Top 24 Munson Selections (174 voting members of E-mail Robin)
MALAYSIAN MONARCH
BETTY WARREN WOODS
COURT MAGICIAN
HIGHLAND LORD
KATE CARPENTER
CAMEROONS
RESPIGHI
RUSSIAN RHAPSODY
48
42
40
35
32
29
25
22
RUFFLED DUDE
SPANISH MASQUERADE
BENCHMARK
CAROLYN HENDRIX
CHERRY CHAPEAU
LEXINGTON AVENUE
MERRY WITCH
EMPEROR'S DRAGON
OLIVE BAILEY LANGDON
SEA GODDESS
SILVER ICE
NIVIA GUEST
RUFFLES ELEGANTE
CHINA LAKE
MOUNTAIN VIOLET
SARI
12
12
11
11
11
11
11
10
10
10
10
9
9
8
8
8
Comments on the top 8 (My apologies for losing the climate zone for each remark):
MALAYSIAN MONARCH
“truly possesses what I call "regal bearing." Rich in grape-purple tones, this one again has that large chalky
watermark that extends nearly half way out onto the petals. There is truly something majestic about this daylily that
I really like. And it grows like a weed here.”
“ a large flat flower which is somewhat triangular and makes a bold statement. The near white watermark jumps out
from a bright purple flower.”
“ an elegant grape/purple flower with a light creamy throat showing chartreuse deep inside.”
“ is a great purple.”
“ Great large flowering purple, beautiful eyezone”
“ although, must say it melts badly on even 80 deg. days”
“gorgeous blue purple and vigorous!”
“ a beautiful purple”
“ -another purple, heavy rebloomer here, just love it.”
“ the Munson mark.”
“ A true king among daylilies, and the trademark chalk-eye”
“ a great showy daylily with its bold wide eye on a beautiful hue of purple”
“one can get lost in the patterns of this cultivar.”
“ probably the most impressive clump in the garden this year”
“ Is perfect here in Virginia, with incredible vigor and reliable, sun resistant purple blooms. Non daylily people buy
this plant on sight at triple the price of other plants.”
BETTY WARREN WOODS –
“this is a landmark yellow that nearly everyone has hybridized with. It has beautiful round form and performs well
for me unprotected up here in the north.”
“This one is at the top of my list. Beautiful lemon-yellow color, heavy, waxy, form substance, tight ruffling, and an
excellent breeder make it not only an excellent garden clump, but also a hybridizer's dream.”
“ was a tad recalcitrant about getting established in my garden. But after pouting for a while, it really flourished. A
beautiful lemon cream yellow with a strong ruffled gold edge, excellent form and branching, and a consistently good
opener, BETTY WARREN WOODS is definitely a winner.”
“ This lovely cultivar grows well for me, and I do think had Bill placed it on the Awards and Honors list the first or
second year of its eligibility, it would have probably won for him that Stout Medal, which he has never received.
The last time I visited with Bill and Betty, I reminded him that it then was five years overdue and he agreed to
nominate the cultivar for the next year's HM candidacy. Though older than some other cultivars against which it
will be competing in the future, I think this lemon and cream delicacy is still worthy of high honors.”
“ is such a quality daylily--even a new-to-daylily person who visited my garden this summer saw it and recognized
its superior flower, and wants it.”
“ can't be surpassed in our garden for number of blooms”
“ I love this yellow daylily. It is one my favorites in all of the garden.”
“a classic for all times”
“produces good offspring”
“ doesn’t like our freeze thaw springs, but always puts on a show”
“ has beautiful form”
“ one of the best yellows and does wonderfully in the Southeastern Gulf Coast.”
“ who doesn't like this one.”
“ a superb ruffled yellow that is on the tender side for us but still gives us some beautiful blooms.”
“ Just plain great!”
“ Yellow is my second least favorite color (after gold), but this particular flower is just about perfection. While we
don't begin to get the superb branching and bud count which I have observed on this flower while growing at
Wimberlyway, we still get a great display from this beauty as long as it is not being disturbed. It tends to have a
short sulk after we disturb it, but it has always managed to recuperate nicely.”
COURT MAGICIAN“This one also did very well in Lexington, Kentucky. Like the one above, it provides the added pleasure of rebloom
here.”
“ This one I once voted for the Stout Medal, on its first year of eligibility. Though I have dug and divided my
clump several times, it still holds a show spot in my garden. I like its deep lavender-purple color and its chalky
watermark, and it is a strong grower. It has a form which among the tetraploids of the late Eighties showed a
continuing refinement.”
“ not for itself, but for it's use as a parent. CM is in the background of so many of my favorite hybridizing plants. “
“ Still another watermarked Munson purple. It carries a white edge that it passes on making it a parent of some of
the finest modern purples on the market today.”
“ would probably have to rank at or near the top. It does extremely well in our garden and is beautiful besides.”
“ Love the color combination of purple, chalky watermark and yellow throat. Grow this next to a yellow daylily.
Reblooms. “
“ also new this year but it bloomed - very nice and impressive.”
“ For all of the reasons others have given.”
“ Survives Nebraska winters well.”
“a great purple with a wonderful eye, very special, just love it.”
“ My favorite clear lavender still. Another great breeder as well.”
“ love the light edging around the eye and petals.”
“ love that lavender eye; registered as an ev. but performs like a dormant for us.”
“Simply has not been explored enough in hybridizing”
“was Bonnie's favorite daylily for many years “
“ reliable purple, visitors love it.”
“ an excellent purple with a chalky eye zone. It is sunfast, clear and bright. Easily fertile, it has good bud count.
The plant is healthy and the foliage stays green throughout the season. It is both hardy and vigorous.”
HIGHLAND LORD“ Munson 83, 22 Mla, 5 sev. Mahogany red tet is what the description says, but that does not even begin to say what
a beautiful daylily this is Saw it at Region 2 Madison, WI, and "had to have it" and am glad it lives here. It was one
of the "bus daylilies," but I was not fortunate enough to receive it; so, I traded with Bill and Gail Johannes of the
Metropolitan Columbus DS for it.”
“ A beautiful red double with a gold wire-like edge. As someone else on the Robin said...a double before its time.”
“ is one of the finest doubles in my gardens (and I dearly love doubles). I cannot praise this daylily highly enough.
In my view, it is the standard for red doubles. The phrase "before its time" may be over-used and trite, but it
certainly applies to HIGHLAND LORD. A strong increaser, vigorous, well-branched, and floriferous, HIGHLAND
LORD is a deep velvety red with a pale yellow edge on the crimped inner petaloids. It doesn't bloom 100% double
for me, but that's OK. Even when it produces the occasional single bloom, it's still gorgeous.”
“ Red Double, just wonderful here. Has clarity. Blooms better with more care and fertilizer (alfalfa pellets). Just
love it.”
“ 1983 tetraploid double late bloomer”
“ a lovely red double that has done quite well here.”
