looks good. This is another outstanding cultivar resulting from seeds given to me by fellow hybridizer Mike Huben.
2023 UPDATE: Connor showed himself to be easily fertile both ways.


$60.00 triple fan