Cream white with a rose-red feathered eye extending out onto the petals,
green throat. It has 3 branches and 22 buds. Nice upright scapes and long
bloom season. Named after Marcia Zech's grand-daughter.
Parentage: (Ponder Stibbons x Opal Road) double fans $100.00
(Murphy, 2020) 30" M 5.5" dormant, diploid; 3 branches, 17 buds; Double-95%
Parentage: ((Crooked x Zada Mae) x Together at Last)
Absolutely glowing gold and orange blend that lightens to creamy gold in the afternoon. In my quest for hard dormant layered double diploids, this one checks all of my boxes. It doubles almost always, and shows around 90% layered form. Sunfast, period, with freeze resistant foliage! Pairs well with Brother Coal.
I registered it with 3 branches OOPS! Clumps this year have perfect 5 and 6 way branching and a large amount of buds. It is very consistent and reliable. Should be hardy in zone 3-4 based on it's parents hardiness. If you live in 3, I would like to send you one for shipping costs and you can let me know. Jim
2021- Very good rebloom two years in a row.
This distinctive blackish red colored spider has a darker patterned watermark, yellow midribs, and striking chartreuse patterned throat. Sunfast, period. This starts blooming after SANDRA ELIZABETH and blooms for up to 2 months due to 4 way branching and 26 buds. This, along with BETTER LATE THAN NEVER and CAYENNE, would bloom alone in most daylily gardens, with fresh foliage, and fresh blooms in August and September. Excellent parent for unusually colored spiders and UF'S.
(Murphy 2013) 50" ML 7" Dor Dip Ext UF Cascade Light pink with a lavender edge, large lemon throat. This plant blooms a very long time, and has lots of small proliferations. 4 branches, 25 buds, and is sunfast and rain resistant. Hard Dormant. Out of MARGO REED INDEED by NORTH WIND DANCER. Pollen fertile, pod difficult.
Not registered as a rebloomer, but has rebloomed heavily in the fall three years in a row. I mean heavily, with 4 or 5 branches, almost every plant reblooming. This suggests to me that it will rebloom in zones 6 and south.
Jim
(Reed, 2020) 36" EM 6" dormant, diploid; 3 branches, 21 buds;
Parentage: ((Military School x Faulkner sdlg) x Starlight Splash), patterned.
A soft cream-yellow to near-white bloom with a feathered raspberry eye consistently broken with a multi-colored pattern. This was chosen for its attractive pattern that is expressed as consistently as any in our variable weather conditions. It has a long season of bloom, good plant habits, and is pod and pollen fertile.
(Reed, 2017) 40" M 7.5" dormant, diploid, 3 branches-12 buds, ((Metzger's Purple Storm x (Peacock Curls x Cherry Peacock)) UF - crispate cascade.
Glowing ruby red with tiny white edge on sepals, and green throat that lightens into rose then red.
Out of purple and rose breeding, this has a cerise red color that has great intensity and purity.
Note from Jim: There is no clearer or brighter color in the garden than this flower. If you are looking for clarity, look no further.
(Murphy-JP, 2023) 31" EERe 5" Dormant Diploid
Beguiling combination of cream with a lavender blue eye etched in violet. White midribs split the eye. Ruffled petal edges. This is an up-close daylily - you want to look carefully to enjoy the combination of colors and pattern. 2 branches and 16 buds grown under a big maple tree. Fertile both ways. I have many future intros with this one in the parentage.
Out of ((Bo Knows x Faulkner seedling) x Best Uncle)
(Reed, 2015)
52" M 6.5" dormant, diploid 2 branches, 16 buds Unusual Form - Cascade
(Sumerduck x Just Jessie)
Ruffled light cream/near white with rose eye extending out onto petals; cream midribs with a large green throat; very consistent recurved form, ruffled cascade. Pollen fertile, pods sometimes. Still in bloom in early August.
