Murphy, '07 - 46" Mre 9" ev.dip.UF - crispate. Radical twirled squash-blossom gold, green throat

OCTOPUS TANGLES attracted attention on its first bloom, when 10 people were clustered around it exclaiming WOW! at its radical 14" bloom. The extreme quilled crispate blooms are a flashy gold, creped, folded, and twirled. Very green throat, and a small cream edge. Tall, with only one branch, and low teens bud count, but has reliable instant rebloom here. The huge blooms will mean a quick sell out! Midseason and EMO will equal a great show flower. Evergreen, out of two hardy parents, GREEN DRAGON by JANS TWISTER. Fertile both ways.

Parentage: GREEN DRAGON x JANS TWISTER

Omicron (Murphy, 2026) 38” Early 6” dormant diploid
2 branches and 15 buds, but with a long and slow season of bloom. Lavender bitone with very large green to yellow throat. Sepal tips are sometimes pointed. This is a striking and eyecatching daylily in the early garden. Sepals are pointed during cold overnights and wet mornings. Extremely sunfast.
Parentage: (Shards of Kryptonite x Freaky People)
$100 for Double Fans

(Reed, 2008) 34" MLa 6.5" dormant diploid This warm pink exotic is a variable unusual form it often cascades, and often becomes a pinched crispate unusual form. It is large, lush, full, and showy. It is very ruffled, with the yellow throat blending out into candy shades of cream, pink, and rose. There are darker edges on the sepals, lighter ruffles on the petals. It is has 2-3 way top branching with 14-16 buds. Luscious, it earned the garden name, "Pink Exotica". Fairy tale material.

(Murphy, 2012) 51" EMRe 6" Dormant diploid Extended

This tall reddish lavender has a purple band, small yellow throat, yellow midrib, and tiny ruffled cream edge. It starts blooming at Early Midseason and continues until late September in good conditions. It has instant rebloom. The most important characteristic of this plant, in my mind, is that it is a bud builder, nip and tuck with MONACAN TRAIL and JIMS EVIL GRIN. Branching is moderate at 2. Initial bud count is 19, but by the end of the season, with the scapes continuing to spiral and grow buds, can be 40.
In good conditions, Bud Builders can extend the season by months. In drought conditions, they will not.

Parentage Unknown. Fertile both ways.

( Murphy 2022) 37" MRe 6.5" Dormant, Diploid; 2 branches, 15 buds.

Cream with a red-lavender patterned jagged etched eye. Light green throat and cream midribs. Strong scapes, rain-resistant blooms, very sunfast. Blooms a long time. Fertile both ways, and I have excellent future intros from it. Late-freeze resistant, dormant blue green foliage.
Out of ((( Mad Jacky x Faulkner seedling) x (Dream Sequence)) x Opal Road.)

Murphy, E. '07 - 45" Vlre 6.5" Dor dip Striking rose with gold and green throat, cream midribs. Fertile.

This always impresses people in the very late garden, with it's consistent performance in August, September, and even October. One of the latest daylilies still in bloom in the fall in most gardens. This year, it has not started yet on July 25th.
Blooms with AFTER AWHILE CROCODILE, BARBARA, and LATE REPORT, pretty much our latest registered daylilies.
2017- Bloomed from 7/20-9/15.

(Reed, 2018) 42" MRe 7" dormant, diploid, Unusual Form-cascade

Opal Road is the best of a large number of patterned seedlings from the cross of a Faulkner seedling with my Cherry Peacock. It is tall, dormant, and diploid, with a large bloom with good substance. Its outstanding characteristic though is the clean, clear colors. It is a clear near-white cream base color, and the patterned eyezone is sharply defined and ranges in color from cream to berry to rosy purple. Many layers of color appear, and the pattern can range from one concentric circle of cream to four. Even when less dramatic pattern is showing, it is gorgeous shades of color. It is a uf cascade-spatulate form. Pollen and pod fertile, it is a good parent. It has re-bloomed for us twice this fall, opening well in cold weather, and with extended bloom late into the evening. It has two branches and 14 buds. Parentage: (Faulkner seedling x Cherry Peacock) Supply is extremely limited.