“ Elegant red double with a great form. “
“ wonderful red double with gold edge”
“ probably in the top five any day you ask me”
“ what can I add to what has been said already.”
“ A gold edged red double tet. Way ahead of it's time.”
“great when gold edge shows up”
“ loads of perfect blooms, consistently double here”
“ Just traded for it but have seen it in many gardens and had it on my must have list.”
KATE CARPENTER –
“one I wanted for years and the popularity poll winner in Region 7 about 5 years ago. By the time the price came
down I wanted BETTY WARREN WOODS more (:->).”
“ grows under two ornamental cherry trees and fights for light, water and nutrients and does just fine.”
“ This color and form of this one, and the consistency of performance make it a perfect garden plant. It's only flaw is
that it is top branched and the blooms tend to crowd at times. It's offspring are many and have often gotten away
from the top-branching.”
“ a creamy pink blend. An all around beautiful flower. “
“ A fine performer in Region 9”
“ A gorgeous pink that just blooms and blooms”
“ (just a hair away from being a Stour Medal winner)”
“ lovely pale cream pink”
“always big blooms and so pretty.”
CAMEROONS
“ a beautiful, clear claret”
“ because it so distinctive, and beautiful.”
“ has been a favorite five since I first got it”
“ I've only seen it in pictures and added it to my garden this year “
“ Love that unusual color and the twisted sepals remind me of a pinwheel. Reblooms.”
“ fun form and bold colors”
“wine red twisty thing”
“ wine red with a chalky wine eye and a lime green throat”
“ because of the wonderful exotic form it has itself and then passes along to it's offspring”
“ a strong wine purple with a distinctive chalky-pink watermark. The narrow, twisting petals/sepals are intriguing,
giving it an exotic appearance. In my gardens I like to group several Munson cultivars together. I find that the
intricate eye and throat patterns, as well as the clear base colors, complement each other well. I have
CAMEROONS planted with ELIZABETH ANN HUDSON, HIGHLAND CRANBERRY, and PANACHE. This is
a wonderful Munson quartet that provides great visual impact.”
“super -hybridize with it. Have a seedling that may be registered someday, Red self, reblooming, just love it.”
“ one of my top ten daylilies (of 550). It doesn't fade and never turns brown or gray like some purples. Or melt. It is
superb! “
“Wine/purple with chalky eyezone. Love the way it opens differently each day. Throws unusual forms also. “
“ I love the twisty sepals on this watermarked purplish red one. It is fertile both ways and produced a fair amount
of seed for me this year, mostly in conjunction with narrow tets.”
“ a wonderful deep maroon that stands tall and regal and with lovely deep color even in the heat of the afternoon
sun”
“ It gets my vote from the incredible children it breeds. I have seen 3 intros out of it from various breeders, and all
were different and unusual. It is an interesting hard to describe color between red and violet. It is fertile both ways.
It's offspring CAMEROON NIGHTS is such a great plant and a near spider.Many of Cameroon's children are UF's,
and near spiders.”
RESPIGHI
“Wine/black with chalky wine eyezone. Blooms and increases here in part shade! Lovely color in the afternoon.”
“ An early 20th century classical composer. Oops, we are talking daylilies. As most of you know, Bill Munson was
famous for his purples. This dark purple may have been my favorite purple this year. Although he may have been
surpassed in recent years with some of the Hanson and Moldovan purples, if you were to set the clock back to say
1990, Bill Munson would have ruled tet purples.”
“ a wonderful wine/purple color, heavy bloomer, just love it.”
“ another beautiful purple”
“ Deep black-purple with purple eye.”
“ Love the purple - it gets great admiration during garden tours.”
“another beautiful purple”
“ The watermark makes this one distinctive.”
RUSSIAN RHAPSODY
“ new to my garden this year but bloomed exactly as the picture showed it would, an incredible color with a great
eye.”
“ under 2 ornamental cherry trees also and fights for light, water and nutrients plus people traipsing along the brick
path and refuses to quit.”
“ The one that got me first interested in Daylilies. I was a great grower for me in Lexington, Kentucky. I brought a
division off that plant down here with me, where it also performs great and even reblooms.”
“ one that everyone knows and needs no introduction.”
“ Doesn't everyone know this plum purple with deep purple eye?”
“ always liked this one.”
“ loads of scapes, looks fantastic in a clump.”
Cultivars Voted for: 218
AFRICAN GRAPE
7
AISHA
2
APOLLODORUS
7
ARMANI
1
ASIAN SKY
1
BARONET'S BADGE
2
BEIJING
4
BELGIAN CHATEAU 1
BELOVED BALLERINA 2
BENCHMARK
11
BENEDICT
2
BETTY WARREN WOODS-42
BLUSHING LEMON
1
BORGIA QUEEN
6
BOTTICELLI
1
BRAZILLIAN ORANGE 1
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
3
BUENOS AIRES
2
BURMESE SUNLIGHT 1
BYZANTINE EMPEROR 3
BYZANTINE MASK
1
CALAIS
2
CAMEROONS
29
CANTON HARBOR
1
CAPELLA LIGHT
1
CARAMEL GLAZE
2
CAROLYN HENDRIX 11
CARTIER'S GEM
1
CAVATINA
1
CHABLIS BLANC
1
CHALEUR
1
CHAMPAYNE ROYALE 1
CHATEAU BLANC
1
CHATEAU DE FLEUR 2
CHERRY CHAPEAU 11
CHEYENNE SKIES
2
CHINA LAKE
8
CHINA VEIL
1
CHINESE AUTUMN
1
CHINESE CLOISONNE 4
CHINESE PAVILLION 2
CHINESE TEMPLE FLOWER-6
CHINESE WATERCOLOR 3
CLEMENCEAUX
1
COLLECTOR'S CHOICE 1
COMMISSAR
3
COMTESSINA
1
COPPER DAWN
3
CORELLI
2
CORFU
2
COURT MAGICIAN
40
COZUMEL
1
DAWN CRANE
1
DEAUVILLE SUN
1
DESERT JEWEL
1
DESERT TAN
1