Reed, 2005 - 40' Mla 7"; dor.dip.ext. Big flat ruffled white with substance
SNOWBOARDING features white blooms that are large, ruffled, and fairly flat that show off well in the garden. This is a slow growing plant (we've waited a few years for enough stock to introduce) but it has great plant habits - good foliage, 3-way branching, and around 15-18 buds. Not nearly as recurved as GLACIAL EPOCH, each petal is shaped more like a snowboard. Good substance. Fertile
SO IT BEGINS ( Murphy 2016) 30” EMRE 6” SEV Tet, 2 branches and 20 buds, UF Spatulate
Most patterned seedlings have good days, bad days, and lose their pattern to hot weather or long days in the garden. This TET intro is a long awaited, reliably patterned, all-day/any-weather plant with great color. Very fertile both ways, and has decent rebloom here. Lemon Cream with multiple patterned eyezone, green throat and a small picotee edge halfway onto the petals. Quite spatulate form, very sunfast, and lightens to cream on very hot days. Fertile with fantastic patterned kids. Sometimes goes dormant, but registered as a Semi Evergreen. Out of FISH FACE by BARCODE.
Very good rebloom in 2020 -2022.
Reed, 2005 - 32" M 5" dor.dip. Cream white with violet eye, green throat, UF/pinched crispate
Another surprise from the Jack Carpenter seedling, this near-white little gem has a tiny violet eye, and lots of ruffles. Usually all 3 sepals crispate. 4-way branching. Named for the local soapstone quarries near here.
SOUTH POLE (Reed, 2016) 42” La 6” dormant, diploid, 3 branches 18 buds, UF cascade
Polar opposite to North Pole (with its large, stiff crispate form and white/green colors), South Pole is a graceful, ruffled cascade in soft creamy snow white. Light green throat shifts to cream yellow late in the day. Out of my SNOWBOARDING X NED’S CHOICE (Lovett). Pod and pollen fertile.
Mauve with lavender eye and violet etching. Cream midribs, purple edge on petals, intense green throat. Blooms a tremendously long time, up to two months. 4 branches, around 25 buds. Freeze-resistant blue green foliage. Out of Starlight Splash by a Faulkner seedling. Very fertile. An excellent parent.
A gorgeous blend of rose, pink and red with green throat and cream midribs. Registered with 5 way branching and 26 buds, it bud builds and can have 7 way branching and 40 buds. Out of LUCKY STREAK by KIRSTEN MADELAINE BURKEY, fertile, and blooms until very late season, with some re-bloom in September. Finally back in stock after several years.
Has proven that it will grow in both good conditions and bad. It got swallowed by our wineberries and bloomed through the canes. It does better with better care!
(Reed, 2019) 36" MLa 5.5" dor., dip., UF cascade
Complicated bloom is a blend of pink, rose, and cream, with stippling. It has lighter ruffled edges and watermark, and is a reverse bitone with darker rose sepals. Green throat. It has good substance, and is fertile both ways. Excellent branching!
4-way branching, budcount 24. Parentage is: (Soapstone Bubbles x Ocean Spirit).
Very early, this is one of the first light pinks to bloom (after BEFORE!). It has clear clean light pink color, and well-branched scapes. It is tall and large-flowered. Pod and pollen fertile.
Parentage: CRYSTALLINE ENTITY X MARGO REED INDEED.
(Murphy, 2017) 44" M 6" dormant, diploid, 3 branches - 27 buds Seedling (Brer Rabbit's Baby x 2009 ACE) x Focus. UF - cascade.
Greyed reddish black with a black band, green throat, and thin lemon midrib on petals. Distinctive blue-green foliage. Very sun tolerant in our climate. On hot days, the plant will be darker and less grey. Some of the best and most carefree blue green foliage that we have in our garden. Fertile and makes great dark kids with blue green dormant foliage.
I have two intros and one future intro from it.
HARD DORMANT BLUE GREEN FOLIAGE that is late freeze resistant.
(Murphy 2013) 57" MLre 7.5" Dor Dip Ext UF Cascade A buff cream base color with red purple band, and yellow and green throat. This quite tall flower has strong scapes and is sunfast at 98F at 7pm in our climate. Very well branched with 5 and up to 28 buds. Out of MONACAN TRAIL by JUST JESSIE. Fertile. Starts in July and blooms into August. Bud Builder. Started July 4th and blooming well on August 14th, 2017. Has been one of our most consistent September and October rebloomers.