Reed, 1991 - 26" Ere 6" dor.dip. Orange with red-orange eyezone, gold throat. Reblooms. HM

Organized Wine (Murphy, 2026) 38” Late 7” dormant diploid UF crispate.
Black- purple to wine. Lighter edges and midribs, light green throat. Exhibits
variable crispate forms. 4 branches, 18 buds. Blooms late for a very long time, with budbuilding. Has very three dimensional blooms- see images. Easy parent. Can bloom taller as it budbuilds in good conditions.
Parentage: (Darkest Night x Habanero)
Double fans- $100

(Murphy 09) 37" Ere 7" Sev Dip Spider

I am happy to introduce you to this great flower with a deep, wide green throat. Clear, light pink, with a rose band and that striking green throat. It is a 4:1 spider, with 2 branches and 16 buds under poor conditions, and more with good conditions. It is sunfast here, and fertile. It is out of MAD MAX by DESERT ICICLE, and should do well in a wide climactic range.

Very long bloom season. June 5 to July 24 in 2015. 2017- I love this flower with it's reliability in all conditions and great green throat. Long blooming and sunfast. June 8 until July 20 in 2022.

OUT TO GET YOU (Murphy 2016) 44” ML 5.5” Dormant Dip, 3 branches 30 buds, UF Cascade
Very dark black red cascade with a “ Sunburst” yellow throat and green heart. Good branching and a long bloom season when most are done for the year make this one stand out. In our garden, this is sunfast to 98F. Out of two nearly-sunfast parents: GRIM REAPER x FOCUS. Fertile, good parent for sunfast, dark, dormants. Very limited. Rebloomed in 2017-one of my most used parents, sets pods easily. Excellent grower.

Not registered as a rebloomer, but is now reliably reblooming for us, usually more than once.

(Murphy 09) 40" M 8.5" Sev Dip ext Cascade Unusual Form

"Striking" well describes this huge cream flower with chartreuse throat and yellow midrib. The first bloom ever on this plant was so big I couldnt believe it. It has the habit of putting out extreme first blooms on every scape, and calming down to a tiny 8.5" on last blooms. It is a low percentage polytepal, so expect some surprises. As with some huge flowers, this one has a minimal 2 branches and 12 buds in poor conditions. It can have much more with excellent care. Fragrant, extremely fertile, and an excellent parent for huge cascades. Out of a Benzinger seedling (Bmlwhuf), by LUNA. Sunfast.

Bennett, F., '00 - 25" Mre 6" dor.dip. Rose, with red band, yellow green throat, performance plus. Pretty.
I am trying to get this and other wonderful round diploids distributed in other areas. I think that they are worthy. Bud Bennett was a hybridizer of diploids in Maryland for many years. A regional favorite hybridizer, we have quite a few of his, and all seem to be excellent.

( Murphy, 2021 ) 32" MLre 6.5" Dormant, Diploid

The ultimate in saturated, sunfast reds. It has a slight black sheen on the petals in the morning and a green throat. It had good rebloom this year. Late freeze- resistant blue green foliage. Three branches and 18 buds. Blooms a long time.
Out of (It Glows x Lava Stream)
Pollen fertile and somewhat pod fertile. Makes very sunfast kids, mostly cascades.
A fast and reliable grower- lower price now!

(Reed, 2013) 32" MRe 7.5" dormant, diploid, extended bloom; Unusual Form – Cascade

Pure color is the main feature of this cultivar. The cool, blue-ish dark pink stands out in the garden like a beacon. Out of Crystalline Entity, it has a color value that is rare. The branching and bud count are not outstanding, but the large blooms and re-bloom make it a performer. Graceful, tightly ruffled blooms. Pod and pollen fertile.

Double fans.