DEVONSHIRE
1
DIAMOND SHADOWS 1
DIVINE MADNESS
5
DUNEDIN
7
EARL ROBERTS
1
EASTER MOON
1
EGYPTIAN IBIS
4
ELIZABETH ANN HUDSON
ELMO JACKSON
1
EMBASSY
1
EMERALD DAWN
1
EMPEROR BUTTERFLY 6
EMPEROR'S DRAGON 10
ENCHANTED EMPRESS4
ETOSHA
4
EVELYN LELA STOUT 7
FANCY ILLUSION
1
FENCING MASTER
5
FIERY CHARIOT
1
FLOWER SHOP
2
FRED HAM
6
FRENCH FROSTING
1
FRENCH PORCELAIN 1
GARDEN GODDESS
1
GAUGUIN
5
GEM
1
GRAND OPERA
1
GRAND OPERA
4
GRAND PALAIS
2
GRAND RENAISSANCE 1
GUS BLANKENSHIP
1
HAWAIIAN EMPRESS 1
HIGH LAMA
1
HIGHLAND LORD
35
HOT JAZZ
1
HYDE PARK
1
IDA WIMBERLY MUNSON
IMPERIAL EMPRESS 1
INCA PRINCE
1
JAMAICA GINGER
1
JAMAICA ROSE
1
JAPANESE BROCADE 3
KABUKI BALLET
4
KATE CARPENTER
32
KECIA
7
KENSINGTON MANOR 1
KINGS CLOAK
4
KING'S COTILLION
1
LA FENICE
1
LANGDON
1
1
1
LAURIANA
1
LEMON JADE
2
LENOX
3
LEXINGTON AVENUE 11
LILAC SNOW
2
LIMOGES PORCELAIN 1
MAGIC MANDARIN
1
MAISON CARRE
2
MALAYSIAN MAGISTRATE
MALAYSIAN MONARCH
MALMAISON PLUM
2
MANCHURIAN APRICOT
MANHATTAN NIGHT 1
MARY ANN SMITH
1
MASK BALL
1
MATISSE
6
MAYAN POPPY
3
MEDORAN GOLD
1
MERLE KENT
1
MERRY WITCH
MOON SNOW
1
MORTICIA
6
MOST NOBLE
1
MOUNTAIN VIOLET 8
MYKONOS
6
NAIROBI NIGHT
5
NIGERIAN NIGHT
3
NIJINSKY
1
NILE CRANE
4
NILE PLUM
6
NIVIA GUEST
9
NOTORIOUS
1
OLIVE BAILEY LANGDON-10
ORANGE DIVA
1
ORIENTAL SILK
1
PALACE GUARD
4
PALACE LANTERN
1
PALACE PAGODA
3
PAPER DRAGON
2
PARIS OVERTURE
1
PARIS SIDEWALK
1
PASHA’S PASSPOR
2
PERSIAN MARKET
7
PERSIAN PLUM
2
PHARAOHS TREASURE
PRIME MINISTER
6
PRINCESS MOONBEAM
PURPLE TWILIGHT TIME
QUEEN'S CAPE
1
RAINBOW GOLD STAR 1
RARE GIFT
1
REINE DE VIOLETTES 2
RESPIGHI
25
RICHARD TAYLOR
1
RILEY BARON
2
ROCAMADOUR
1
1
48
1
11
1
1
4
ROYAL EXCHEQUER 2
ROYAL HEIRESS
4
ROYAL HERITAGE
1
ROYAL SARACEN
4
ROYAL TRUMPETER 1
RUE DE LAPE
1
RUFFLED DUDE
12
RUFFLED LEMON LACE
5
RUFFLES ELEGANTE 9
RUSSIAN RHAPSODY 22
RUWENZORI
1
SALZBURG
1
SARI
8
SCARAMOUCHE
6
SCARLET CHALICE
2
SEA GODDESS
10
SEA URCHIN
5
SELMA TIMMONS
1
SEMIRAMIDE
3
SERENGETI
4
SHIBUI SPLENDOR
5
SHINTO ETCHING
3
SHISHEDO
7
SILVER ICE
10
SILVER SPRITE
1
SILVER VEIL
1
SINGAPORE ORCHID 2
SNOW SHADOWS
2
SOVEREIGN QUEEN
6
SPANISH MASQUERADE
12
SPICED ORANGE
1
SPODE
2
SPRING WILLOW SONG
4
STRAWBERRY CUPCAKE
4
SULTANS RUBY
4
SUN KING
1
TAMIL
1
TEMPLE GODDESS
3
THAILAND GOLD
1
THAIS
3
TIFFANY GOLD
4
TIME LORD
6
TROPICAL SNOW
1
TUSCAWILLA
1
TWILIGHT MADONNA 1
TWILIGHT SWAN
2
VENETIAN MAGISTRATE
1
VICTORIA ELIZABETH BARNES
VICTORIAN DAYS
4
VINTAGE WINE
1
VIVACIOUS
1
WAR MARCH
3
WARRIOR PRINCE
1
WATERBIRD
3
WRAPPED IN GOLD
2
YASMIN
7
3
Complete Comments from the Robin, alphabetical order:
AFRICAN GRAPE“this one should be in everyone's garden. Went from one to 6 corn stalk like fans in 2 years.”
“ a gorgeous purple which multiplies well up here. My favorite purples.”
“ It has great branching and substance and holds it color well.”
AISHA- 6" peach rose
APOLLODORUS –
“fairly sunfast purple. A midlate that reliably reblooms here in Nebraska”.
“ love the late bloom”
ARMANI (love this color! have babies with POLYNESIAN LOVE SONG:-)
BEIJING –
“ Just fabulous color and grower. It is wonderful in a clump.”
“soft apricot pink”
BENCHMARK
“Several contributors to our robin have noted Bill's many contributions among the lavenders and/or purples. This
strong-growing beauty makes a great garden flower, always attracting comments from visitors. I still have a huge
clump of this in my garden, and though it is more triangular than the form I have often preferred among daylilies in
general, I think it is an elegant blossom in a color we hybridizers have offered too little of.”
“ Is also an older one, but has that trademark eye pattern and grows well under a large holly tree, where mostly only
hostas thrive.”
BENEDICT:
“most incredible cherry rose red with a lighter watermark took my breath away first time I saw it bloom the color
was so different. “
BETTY WARREN WOODS –
“this is a landmark yellow that nearly everyone has hybridized with. It has beautiful round form and performs well
for me unprotected up here in the north.”
“This one is at the top of my list. Beautiful lemon-yellow color, heavy, waxy, form substance, tight ruffling, and an
excellent breeder make it not only an excellent garden clump, but also a hybridizer's dream.”
“ was a tad recalcitrant about getting established in my garden. But after pouting for a while, it really flourished. A
beautiful lemon cream yellow with a strong ruffled gold edge, excellent form and branching, and a consistently good
opener, BETTY WARREN WOODS is definitely a winner.”
“ This lovely cultivar grows well for me, and I do think had Bill placed it on the Awards and Honors list the first or
second year of its eligibility, it would have probably won for him that Stout Medal, which he has never received.
The last time I visited with Bill and Betty, I reminded him that it then was five years overdue and he agreed to
nominate the cultivar for the next year's HM candidacy. Though older than some other cultivars against which it
will be competing in the future, I think this lemon and cream delicacy is still worthy of high honors.”
“ is such a quality daylily--even a new-to-daylily person who visited my garden this summer saw it and recognized
its superior flower, and wants it.”
“ can't be surpassed in our garden for number of blooms”
“ I love this yellow daylily. It is one my favorites in all of the garden.”
“a classic for all times”
“produces good offspring”
“ doesn’t like our freeze thaw springs, but always puts on a show”
“ has beautiful form”
“ one of the best yellows and does wonderfully in the Southeastern Gulf Coast.”