Stephen Reed (Reed, 2026) 45" EMRe 6" dormant diploid
Mulberry red with a veined and patterned eye that is a lighter lavender, white eye on sepals with white edges, light
green throat. It is ruffled, with good substance. Pod fertile and a good parent. A strong bud builder! It has 2 branches and starts the season with 10 buds but ends with 22 buds!
Parentage: ((Shenandoah Sunrise x Faulkner seedling) x Wild Chicken) double fans $100,00
Tall, stunning, and distinctive, this diploid appears to have a pink petal base, but it is really cream with tiny red stipples or dots. The eye is large and feathered, ruby red. It has a green throat. It has a garden presence that gets attention. Named after my father, it is out of (CASEY AT THE BAT X FOXY LOXY). Both pollen and pod fertile, it is a strong grower. Limited,
(Murphy- JP, 2023) 46" M 8" Dormant Diploid, UF Cascade
Lemon cream with a jagged red black eye. Light green throat. The scapes are among the sturdiest that I have ever seen on a diploid. A really excellent contrast in colors coupled with a bloom habit that allows blooms to open up and down the scapes. Heavily branched and budded. 4 branches and 27 buds. In 2023, I have a plant with 6 branches. Excellent Parent of Industrial Strength, and several futures.
Named for the former Light House near the current town of Stingray Point on the Chesapeake Bay at the eastern terminus of Route 33. The original name came from colonial times. Captain John Smith was stung by and seriously injured by a Cownose Ray at this location. He was tended to by a Native American healer who used a specific salt mud poultice to help his injury. The area got its name after this occurrence.
Out of (Busy As A x Opal Road). Proven hardy in both Wisconsin and Minnesota, Zones 5a and 4b.
STRETCH is a gorgeous cherry red 5/1 spider with an extremely long bloom season. It blooms 7 or 8 weeks here once established, through bud building. Tall, at 47", with strong scapes, and 2 branches, with 20 buds. It is extremely sunfast for us, and has a yellow green throat, and yellow midrib. Out of BARNEGAT LIGHT by KIRSTEN MADELAINE BURKEY. Exceedingly fertile and makes huge, full pods. Has proven to be not only a good garden plant in the late garden, but an excellent parent as well.
Note in 2018- I kept well over twenty seedlings from STRETCH in 2017, so I think it is a pretty special parent. Guaranteed pods for us, in all conditions. 2020 Excellent.
Very long blooming lemon cream with red/purple eye and light green throat. Bloomed from June 22 until August 1 this year. Petals have a creased midrib of the same color. I can’t say that I have seen one that looks like this before. The blooms mostly face out, looking at you. 6! branches, well spaced, and 40 buds!
Ponder Stibbons by Starfish Prime - Double Fans $100
(Reed, 2024) 34” M 7” dormant diploid
UF Cascade. Cream with dark-veined lavender eye and green throat.
Gently ruffled and recurved, often laying back in a relaxed pose.
Parentage: (The Light Dawns x Opal Road) reblooms!
25" EERE 5" Dormant Diploid This is a triangular, recurved lemon with jagged violet eye, creped texture. Sunfast, fertile, long bloom period, late rebloom, 3 branches, 15 buds, good parent.
NOTE- this is an extremely early bloomer, before Bitsy and Stella here, then one rebloom in September.
May 2025 back in stock. Opens at about 8pm and stays open until about 8pm. Wide open at 49 degrees at 8 am after nights in the low 40s. Also extremely sun resistant.
Murphy, E., '04 - 32" M 7" dor.dip. UF Clear lemon yellow UF cascade, lighter edge. An excellent bloomer and very reliable.
Curly and twirly in good conditions.
2016 (9-355A) Take Four is a true pink with a yellow to dark green throat. A tall, showy, and vigorous grower. Pink is a welcome color addition to the field of polys. 85% polymerous. Junior Citation. Re., EM, 34", 6.5", four-way branching, 16 buds, Dor., Dip., John R. Pike X Mountain Laurel Sundayhaus.
Image credit to Don M Herr.
Don was one of the premier hybridizers of Polytepals. We will add more of his as time allows. Jim
Rose-cream with darker rose ruffles. Bi-tone with darker sepals. Blush rose-purple long eye with sharp narrow white midrib and a slight pattern near the throat. 3 branches, 16 buds. Unusual Form Cascade.