(Reed, 2013) 45" M 6" dormant, diploid, extended bloom; Unusual form – Cascade

Rich grape purple recurves into a cascade, with a blue-ish lavender watermark and white midribs. Occasional color breaks add to the excitement! 3 branches and 30 buds. Pollen fertile. (Planet Max x Skinwalker)

Double fans.

(Reed, 2017) 38" EM 7.5" dormant, diploid, 3 branches - 21 buds (Flight of Orchids x Earth Jewels) UF - cascade.
Soft lavender cascade with large plum-purple eye bleeding out onto the petals, has a green throat.

This luscious exotic is plum-beautiful colors. Plumbum is the latin word for lead, and is the name of a duckling paperweight that has traveled around our family for 60 years, made by my father in 1939 in engineering grad school at U. Michigan!

(Murphy 2022) 48" LRe 6" Dormant, Diploid; 6 branches, 31 buds! Unusual Form Cascade

Lemon Cream with cream midribs and green throat in the morning, fading to cream to near white on hot days. Very curly and ruffled. Covered in blooms for 6-8 weeks, on tall scapes. Fertile both ways and I have future intros out of it. Sunfast.
Out of (August Snow x Heavenly White Lightning).
Excellent parent. Sets pods easily. Passes on branching and budcount to the kids.

(Murphy, 2017) 37" EM 7" dormant, diploid, 3 branches - 20 buds (Smoke Scream x Carolina Flying Poly Possum) Polymerous 95%. Has won an HM and Extra Large Award on the National level.
Light pink cream with a lavender eye, chartreuse throat, and lemon colored pollen. This poly seems to be a favorite of all of our visitors. Visible from across the garden. Most blooms are very consistent and almost every bloom is a poly in our garden. Pod fertile only. It is very difficult, but possible to bloom seed from this.
Won an HM in 2024, and the Extra Large Diameter Award in 2024.

Excellent poly, very reliable.
Not registered as a rebloomer, but I had two sets of rebloom on some plants this year. Would probably be a good rebloomer south of here. 2022 We had 4 way branching and 25 buds.

(Murphy, J.P., 2025) 40" M 6.5" Dormant Diploid, Polymerous

Heavily ruffled cream with lavender band (bands are just on petals) and light green throat. Poly about 85%. 2 branches and 13 buds, but with a long season of bloom for the minimal bud count.
Parentage: (Octomom x Eight Is Great). Fertile both ways. Distinctive.

One or two plants MAY be available in August 2026. Jim

(Reed, 2019) 34" EM 6.5" dor., dip. UF crispate-cascade
Peach-cream parchment with big dark black-purple feathered eye reaching far out on the segments with a tiny purple edge on ruffled petals. It usually has pinched sepals and curling, cascading petals. 3 branches and 12 buds. Stunning in the garden, and very important in our breeding program. It doesn’t show a pattern, but contributes to pattern breeding. Fertile both ways. Named after a physicist wizard in the DiscWorld series of Terry Pratchett. Parentage (Flight of Orchids x Pattern Maker)

(Murphy 2011) 61" EM 7" Dormant diploid, U F Cascade

Named for a cool mountain in the Shenandoah Valley. Bud Builder.

Very tall lemon cream cascade with green throat, ruffled edge, and creped texture. Early morning opener, and extended bloomer, blue green foliage, and strong scapes. 100% sunfast. 2 branches and 21 buds.Bud builds to up to 34 buds. Blooms 5-6 weeks here. Fertile, out of MONACAN TRAIL by JUST JESSIE. In bloom on September 15th here, this year. Tall!
Has bloomed for 12 weeks here several years. Excellent bud builder in good conditions.

M. Reed 2023 -Puzzle Pieces is a narrow patterned daylily that has been an important breeder for me. It is lavender-pink with a green throat, and the purple feathered eye contains a pattern with multiple cream-pink arrows extending out onto the narrow petals. The pattern is fairly consistent and the substance is good. The bloom is lightly ruffled.