“ who doesn't like this one.”
“ a superb ruffled yellow that is on the tender side for us but still gives us some beautiful blooms.”
“ Just plain great!”
“ Yellow is my second least favorite color (after gold), but this particular flower is just about perfection. While we
don't begin to get the superb branching and bud count which I have observed on this flower while growing at
Wimberlyway, we still get a great display from this beauty as long as it is not being disturbed. It tends to have a
short sulk after we disturb it, but it has always managed to recuperate nicely.”
BLUSHING LEMON –
“ I first saw this one at Mal and Gerda Brooker's in Cleveland Ohio. Has performed well the last 2 years since I got
it, sending up 3 sets of scapes this year off of 4 fans. Large, lovely yellow blushed with pink.”
BORGIA QUEEN
“ This is an unusual eyed lavender bloom. Its a medium-large flower on a relatively small plant. It is very distinctive
in form and color. Hard to describe as well as photograph.”
“ A new addition last fall that is lavender-mauve with a slate blue violet eye.”
“ is not that vigorous is our garden but one I always look forward to seeing bloom”
“ what wonderful color,”
BOTTICELLI –
“though it may have been superseded in branching and form, the color is superb and it is very well named!”
BUENOS AIRES a pretty bright rose-pink
BYZANTINE EMPEROR
“I encouraged Bill to introduce this one back in the Seventies, although he was at first a bit hesitant, I think. To me,
its form was beautiful and its rich burgundy and purple blend sumptuous. It was a strong grower for me in central
Alabama, surviving two O and +2 degree winters without snow cover and several summers of near 100 degree heat.
It always opened well, even on cool mornings, garnering the Vice-President's Cup in a clump of fourteen blossoms
at our 1984 Region meeting in Montgomery, after experiencing four or five days of "blackberry winter" the last
week of May. I haven't noticed anyone else mentioning this variety among their remembrances.”
“ The earliest blooming deep purple -tons of scapes and bouquets of flowers”
CALAIS
“ has unusual color and great performance”
“Is very unique, also superb scapes, branching and budcount, lots of hybridizing potential here.”
CAMEROONS
“ a beautiful, clear claret”
“ because it so distinctive, and beautiful.”
“ has been a favorite five since I first got it”
“ I've only seen it in pictures and added it to my garden this year “
“ Love that unusual color and the twisted sepals remind me of a pinwheel. Reblooms.”
“ fun form and bold colors”
“wine red twisty thing”
“ wine red with a chalky wine eye and a lime green throat”
“ because of the wonderful exotic form it has itself and then passes along to it's offspring”
“ a strong wine purple with a distinctive chalky-pink watermark. The narrow, twisting petals/sepals are intriguing,
giving it an exotic appearance. In my gardens I like to group several Munson cultivars together. I find that the
intricate eye and throat patterns, as well as the clear base colors, complement each other well. I have
CAMEROONS planted with ELIZABETH ANN HUDSON, HIGHLAND CRANBERRY, and PANACHE. This is
a wonderful Munson quartet that provides great visual impact.”
“super -hybridize with it. Have a seedling that may be registered someday, Red self, reblooming, just love it.”
“ one of my top ten daylilies (of 550). It doesn't fade and never turns brown or gray like some purples. Or melt. It is
superb! “
“Wine/purple with chalky eyezone. Love the way it opens differently each day. Throws unusual forms also. “
“ I love the twisty sepals on this watermarked purplish red one. It is fertile both ways and produced a fair amount
of seed for me this year, mostly in conjunction with narrow tets.”
“ a wonderful deep maroon that stands tall and regal and with lovely deep color even in the heat of the afternoon
sun”
“ It gets my vote from the incredible children it breeds. I have seen 3 intros out of it from various breeders, and all
were different and unusual. It is an interesting hard to describe color between red and violet. It is fertile both ways.
It's offspring CAMEROON NIGHTS is such a great plant and a near spider.Many of Cameroon's children are UF's,
and near spiders.”
CAPELLA LIGHT –“grows in a shady windy nasty area and out of 400 is the one my husband noticed!”
CAROLYN HENDRIX –
“A great red, but difficult to get pods set.”
“my favorite kind of red”
CAVATINA –“the first daylily I ever listed during my first visit to Wimberlyway - unusual red color “
CHERRY CHAPEAU
“a bright red rose bi-colored, crossed properly is producing some cutting edge Seedlings.”
“ A light and dark rose bitone. Beautiful, and a vigorous grower here in northern Va.”
“ pink is pink is pink.”
CHINA LAKE
“is another very strong growing and elegant daylily that I feel deserves more widespread acclaim than it seems to
have received thus far. The broad blooms are a very pristine shade of lavender orchid that is unlike any other daylily
that I grow “
“another super flower, hybridized with it, seedlings will bloom this Spring. Mother?? of IDA'S MAGIC. Just love
it.”
“ this was one of the first Munson cultivars I purchased. It has been very hardy for me at my garden in the city
where it is a bit protected. I have not tried to grow it at the farm so I do not know if it could stand the conditions out
there, but in the city it is a vigorous grower and increases exceptionally well. The flower form is not up to some of
the newer things on the market but the clear lavender colour is one of the best on the market. The very large sun fast
flowers always open up well. CL puts a real show on in the garden. Many of the more modern lavenders that I've
seen do not have the wonderful clarity colour of CHINA LAKE.”
CHINA VEIL - Pink, stippled in rose violet. Unusual and beautiful.
CHINESE AUTUMN:
“ neat orange-y coral with lovely shape, think it's sterile though and that drives me nuts, I love the plant habits so
much”
CHINESE CLOISONNE
“I love the pattern of this flower.”
“ has a lovely eye pattern”
“ love the subtle etching”
CHINESE PAVILION –
“A big coral flower with a pale yellow eye zone that can't be mistaken for another. “
CHINESE TEMPLE FLOWER
“It is a gorgeous lilac blend with a purple eye. I think it is still unusual.”
CHINESE WATERCOLOR “ nice eye and mix of colors”
“The watermark and pattern are great!
“6" mauve, chalky mauve-pewter eye”
COLLECTOR'S CHOICE and CHATEAU DE FLEUR
“Two other gorgeous flowers which we have not owned for as many years but which always stop me as I pass by.
These were both obtained the year I realized that lavender/purple was vastly underrepresented in our garden because
so many of the flowers
seemed to me not to have clear colors. So I went on a search for what seemed to me to be the best of what was
available, and these two were amongst those selected. Actually, we ended up with a number of Munson's that year.”
COMMISSAR
“Munson 1980, 26 Mla, dormant tet. Red self does not describe this incredibly beautiful blood red daylily well
enough, either. I saw it during the Region 2, Grand Rapids, MI, garden tours in Allison Tgiros's garden and knew
that this was another "must have" daylily for my "RED AND RECKAMPS" city lot. It multiplies readily, and it
branches well. Sun fast in open south-of-house location in central Ohio. It did well during 1999 summer drought
here in central Ohio!”
