Krakatoa Katie (2018) is a double tetraploid, orange with a red eye and double red and wire gold edge. It is an early/mid season bloomer, 25" tall, with a 5" bloom. It has fourteen buds and reblooms for us in our Zone 5/6 garden. We listed the pollen parent as unknown but, in fact, we know it to be either Volcano Queen or Bill Norris. (Triple Cherries x Unknown)

Lady Stephanie Victoria Redding (Polston, 2007) is one of our favorite late blooming daylilies. It is a dormant tetraploid with 5.5 inch bright red flowers with a ruffled toothy gold edge. Its scape is 30 inches tall with 4 branches and 20 buds. This daylily won an Honorable Mention in 2012 and a Junior Citation in 2007.(Ruffled Strawberry Parfait × sdlg) Awards: HM 2012, JC 2007

Last Man Standing (Benz, 2000) is a dormant tetraploid with 4.5 inch rose red bitone flowers about a green throat. Its scapes are 26 inches tall (taller in our garden) with 5 branches and 45 buds. It is registered as a rebloomer, but we have not observed that in our garden. It is fertile but you have to give it time to get well established before it will set pods. (Red Lightning × Angel's Smile)

Marmalade Muncher (Grossmann-M., 2010) is registered as a very late semi-evergreen tetraploid with 5.25 orange pink polychrome flowers with a toothy golden edge above a yellow throat. Its scapes are 35 inches tall with 3 branches and 14 buds. (Forestlake Becky × Forestlake Lawdy How Gaudy)

Melanie's Smile from Bryan Culver of Canada, has been in the garden for several years and does well here. Melanie's Smile has 36 inch scapes with 4 branches and 25 buds. It is a mid-late, semi-evergreen tetraploid with 5.5 inch flowers of ruffled rose red with a light white watermark above a large green throat. (Irish Rover × Elizabeth White)

Morano (Matton 10`6) is another daylily that arrived from Canada last spring. It is registered at 36 inches with blooms of 6 inches. It is a midseason, semi-evergreen tetraploid with 3 branches and 22 buds. It is white with large dark purple eye and dark purple edge with white filigree and green throat with heavy substance. (sdlg × sdlg)

Never Too Late (Mason-M., 2010) is registered as a very late blooming dormant tetraploid with 5 inch garnet purple bitone flowers with a pink watermark and a bubbly gold edge. Its scape is 26 inches tall with 4 branches and 20 buds. Never Too Late is one of the most colorful among our late bloomers. It is also quite pod fertile as well. ((Royal Braid × Time Warp) × Charmed Existence)

Odontos (Matton 2015) was planted last spring after being shipped from Canada. It will excited to see what it does this year. It is registered at 26 inches with a bloom of 5.5 inches. It is a midseason blooming, semi-evergreen tetraploid. It has 3 ranches and 20 buds is fragrant and will rebloom. It is red with a green throat and many chartreuse teeth. (Bass Gibson × Shamrock Blush)

Patricia Ann's Calliopsis is a beautiful hard-to-find bicolor. It is described as having bright velvet red petals with a large light red watermark, light red sepals with a yellow edge, and a yellow to green throat. It is registered with 32 inch scapes with a 7.5 inch flower. It's an early midseason dormant tetraploid with 4 branches and 22 buds.

Some people think Princess of Alexandria is one of the best of Roy Klehm's hybrids. It is a dormant tetraploid with golden orange blend 6 inch flowers on scapes of 34 inches. It blooms midseason. It is quite pod fertile once it gets established. It is always hard to find. Klehm's Song Sparrow Farm and Nursery apparently carried it for only one season.

Raggedy Man (Seifert, 2012) is an dormant tetraploid daylily that blooms late season. It has 5.5 inch luscious orange blooms with a wide yellow throat and a matching yellow toothy edge. Its scape is 29 inches tall with 3 branches and 18 buds. If you like the color orange and teeth, this is a must to grow. It is also quite fertile. (Mexican Sunrise × Ruffled Strawberry Parfait)

Raspberry Tears (Longton, 2015) has scapes of 30 inches with 4 way branching and 22 buds. The 4 inch flower is cream with a raspberry eye and edge with an unusual seersucker texture on the petals. It is a dormant, reblooming tetraploid that blooms midseason. Unknown X (Barbara Dittmer X Simply Divine)