36" EM Re 7.5" dormant diploid, Unusual Form-Cascade. 3 branches with 19 buds. I am using it to try to achieve a pattern that reaches the tips of the petals on a narrow cascade. Good rebloomer. Pod and pollen fertile.

Parentage: (Opal Road x Ponder Stibbons) Sibling to Thief of Time! There is little resemblance between the two, however.

(Murphy, J.P., 2025) 30" MRe 5.25" Dormant Diploid, Polymerous

Much anticipated introduction of this unique, heavily re-blooming poly.

Cream to light lemon cream with green throat, reddish lavender extended eye with veins, and cream midrib. It patterns but is variable in some weather. Ruffled petals. 80% poly on first scapes here, and 99.5% on rebloom scapes. It starts at mid season and in most years reblooms multiple times until it freezes. One year it rebloomed 4 times on average and one year just once. Limited branching and bud count at 2 branches and 10 buds.
However, in 2025, with good rain, it averaged 3 branches and 14 buds.

I guess the coolest thing about this flower is that it is distinct and unique.

Parentage: (((Starlight Splash x Faulkner seedling) x Flight of Orchids) x (Snooks Harville seedling x Starlight Splash))

It therefore has poly genes, reblooming genes, and pattern genes. I have several future introductions from this one. Fertile both ways.
2 plants available for Spring 2026.

M. Reed 2023 -Raspberry Fairy blooms are deeply ruffled raspberry red with a very green throat, held on tall, graceful branched scapes.
45" MLa Re 7.5" dormant diploid, Unusual Form crispate with good substance. 3 branches, 14 buds.
Looks like a richer-colored version of Garden Fairy. Has a slight watermark

Parentage: (Garden Fairy x Metzger's Purple Storm) This is a sibling to Rockfish River!

( Murphy, 2012) 46" M 6" Dormant Diploid UF Cascade Extended

The color is very different - clear raspberry, with apricot throat and cream midrib. It has ruffled recurved petals edged in pink to cream. The color can be seen as different from across the garden. "Jewel-Like" is what Margo calls it. 3 branches, 26 buds. Very special.

Parentage: MARGO REED INDEED by HEAVENLY CURLS. Fertile, good parent.

Double fans

(Reed, 2025) 36" Late 6.5" dormant diploid

Clean cream-white background with a green throat and multi-colored eye blending bands of amethyst purple and rose-lavender like the reflections on a Crow's feathers. Graceful form (Unusual Form cascade) with ruffling. Excellent branching – 4 branches, 24 buds. Named for a bird-watcher's overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Unusual Form Cascade.

Parentage: (Seedling "late stippled cascade" x Cherry Peacock)

Murphy 2020 42" MLa 7" dormant, diploid, Unusual Form

Brightest, clear red Unusual Form - Crispate. Very sunfast. Every bloom is a little different shape. All tepals extend slightly forward from center. Completely distinctive. 6 branches, 47 buds! And it is a bud-builder. Expect 2 months of bloom under good conditions. This year started bloom 6/20 and bloomed until October 20. . Out of Stretch by TNT.
2025 extremely good performance this year, with 5 branches and 40 buds.

Reed, 2004 - 42" La 6" dor.dip. Late up-facing red, good branching

The image shows fairly well just how saturated and bright a red this is. If you want red in August, try this one.

(Murphy-J.P. 2023)

25” EM 5.75” Dormant Diploid Unusual Form Cascade

Cherry Red with light green to cream throat, cream midribs. Sunfast to 90+. Fertile, good parent. 4 branches, 16 buds.

Out of ( Evil Gnome x Negative Image) by Cartwheel Galaxy).