“ this the daylily i think of when someone asks for a real red.”
CORFU - So elegantly understated and such a clear and refined colour
COURT MAGICIAN“This one also did very well in Lexington, Kentucky. Like the one above, it provides the added pleasure of rebloom
here.”
“ This one I once voted for the Stout Medal, on its first year of eligibility. Though I have dug and divided my
clump several times, it still holds a show spot in my garden. I like its deep lavender-purple color and its chalky
watermark, and it is a strong grower. It has a form which among the tetraploids of the late Eighties showed a
continuing refinement.”
“ not for itself, but for it's use as a parent. CM is in the background of so many of my favorite hybridizing plants. “
“ Still another watermarked Munson purple. It carries a white edge that it passes on making it a parent of some of
the finest modern purples on the market today.”
“ would probably have to rank at or near the top. It does extremely well in our garden and is beautiful besides.”
“ Love the color combination of purple, chalky watermark and yellow throat. Grow this next to a yellow daylily.
Reblooms. “
“ also new this year but it bloomed - very nice and impressive.”
“ For all of the reasons others have given.”
“ Survives Nebraska winters well.”
“a great purple with a wonderful eye, very special, just love it.”
“ My favorite clear lavender still. Another great breeder as well.”
“ love the light edging around the eye and petals.”
“ love that lavender eye; registered as an ev. but performs like a dormant for us.”
“Simply has not been explored enough in hybridizing”
“was Bonnie's favorite daylily for many years “
“ reliable purple, visitors love it.”
“ an excellent purple with a chalky eye zone. It is sunfast, clear and bright. Easily fertile, it has good bud count.
The plant is healthy and the foliage stays green throughout the season. It is both hardy and vigorous.”
DESERT JEWEL
“a superb jewel, bud count is near unbelievable, is producing very interesting, heavy edged seedlings.”
DESERT TAN- “tan, deeply glowing gold throat. Unlike any other daylily.”
DIAMOND SHADOWS –“Lavender/slate self with a gorgeous chartruse heart. Absolute diamond shape”
DIVINE MADNESS –
“a medium sized hot reddish orange flower with lots of ruffling on the petals. Excellent performer here. Totally
hardy both at my residence in the city and at the farm. I love these what I call, hot coloured daylilies”.
“ wonderful orange!”
“red orange copper, 20 x 5, another robust performer with good BC.”
DUNEDUN –
“a wonderful very large light cream yellow flower on a good healthy and hardy plant in my gardens in Oakville.
Puts a show on in the garden. It performs much better than one of its parents KATE CARPENTER in my garden.”
“ again, another creamy yellow that creates visitors to gasp at the abundance of perfect blooms on such a vigorous
healthy plant”
“ just plain beautiful and good a performer”
“ a very beautiful early pink that I classify as the poor man's answer to non-hardy SILOAM RALPH HENRY.”
EARL ROBERTS. “Hot colored”
EGYPTIAN IBIS – “a lovely pink/lilac that blooms for a really long time and increases well”
ELIZABETH ANNE HUDSON
“ Peachy pink with a purple eye and edge, hard to believe this is an older daylily”
ELMO JACKSON “ a pastel blend that is so well-budded that I refer to its scapes as "stacked!’”
EMPEROR BUTTERFLY –
“1986 a rebloomer”
“ gorgeous color with typical Munson watermark and eye”
“ maybe I'm just partial to butterflys”
EMPEROR'S DRAGON
“perhaps best typifies the bold eyes that are so prevalent in some Munson cultivars. I particularly like the dramatic
wine purple eye that contrasts nicely with the lavender base color. In our Zone 5 climate it has mushroomed into a
large and robust-looking clump that blooms very heavily each season.”
“ has a pale mauve base color accentuated by a strong, large plum-colored eye. The flower form and eye pattern are
unique and difficult for me to describe. Instantly recognizable, its companions in my garden are NIVIA GUEST and
Mrs. Ida Munson's ASIAN ARTISTRY.”
“ Gorgeous mauve with a big plum eyezone”
“ love lavender color and form”
“-great color combo”
ENCHANTED EMPRESS
“because as a light pink, we have used it quite a bit in our hybridizing program. When I went down our list of
Munson cultivars it occurred me how much we have used this plant as a parent. So, we must have been struck by its
qualities otherwise we wouldn't have used it.”
ETOSHA
“has been a splendid garden plant here and one, I think, is very overlooked, as I don't see many people mentioning
it. It's a very vigorous deep green plant here with sturdy scapes blooming midseason, but continuing to bloom and
rebloom. In fact, it was the last thing blooming for me this year. A gorgeous yellow, orange, pink blend and
everyone notices it! It's inexpensive and I highly recommend it.”
EVELYN LELA STOUT
“Since I was forced to cut some of my precious scapes in order to become an exhibition judge, I went around with a
very selective eye. Nothing was sacrificed unless it would definitely get at least a blue ribbon. EVELYN LELA
STOUT, with its good branching and bud count and every flower a perfect example, won best large flower in the
show. It will have a place in my garden for years to come because it is such a dependable performer.”
FANCY ILLUSION “it earned a spot by bloming now!”
FENCING MASTER
“wonderful variations of red and maroon color - terrific flower, so huge, with great substance”
“ wine red color does not run off in the heat.”
“burgundy purple, 20 x 5, rapid growth, high BC”
FIERY CHARIOT “a hot orange-red “
FLOWER SHOP “very soft shell pink with oodles of blooms”
GARDEN GODDESS –
“I was so happy to see someone else finally mention this one - it is positively luminescent”
GAUGUIN –
“1969 a real performer and popular, reblooms”
“ Different color - Really shows up in the garden.”
“ Unusual glowing coral blend, all my garden newbies buy it”
GEM
“is one of my most favorite of his lavender daylilies. What I particularly like about this daylily is its trademark
Munson cream yellow throat and a very finely etched narrow violet eye. It is a vigorous plant of the first order and
perhaps one of the most overlooked of all Bill's introductions.”
GRAND OPERA
“ I never grew this cultivar, but since I photographed it for the 1987 calendar, how can I ever forget its significance
for me personally. Everywhere I have seen it grown, it seemed strong and floriferous--a nice orange-red with a
lemon-green throat that held splendidly in the sun all day. It was a good opener, which many early tets were not.
(By the way, the mentioned photograph was taken in the garden of that gentle soul, Grace Abercrombie, for whom
Bill also named a daylily.)”
GRAND PALAIS - “The large pale yellow eye zone against the dark purple looks striking.”
GRAND RENAISSANCE “love rose colored self's and this is a good one.”
GUS BLANKENSHIP
“is, to me, his best red. The colour is sunfast, clear and bright and the plant puts on a good show. It has excellent
substance. It is both hardy and vigorous. I would like it to flower over a longer period than putting on its show all at
once. I would like a stronger green throat but the flower opens very well. It has only average pod fertility.”