Parentage: (((Sky Over Schuyler x Faulkner seedling) x Best Uncle) x (Opal Road x Ponder Stibbons))
Murphy 2010 41" M 7" SEV Tetraploid Cascade Unusual Form
Thank you to Glenn Pollock for pushing me to introduce this one since its maiden bloom. It has proven to be remarkably visible in the garden, due to the tall scapes, bright orange color and striking, feathered reddish purple eye. It has colors matching Virginia Tech's colors: blasphemy!, here near UVA! 3 branches and 18 buds, that bloom long and slow, for a long season. Sun-fast, out of (ISLE OF DREAMS x TET CORAL CRAB) X FISH FACE. Unique genetics make this great garden plant also a hybridizers tool. Pollen fertile and pod possible.
Cream-parchment with a dark purple eye, fading to near-white and purple eye by the end of the day. It has some purple ruffled edging, and a light lime-green throat. The dark purple eye bleeds out some into the petal color, and the sharp contrast between the dark and light colors is stunning. The form is very graceful and slightly ruffled. It has 3-way branching ("W") with 12 buds.
It is out of (Casey at the Bat x Just Jessie).
The Librarian is a bright pumpkin orange with a red eye, and a green throat blending to yellow, with yellow midribs. It is a ruffled and out-facing bloom. This tall and extra-large bloom is "in your face" and commanding in the garden, especially with its bright color. Named after a wizard in the DiscWorld (of Terry Pratchett), who was turned into an Orangutan and liked it. Orangutan orange. 3 branches, 26 buds, still blooming into August. Pod and pollen fertile. Unusual Form cascade.
(Reed, 2024) 36" LRe 6.5" dormant diploid
UF Cascade. Late! Starts in late July and keeps sending up scapes and reblooms through September until frost in late October. Parchment bloom with intense black-purple feathered eye that reaches more than half way to the end of each segment. The throat is lime green. The bloom gently recurves and is ruffled. Well-branched scapes. Pollen fertile. Parentage: (((Brer Rabbit’s Baby x Cherry Peacock) x Rose F Kennedy) x ((Evil Grin x Indian Giver) x Complicated))
The Long Run (Murphy, 2026) 37” ERe 6” dormant diploid, UF Crispate Cream with reddish-lavender multi-patterned eye, green throat, ruffled
petals. 5 Branches, 23 buds. One of the most reliable patterns that I have seen. Most patterns are not that reliably patterned. Wonderful scapes, long bloom period and rebloom to some extent here. Won an achievement medal this year at the Richmond Va flower show. Excellent, easy parent. Wonderful patterns. Parentage: (((Mad Jackie x Faulkner seedling) x Navajo Pony) ((( Military School x Faulkner seedling) x Starlight Splash)x Best Uncle))
$100 for double fans
Won an Achievement Medal for best seedling- Richmond 2025.
One left as of 4/18/26, plus 2 for August.
(Reed, 2024) 60" M 6" dormant tetraploid
Very tall red tet unusual for its height (can reach 6 feet) with dark blue-green foliage and deep branching. The bloom starts out as an intense red bitone, and on a hot day can fade to lighter red with red veins.The blooms have a green throat and a nice ruffled gold edge. 4 branches and 20 bud count. Pod and pollen fertile. Parentage: (Belief in Vein x Old Friends).
Thief of Time is a very large, ruffled, light cream pink with a large, feathered rose-pink eye and bright green throat.
34" MLa Re 7.5" dormant diploid, Unusual Form-cascade. It has good substance, and blooms at medium height. 3 branches with 20 buds, strong scapes. Comes from pattern genetics, but is not patterned -gorgeous in the garden.
Parentage: (Opal Road x Ponder Stibbons) This is a sibling to Puzzle Pieces!
Thomas Frederick (Murphy, 2026) 42” La 8” dormant diploid, UF Crispate
Cream and Lemon-cream reverse bi-tone with lavender eye, large green throat.
Bud Builder, produces proliferations. 6 branches, 44 buds! Thomas Frederick is named for Marcia Zech’s grandson. This plant starts blooming late, and bud builds until near frost with good conditions. It has big, healthy proliferations. On several scapes this year in a good location, it went from bud counts in the mid forties at bloom time to budcounts in the mid 80s via budbuilding. Sets pods, but not easily. Excellent parent for amply branched and budded lates with eyes.