Rocky Top is an excellent daylily for garden color. It is 37 inches tall with 4 way branching and 25 buds (some scapes had as many as 32 buds). It is a pinched crispate uf. The flowers are 7 inches of right golden yellow with a red eye and yellow to green throat. Tiny teeth line the petal edges. It's a mid-season, semi-evergreen tetraploid. At first Rocky Top was not what I was looking for in a yellow daylily with a red eye. At the time, I wanted to breed the bagel forms. Bob, however, liked it from the beginning. As the years went on, my appreciation for ufs increased and I realized the charm of this daylily. It is fertile both ways. (Back Draft X Identity Crisis)

Roi de Navare (Matton, 2016) is a semi-evergreen tetraploid with 32 inch scapes with 4 branches and 22 buds. It is a late season bloomer with very fragrant 6 inch blooms of medium pink with a dark purple eye and a dark purple edge with white filigree and a green throat. The hybridizer says that it reblooms in his garden. (sdlg × sdlg)

Rosalie's Smile (Morss, 2010) was quite a find. We bought it because it is late blooming and we really found a gem. It is a semi-evergreen tetraploid with 32 inch scapes with 4 branches and 29 buds. It flowers are 5 inches and are described in the American Hemerocallis Society database as butter yellow with a bold plum eye and edge above a green throat. To our eyes, the color is soft melon. The melon with the plum eye makes for a striking flower. The database says it is a rebloomer, but we have not observed that in our garden.

Rosie Cotton's Ribbons is a semi-evergreen tetraploid with a 5.5 rich rose pink flower with yellow toothy edge. It is 22 inches tall with 2 branches and 13 buds. It is a early-mid season bloomer and reblooms well in our zone 6a/5b garden. On rebloom it often shows doubling. It is a good increaser and is fertile both ways. (Chance Encounter X Forestlake Ragamuffin)

Ruffled Strawberry Parfait (Reckamp-Klehm, 2003) is a dormant tetraploid daylily with 6 inch cream and pink pastel blend flowers above a gold throat. It also has a toothy edge. Its scape is 28 inches tall. Ruffled Strawberry Parfait has been an important parent in breeding for teeth. It is quite pod fertile.

Sandra Elizabeth (Stevens-D., 1983) is a very late blooming dormant tetraploid with 6 inch deep yellow self flowers. Its scape is 28 inches tall. It won an Honorable Mention in 1993 and the Eugene S. Foster Award in 1993 as well.

Shirley Koch is from Canadian hybridizer Reggie Morgan. It has scapes of 34 inches with 3 branches and 14 buds. It is a midseason, dormant tetraploid with 8 inch flowers of a deep purple with a large watermark above a green throat. It is classified as an unusual form spatulate. This gift to our daughter in 2018 bloomed for the first time in 2019. We are happy to have this in our garden. The plant has large showy flowers and it is quite fertile too. (White Eyes Pink Dragon × Blue Beat)

Sihir is from Canadian hybridizer Daniel Matton. It is registered as a 30 inch scape with 5.5 inch flowers. It has 3 branches and 16 buds. The summer of 2018 was its first one in our garden, having been shipped in the spring. We are excited to see what the blooms look like in 2019. We plan to use this in our toothy programs.

Snidely Whiplash is from Canadian hybridizer Mike Georges. It has 38 inch tall scapes with 5.5 inch flowers. It is a semi-evergreen tetraploid with three branches and 30 buds. The flower is rose base color with a reddish burgundy eye with matching edge and second small white edge. It sets seed well and seems to like our zone 6a/5b garden. (Precious Candy × Blue Lake)

Sonoran Desert Rose is a dormant tetraploid daylily with 6.5 inch light red bitone flowers with a more intense eye and some gold edge. It is registered with a 36 inch scape with 3 branches and 20+ buds. However, in the summer of 2019, it had 6 way branching with scapes of 40 inches and a bud count of 30-40+. It is a late bloomer and very fertile both ways. (Ashwood Summer Sunshine X Cactus Blossom)

Stabia is from Canadian hybridizer Daniel Matton. It is registered at 53 inches with a 6 inch bloom. It is an unusual form crispate with magenta flowers with a large purple eye. It is a semi-evegreen tetraploid that blooms midseason with 4 branches and 16 buds. (sdlg × Freewheeling)