HIGHLAND LORD“ Munson 83, 22 Mla, 5 sev. Mahogany red tet is what the description says, but that does not even begin to say what
a beautiful daylily this is Saw it at Region 2 Madison, WI, and "had to have it" and am glad it lives here. It was one
of the "bus daylilies," but I was not fortunate enough to receive it; so, I traded with Bill and Gail Johannes of the
Metropolitan Columbus DS for it.”
“ A beautiful red double with a gold wire-like edge. As someone else on the Robin said...a double before its time.”
“ is one of the finest doubles in my gardens (and I dearly love doubles). I cannot praise this daylily highly enough.
In my view, it is the standard for red doubles. The phrase "before its time" may be over-used and trite, but it
certainly applies to HIGHLAND LORD. A strong increaser, vigorous, well-branched, and floriferous, HIGHLAND
LORD is a deep velvety red with a pale yellow edge on the crimped inner petaloids. It doesn't bloom 100% double
for me, but that's OK. Even when it produces the occasional single bloom, it's still gorgeous.”
“ Red Double, just wonderful here. Has clarity. Blooms better with more care and fertilizer (alfalfa pellets). Just
love it.”
“ 1983 tetraploid double late bloomer”
“ a lovely red double that has done quite well here.”
“ Elegant red double with a great form. “
“ wonderful red double with gold edge”
“ probably in the top five any day you ask me”
“ what can I add to what has been said already.”
“ A gold edged red double tet. Way ahead of it's time.”
“great when gold edge shows up”
“ loads of perfect blooms, consistently double here”
“ Just traded for it but have seen it in many gardens and had it on my must have list.”
HOT JAZZ,
“the most intense, hottest daylily color I've ever seen (brilliant red-orange). On a grey day like this one, brings a
warm feeling just thinking about it. <g>”
HYDE PARK “claret burgundy with chalky eyezone, 18 x 5.”
IDA WIMBERLY MUNSON
“delicate lilac-pink with cream throat. Blooms for a long time and reblooms faithfully, providing a bouquest of
palest lilac-pink for most of the summer in zone 7. Good branching.”
IMPERIAL EMPRESS
“ a wonderful clear rose pink with a large lighter pink watermark. Wonderful fairly sun fast colours. The foliage is
very mushy in the spring but it recovers fast and has performed very well. A good strong growing plant with a good
scape. Though not a daylily that I would think would do well when exposed to harsher weather.”
JAMAICA GINGER “orange cream blend, 30 x 6, slow to get established but fabulous “
KABUKI BALLET
“My favourite of Mr Munson's plants, What a great great daylily this one is. It is a perfect garden plant. KB is a
purple with a pink chalky centre with great substance, excellent bud count and candelabra branching. The flower is
not huge but has great presence and is easily fertile. It is both hardy and vigorous. The plant is healthy and the
foliage stays green."
KATE CARPENTER –
“one I wanted for years and the popularity poll winner in Region 7 about 5 years ago. By the time the price came
down I wanted BETTY WARREN WOODS more (:->).”
“ grows under two ornamental cherry trees and fights for light, water and nutrients and does just fine.”
“ This color and form of this one, and the consistency of performance make it a perfect garden plant. It's only flaw is
that it is top branched and the blooms tend to crowd at times. It's offspring are many and have often gotten away
from the top-branching.”
“ a creamy pink blend. An all around beautiful flower. “
“ A fine performer in Region 9”
“ A gorgeous pink that just blooms and blooms”
“ (just a hair away from being a Stour Medal winner)”
“ lovely pale cream pink”
“always big blooms and so pretty.”
KECIA –“a light yellow with lots of blooms and branching - has won the Queen of Show for us and usually gets a
purple ribbon.”
“Although an oldie now, it's performance is not. It is yellow on yellow and reblooms every year in zone 6/7.”
KING'S COTILLION
“'97 just another purple....YAH, SURE......This one knocks me out every time I see it”
LAURIANA – “This is a wonderful pink and one of my very favorite flowers”
LENOX “A fine ivory cream white that others are still measured against.”
LEXINGTON AVENUE
“the richness of this purple, in photos we saw, made it a must and we have not been disappointed.”
“ great bloomer, great eye and watermark”
“ Just got it this Spring but it did nicely for me.”
LIMOGES PORCELAIN – “s still blooming as of 10/7/99 and still has 11 buds to go.”
MAGIC MANDARIN – “Beautiful creamy orange with a huge yellow watermark”
MALAYSIAN MONARCH
“truly possesses what I call "regal bearing." Rich in grape-purple tones, this one again has that large chalky
watermark that extends nearly half way out onto the petals. There is truly something majestic about this daylily that
I really like. And it grows like a weed here.”
“ a large flat flower which is somewhat triangular and makes a bold statement. The near white watermark jumps out
from a bright purple flower.”
“ an elegant grape/purple flower with a light creamy throat showing chartreuse deep inside.”
“ is a great purple.”
“ Great large flowering purple, beautiful eyezone”
“ although, must say it melts badly on even 80 deg. days”
“gorgeous blue purple and vigorous!”
“ a beautiful purple”
“ -another purple, heavy rebloomer here, just love it.”
“ the Munson mark.”
“ A true king among daylilies, and the trademark chalk-eye”
“ a great showy daylily with its bold wide eye on a beautiful hue of purple”
“one can get lost in the patterns of this cultivar.”
“ probably the most impressive clump in the garden this year”
“ Is perfect here in Virginia, with incredible vigor and reliable, sun resistant purple blooms. Non daylily people buy
this plant on sight at triple the price of other plants.”
MATISSE
“ one of my favorite hems period, another unusual color scheme going from coral to almost red with a beautiful
watermark slightly lighter this is one of those that I will never give up.”
“ Rose with a pink watermark, nice. Reblooms.”
“ What a gorgeous combination of coral shades!”
MAYAN POPPY –
“I've only seen a few blooms of this so far and can't quite describe the color. Suffice it to say it was aptly named.”
MERRY WITCH
“I just love this sun fast rich blended rose coloured flower. (In other words I do not know how to describe the
colour. <BG>) The plant has been hardy for me and grows very well. The flowers are very large and always open
well no matter what the weather is like.”
“ An extremely bright coral-red.”
“ lovely pink with red tones, big bloom, very pretty”
“ one of my top 20 favorite all time daylilies, Rose w a lighter eye, big 6 inch flower”
“ another rose colored beauty with a slightly lighter eye”
MORTICIA
“ love the color, shape, vigor, bud count”
“wonderful parent for UF's”
MOST NOBLE “beautiful lemon self, round and softly ruffled “
MOUNTAIN VIOLET –
“very similar to RUSSIAN RHAPSODY but much hardier for me.”