Under good conditions, the prolifs bloom and have had up to three way branching.
Parentage: (Busy As A x Alice in Londonland)
Limited availability- $200 for double fans.
( Murphy 2014) 38" ML 7" Dormant Diploid Cascade UF
Smooth, light pink color, with distinctive apricot raised ridges on both sides of the light midribs. Very ruffled and curled, sunfast and rain resistant. Lightly fragrant, with 2 branches and 18 buds in spare conditions, more with better culture. Out of MARGO REED INDEED by NORTH WIND DANCER. Pollen fertile only. Long bloom period, with most bloom in July, and early August. RELIABLE September and October rebloom here.
My long awaited first intro from BRILLIANT IDEA by KIRSTEN MADELAINE BURKEY is not to be missed in the garden. It starts blooming here about July 1st and bud builds until September 1st . Unlike many red spiders, it is wide open on cool mornings at dawn and blooms until after dark. It has a red eye, green throat, lemon midrib, 5/1 spider ratio, and excellent foliage. Fertile, and an excellent parent. Both Margo and I have introductions from this fine parent.
Parent of 2024's Woodhenge Vampire.
Murphy 2011 39" MLRe 6" dormant diploid cascade unusual form
A sunfast lavender and raspberry with lemon cream throat and a ruffled cream edge. I went back and forth with whether it is raspberry or lavender and finally decided it is both. Registered with 3 branches and 18 buds, but more under good conditions, it also reliably re-blooms for us in September. Pollen Fertile, Pod Possible, out of MARGO REED INDEED by NORTH WIND DANCER.
Bloomed this year from about July 4 until August 15.
(Murphy, 2018) 45" EM 8" dormant, diploid, Unusual Form crispate.
Black-red variable crispate with huge cream to green throat and cream midribs. Excellent presence in the garden, with outfacing, sun resistant dark blooms. Very long blooming, fertile both ways. 3 branches, 15 buds. Parentage: (Buzzer Beater x Green Throated Robin).
Big and tall foliage that is BLUE GREEN and late freeze resistant.
Good grower. Vigorous.
(Reed, 2021) 48” M 8” dormant diploid, Unusual Form cascade
Large and open form, this is a ruffled cascade in a very clear medium rose-pink with rose band and large green throat. 3-way branching, bud count 14.
Parentage: (Appalachian Trail x Earth Jewels)
Quite tall, like pink turtles blooming on the top of 4-way deeply branched scapes (24 buds). Out of LOLA BRANHAM, this one blooms late and long. The blooms are not large, but recurved pink blend shells with darker pink stippling above a green throat. Its garden name was "Pink Towers". Fertile both ways. I am using it to bring pink colors into the tall cultivars. It was registered when I knew it would be an introduction, but it didn't get lined out for introduction until this year, because it blooms so late in the season. It has been a good parent.
Cream throat with a large, feathered eye of purple and light purple, lime green throat,
ruffled blooms. It has 2 branches and 20 buds. Named after a family member who has
been painting for many years - looks like the eye is painted on.
Parentage: (((Flight of Orchids x Pattern Maker) x Almira Buffalo Bone Jackson) x
Wild Chicken) double fan $100.00
(Murphy 2013) 32" M 7" Dor Dip Ext UF Cascade Introduced because of excellent plant habit, pure red color, and extremely green throat. The green throat dominates the bloom, fading to chartreuse near the edges, then melding into clear, bright red. Sunfast to about 95 here, with 2 branches and 20 buds. Highly fertile both ways, blooming for about 4 to 5 weeks here. Fast growing. Out of ROSE F KENNEDY by a Snooks Harville Seedling with excellent color.
2018- With our ample rain this year, Uncle Sam really performed well, blooming for a long time with perfect blooms. We had plenty of increase after being sold out. I dropped the price! Several hybridizers have shown me excellent images of their kids from it. 2020- Excellent performance this year after lining out last year.
Sibling of Devils Marbleyard, and grows much faster. It is similar in look to DM, but blooms longer.