(Murphy, 2021) 37" MLaRe 5.5" dormant diploid; 3 branches, 18 buds. Unusual Form: Cascade

Lemon-cream-pink blend, bitone, very reflexed bloom. Very sunfast, fertile both ways. It blooms an extremely long time with instant re-bloom. It has widely-spaced branches. Fertile both ways. It is out of (Last Chance for Romance x Thank You Dad).
2021- Still in bloom 8/20/21

Richter Scale 2.0 (Reed, 2025) Fall
34” Early 6” dormant diploid, 4 branches, 26 buds
This early gem is a reverse bi-tone of pale amber with rose midribs and lavender-rose edges. In the eyezone there is a rose-purple and yellow sharp pattern, with a deep green throat. It has good plant habits and dark green foliage. The blooms have good substance and ruffles. Pollen and pod fertile.
Parentage: ((Flight of Orchids x Faulkner seedling) x Cherry Peacock)
Double fan: $100.00

(Reed, 2015) 42" M 6.5" dormant diploid

This will turn heads! It is a twisty rose red with green throat, lighter edges, and white midribs. An Unusual Form crispate, it has excellent substance and movement! 3 branches, 18 buds. Fertile both ways.

(Peacock Curls x Cherry Peacock).

(Reed 2022) 36" MLaRe 7" dormant, diploid; UF-cascade, top branching

This is a large, deeply-ruffled Unusual Form cascade; pale creamy-yellow with darker purple band on the petals and a very green throat. It has been a garden favorite for years. Pod and pollen fertile.

(Trance sibling x Pattern Maker)

Murphy, '05 - 38" Mla 6.5" dor.dip. Outrageous clear lemon, radical UF, green throat. This has proven perfectly hardy in both zones 3 and 9 ( west). One of my favorites because it is always perfect, every day, with excellent budcount and growth. Out of SUNNY SON by SPIDER MIRACLE. Fertile, proliferates, fragrant.
Lots of proliferations that root easily.

This outrageous clear light yellow to chartreuse flower is a radically shaped crispate unusual form. It is quite variable as well. It has a large grass green throat with very ruffled, lighter edged petals. The sepals are so rolled that you can't see the edge. It has three branches and 17 buds, with instant rebloom, for a long season. It proliferates heavily. It is dormant, and has famous parentage, carrying genes for ruffled edges, red, chartreuse, and yellow, ensuring that it will be in demand by hybridizers. Award Winner.

Parentage: SUNNY SON X SPIDER MIRACLE

Rockfish River is a deep, rich purple with a green throat blending to cream that reaches out onto the midribs. It has strong branched scapes and ruffled blooms at a medium height. 36" tall MLa Rebloom 7.5" bloom, dormant diploid. Unusual Form-crispate
3 branches with18 buds. Some rebloom. Pod and pollen fertile.

Parentage: (Garden Fairy x Metzger's Purple Storm). This is a sibling to Raspberry Fairy!

The Rockfish River is in Nelson County, Virginia and runs through the small rural town of Schuyler, home of the original "Walton's Mountain" family tv show, and a number of soapstone quarries.

(Murphy, 2019) 39" MLa 6.5" dormant diploid, UF - Crispate/cascade.
Gorgeous clear red black color with a darker band, sometimes a bitone, with green throat and cream midribs. It blooms heavily for up to 2 months, and sometimes reblooms. 4 branches and 19 buds. Sunfast here to 94F. Fertile both ways, and makes very dark dormant UF kids. Parentage – (Out To Get You x Cabernet Cabaret).
This plant and Out To Get You are producing my best darkest, sunfast future intros.

(Reed, 2021) 36” MLa Re 6.5” dormant, diploid, Unusual Form cascade
Bright rose pink with a darker rose-red band, very green throat, and cream white midribs; bright contrasting color with heavy ruffling. 3-way branching, bud count 18. Pod and Pollen fertile. Named after our very active Border Collie, Millie.
Parentage: ((Grey Witch x Crabtree Falls) x (Metzger’s Purple Storm x Peacock Curls Heavenly Curls))

(Reed, 2010) 36" EM 5" dormant diploid ext. 4 branches, 20 buds.

An early small gem on well-branched scapes. Soft pink lavender with feathery purple chevrons like gills, lighter ruffled edges, and green to white throat. Unusual Form cascade. (Flight of Orchids x Loch Ness Monster)

(Reed, 2012) 34" M 6" dormant, diploid.