“ a real beauty”
NAIROBI NIGHT
“ first saw this in Howard Hite's garden at the Detroit National Convention in the mid 1980s. Just loved that
watermarked purple and had to have it. Will always be in my garden as will”
“ Another one of the famous Munson purples, this one is a lighter shade of purple than RESPIGHI”
“ Tall, dark and handsome, blooming reliably in my garden for 6 years with the ever increasing holly tree providing
competition. Many daylilies in this situation have given up and had to be moved. Are not the hardest to breed traits
vigor and resistance to adversity ?”
NIGERIAN NIGHT “ Ron's favorite purple - Many of our customers ask us for this every year”
NILE CRANE “ '78 breathtaking lavender gorgeous bloom form”
NILE PLUM
“Plum, orchid, red-orchid eye. Beautiful! Continual bloom.”
“rich violet-plum shade with a very large creamy watermark that has a shape like a daylily; stunning flower with a
silver wire edge on the petals ; and a late bloomer that I always look forward to”
NIVIA GUEST
“is a lovely reddish purple with a large chalky watermark. BG has been very hardy here in my garden and has
grown and increased well. The scapes are a bit tall for my tastes but the plant is good and healthy and grows well.
The clarity of colour in the flower I like very much.”
“ Flowers bloomed deep purple with a lighter chalky eye zone and yellow-green throat.”
OLIVE BAILEY LANGDON
“because it reblooms so nicely, and has been a good pod parent for me. Will set with just about anything. This
daylily has been my first to bloom AND my last to bloom for several years now. No other daylily I have has such a
long bloom cycle. Usually get 3 sets of scapes, one very early, one mid to late, and one late fall. “
“ 1974 this daylily routinely blooms in November or December”
“still going strong and providing fantastic color”
“ violet purple”
ORIENTAL SILK “ is in re-bloom now in my garden”
PALACE GUARD
“ great red”
“Rebloomed twice and love the clear vibrant red”
PALACE PAGODA
“ another oldie, but a plant I couldn't live without - a soft yellow with perfect blooms every time - the most amazing
clump that attracts the attention of everyone who visits”
“ pretty full cream blend that sometimes doubles. I had it listed in my database as an Ida Munson cv because that's
what Eureka says, but after someone named it on this poll I checked and discovered that it was really Bill's creation.
“
PERSIAN MARKET
“ This is year another that did in Kentucky and has done well here. It makes this list although it faltered a bit, but
was no fault of the plant. When I lifted it, I found a nasty cavernous air pocket left by a decaying tree stump I did
not know was there. The plant, now in solid soil has taken off very strongly.”
“ This one is completely hardy. For me it is ML and it really stands out in the garden.”
PERSIAN PLUM
“ I still have it.... just broke up the clump last year, it was huge. I remember that I paid $15 for it from Dottie
Warrell sometime in the mid 80's. It had been planted in the same spot undisturbed all those years. Had well over
50 scapes each year. I am listing it as a favorite because it got planted in pure hard clay, before I knew much about
daylilies, went thru several years of abuse (no mulch, no water, no fertilizer, no anything, planted on a hill in heavy
clay) and did nothing but flourish.”
“gets very tall here, but an exquisite color (6" mauve plum, lime throat)”
PHARAOHS TREASURE “unusual, what a throat!”
PRINCESS MOONBEAM
“One of the first patterned daylilies purchased. Lovely salmon pink blend with green/yellow/pink radiating from the
throat.”
PURPLE TWILIGHT TIME
“this one links the softness of the lavenders with the bold richness of the deeper purples.”
“('94) SEv 28" MLa described as a "Large broad purple with lighter damask like eye." It grows vigorously, is well
branched, opens well after cool nights, has heavy substance, and can be seen from across the garden. Others have
already mentioned this one, but it needs more press because it is bold and different enough to command attention
although not so unmistakably a Munson trademark intro as COURT MAGICIAN or others of that so definite
chalky-eye genre.”
“ Another of Munson's great purples. Great flower and plant. Reblooms in Florida.”
QUEEN'S CAPE
“as such a wonderful gold edge. as it isn't listed with an edge I wrote person I had traded and said I think you sent
me wrong plant but I want to keep it. just tell me what it is. he replied it is QC. a great trade on my part.”
REINE de VIOLETES “gorgeous color and texture”
RESPIGHI
“Wine/black with chalky wine eyezone. Blooms and increases here in part shade! Lovely color in the afternoon.”
“ An early 20th century classical composer. Oops, we are talking daylilies. As most of you know, Bill Munson was
famous for his purples. This dark purple may have been my favorite purple this year. Although he may have been
surpassed in recent years with some of the Hanson and Moldovan purples, if you were to set the clock back to say
1990, Bill Munson would have ruled tet purples.”
“ a wonderful wine/purple color, heavy bloomer, just love it.”
“ another beautiful purple”
“ Deep black-purple with purple eye.”
“ Love the purple - it gets great admiration during garden tours.”
“another beautiful purple”
“ The watermark makes this one distinctive.”
RICHARD TAYLOR
“ again a cherry red unlike any other the plant is great the color breathtaking and I LIKE IT!”
RILEY BARON, “ a good red for us; bad reds are those that end up like melted candy on 95+ deg. days.”
ROYAL EXCHEQUER “a pure red that is sun fast and extended. You have to see it to believe it.”
ROYAL HEIRESS – “tall regal burgundy “
ROYAL HERITAGE –“Nice plum with an unusual violet eye”
RUE DE LAPE “(to die for)”
RUFFLED DUDE
“is a light cream color with strong substance and extravagant ruffles. Planted in a sheltered location, it has
increased well, has good branching, and always opens perfectly.”
“ is a very hardy ruffled cream with its heritage mentioned in Sidney Edison's book PASSION FOR DAYLILIES.”
RUFFLED LEMON LACE
“ beautiful lemon cream with a darker lemon gold edge on a very flat round flower what is really nice is the flower
presentation sort of like happy suns glancing right at you or just slightly away.”
“ is closely related to RUFFLED DUDE but always opens flat and round. It has huge yellow ruffles and a pale
yellow flower with a crepe texture. It has excellent substance, great bud count, excellent branching and is easily
fertile. It is both hardy and vigorous.”
RUFFLES ELEGANTE
“the granddaddy of gold-edged lavenders, long before IDA'S MAGIC.”
“poor mans IDA'S MAGIC”
“ it sulked for years in a bed right beside the the house. The colours were awful. I divided it and moved it last fall
and it's thrived beautifully and the colours are fantastic! It must have hated the hot reflection from the white siding.”
“a nice lilac pink with a great gold edge”
RUSSIAN RHAPSODY
“ new to my garden this year but bloomed exactly as the picture showed it would, an incredible color with a great
eye.”
“ under 2 ornamental cherry trees also and fights for light, water and nutrients plus people traipsing along the brick
path and refuses to quit.”
“ The one that got me first interested in Daylilies. I was a great grower for me in Lexington, Kentucky. I brought a
division off that plant down here with me, where it also performs great and even reblooms.”
“ one that everyone knows and needs no introduction.”
“ Doesn't everyone know this plum purple with deep purple eye?”
“ always liked this one.”
“ loads of scapes, looks fantastic in a clump.”
SALZBURG
“ hard to say which of the small bright red Munson's I've collected is the best, but this won out by a hair. Reds tend
to be muddy in our cool climate, but this one does a good job of retaining its
brightness.”
SARI
“one of our first plants. A great reddish coral. A color that is hard to describe and has been difficult for me to
capture on film. Prolific bloomer that has clumped well for us. Finding other great coral colored DLs has become
part of our collection endeavors and SARI started it.”
“ (1973) is a dip unlike most Munson daylilies. The color is unique and hard to describe.”
“ nice color that can be paired with nearly any color”
“ I often see it described as an orchid color, but here it's more coral - and I'm partial to that color”
SCARAMOUCHE.
“A very pretty heavy blooming thing. Reblooms. Excellent for Florida. I did not grow this one in Kentucky.”
“ older, bold eyed, with sharply contrasting colors”
“ very vigorous grower even with the drought”
“anyone else using this on spiderish things?”
SEA URCHIN
“ This one is a rose mauve with a gold edge. It is narrow enough to possibly use in a tet spider/unusual form
program. Moderately fertile, a difficult pod parent for me, but it did produce a few seeds.”
“my birthday, anniversary and Christmas present from my husband when we first started buying daylilies. I had to
promise my husband I'd never tell that he paid $100.for it!”
“love its bubbly edge”
SEMIRAMIDE
“another gorgeous watermarked purple. Not widely available but should be. Took me a couple of years to learn the
pronunciation of this operatic name: 4 syllables with the accent on the third.”
SERENGETI
“is such a soft blending of peach, sand, and ivory that may not be among the first Munson daylilies that come to
mind when you think of Bill's work, but it is truly a serenely beautiful daylily with much refinement and vigorous
growth habits. Once again, we have another Munson daylily that demonstrates Bill's belief that plant vigor is of
paramount concern when introducing daylilies.”
“peach ivory blend, 26 x 6, rapid growth and very robust. Always a hit.”
“ after all this time, STILL my favorite pod parent – wonderful creamy ruffled blooms - total perfection every time”
SHIBUI SPLENDOR
“I look forward to its bloom each spring. The petals remind me of seersucker material and the color is a cream
overlaid with pink and a throat of chartreuse green. A very soothing plant in the garden.”
“ a great, cream to pink diploid - kind of surprising that it is a dip!”
SHISHEDO
“ an all around beautiful plant”
“ An excellent pink. Love to set pod on this one”
“ Have many seeds from this one for January planting. “
“ fell in love with the picture in Mr. Munson's book, and the flower is just like it. Beautiful shading of the yellow
eye into the rich pink color of the petals.”
SILVER ICE –
“this past summer was the first year this daylily bloomed in my garden and it is obviously a great performer. The
pale ice pink flowers open very well and the plant is first class.”
“still stands out like an Ice Queen”
“ Delicate looking but tough”
“ which grows everywhere, blooms well, and is simply lovely”
SILVER SPRITE “Another top flight cultivar, another one that is giving some incredible edged seedlings.”
SOVEREIGN QUEEN
“ Love the shades of lavender and cream throat. “
“a "raspbery lavender"”
SPANISH MASQUERADE
“ still blooming as of 10/7/99 and looks great against dark brick. Behaves itself in a narrow spot.”
“ 1981 a seersucker diploid”
“ an oldie but goodie”
“every daylily grower should have this one”
SPRING WILLOW SONG “the fragrant yellow daylily tree”
STRAWBERRY CUPCAKE
“The best large rose colored daylily that I grow. It has everything, substance, wide-form, clear color, green throat,
flat opening and multi-branching with evenly spaced blooms.”
SULTANS RUBY
“one of the brightest, most velvety surfaced, reds in my garden. Its absolutely an outstanding color. Its fault of not
opening one petal completely a lot of the time keeps it from being incredible. When it opens perfectly, its the best!”
“ by far one of the best true ruby reds I have ever seen”
“ ‘81 . . . what a ruby red”
TEMPLE GODDESS
“ beautiful pink, lots of blooms.”
“ Does fine in Michigan”
TIFFANY GOLD
“ A beautiful large creped gold yellow. This one has pucker power. Reblooms.”
“ Crepe? Corduroy? Whatever you call the texture of the petals, it's wonderful.”
TIME LORD
“ perhaps not the most beautiful but a nice rich red that gets my vote because it frequently is polytepal and what a
bold impressive flower when it does.”
“ gets a lot of looks here too.”
TROPICAL SNOW “ One of my first, and still one of my favorites. Branches like a tree in zone 4”
TWILIGHT MADONNA
“Munson 82, 24 m sev 6 tet. Ivory lilac (royal Heritage x Snow Shadows). Every year, I do I think about using the
spot this "oldie" grows in to plant something NEW? Do I follow through?--------An emphatic NO, I sure don't,
because I can't face a spring without TM.”
VENETIAN MAGISTRATE
“have you all seen the picture of CHINESE TEMPLE FLOWER in Munson's book? Well, CTF fades, but VM does
not, and if you want a blue purple with a big, irregular cream eye, that draws attention, you ought to get VM.”
VICTORIA ELIZABETH BARNES – “1977 one of the most popular pinks in the garden”
VICTORIAN DAYS
“new to us, but oh so pretty and bloom a long time this year in the heat and drought “
“ a great flower. It is flat with excellent substance and a strong ruffled gold edge. It is a healthy plant and has
excellent hardiness and vigor. The flower colour is chalky rose.”
VIVACIOUS
“his one is from the mid 60's and a diploid. Interesting shade of old rose. Not a modern shape, but it looks good in
the garden and tolerates a lot of shade. It's one of those that would get lost in a
planting of 'modern' daylilies, but looks great in a mixed border.”
WAR MARCH “got a nice clump of this last fall (flower site unseen) but it really surprised me this year.”
WARRIOR PRINCE
“Munson 85, 20 e 5 d Chinese red tet. This is one of the first daylilies I purchased for a huge dollar price (then) from
Handy Hatfield--must have been in 1990, or so. Now why is it that I want to dig up this cultivar each year to put
something NEW in that spot, but never do? It is a "keeper," that is why, and because it is an eye-catching clump in
early, early Ohio spring. A beautiful red (going towards brick-red color). Plant it by itself in front of an evergreen
shrub, and you have a beautiful, impressive, and unforgettable image. Good multiplier.”
WRAPPED IN GOLD
“This one has incredible bud count, superior vigor and its seedlings may be being born before their time.”
YASMIN
“Munson 69, 30 em 6 sev tet. Yellow blend with flesh tone-blend and green throat. This one is definitely a "keeper"
daylily. After finding "good homes" for about 50 cultivars this summer, this one stayed here. No one who has this
Munson creation would wonder why I kept it in a 'RED AND RECKAMP" garden! “
“ such subtle colours, but put it with deep burgundies and it really shines”