This wickedly ruffled and recurved bloom glows with a golden beach sand color, blending caramel tan, gold, and peach pink. Following in the footsteps of Brown Witch, Grey Witch, and Third Witch, Sand Witch has great plant habits and more graceful form. It has 3-way branching with lots of buds. It was planned to be white (see parentage - all whites) but sometimes one can't pass up the spell of the moment. It is out of (Margo Reed Indeed x Ice Water) x Scandinavia.

Probably should have been mid-late; blooms heavily into August (2016)

(Murphy 2014) 32" ML 6.5" Dormant Diploid Cascade UF

Light lemon cream cascade with light green throat, cream midrib, very heavy bloomer. Completely sunfast, and rain resistant. 4 or more branches and 32 buds, but can have as many as 60 buds. This plant is covered in bloom for about 3 weeks. Out of ((Mountain Top Experience x Rocket Science) x Skinwalker)) x Margo Reed Indeed. Fertile, but difficult for pods. Very consistent in the late July to early August garden here.
Excellent grower and garden plant. Rebloomed heavily in 2020.

(Reed 2022) 36" MRe 6" dormant, diploid; UF-cascade, 3-way branching, 12 buds

Complex stippled/blended cream-lavender with feathered purple eye and green throat. Sepals are a darker tone of lavender. This reverse bi-tone is a unique graceful, ruffled, Unusual Form. Good pod fertility.

((Chin Whiskers x Little Witching Hour) x Flight of Orchids) x (Cabernet Cabaret x (Military School x Faulkner sdlg))

Goldner, '00 - 72" M 7" dor.tet fragrant, ext. Very tall yellow polychrome that has branches and blooms for a long time. Massive thick scapes look like green cobras coming out of the ground.
2021- Still in bloom with many buds to go on 8/9/21.

(Murphy 2012) 48" Very Late 5.5" Dormant Diploid Cascade

This wide, very recurved bright red has a narrow cream edge, white midrib, and yellow green throat with green heart. It is held tall on strong scapes with 2 branches and 22 buds, and is a moderate budbuilder. It blooms in latest July, August and September here. Out of ( AFTER AWHILE CROCODILE x WHEN I DREAM) x( BARNEGAT LIGHT). It is moderately sunfast, and fertile both ways. In the very late garden, it was Margo's and many others' favorite plant.

(Murphy, 2024) 43" EMre 6.5" dormant diploid
8 branches, 44 buds!!! UF Cascade. Parentage: (Frog’s Hair x Garden Fairy)
Reddish pink, cherry band, with light pink to cream edge and large green throat.
Gorgeous ruffled, heavily curling and cascading blooms.
Won an achievement medal as a seedling at National Capital Daylily Show. Blooms a long time, plus reblooms here late in the season. Fertile and an excellent parent.
One of the highest branched and budded plants here, and passes it on to it's kids.
I have four future intros from it.

(Reed, 2011) 45" EM 7.5" dormant, diploid, Unusual Form

This light purple cascade with a very green throat began in early June, and is finishing at the end of July (a bud builder!). A cool color, with diamond dusting, it recurves and cascades. 2-way branching with a bud count of about 20. Parentage unknown.

(Reed, 2024) 46" MLa 8" dormant diploid
UF Cascade. Purple! Rich Purple with a deeper dark eye flowing from an emerald-green throat on a large bloom. Bloom is gently cascading and tailored. Branching 3, bud count 14; lots of scapes. Parentage: (Eggplant Electricity x Monster Magic)

(Reed, 2012) 48" La 5.5" dormant, diploid

Rosy lavender with rose wine eye zone, gold cream throat feathering out onto the eye zone in rays. This tall, rather late daylily has great branching (4-way) and good bud count. It makes a stunning clump with the glowing throat and sunray pattern. It is out of FROZEN MERT X PLANET MAX. Pod and pollen fertile. Good parent!