(Murphy, 2019) 48" VLa 7" dormant diploid, UF – cascade
A tall black, red, and purple blend with cream midribs and ruffled edge. Sunfast to 95 here and blooms over 2 months. Starts very late and blooms until late September here. 4 branches and 26 buds in good culture. Parentage: (Late Report x Under The Wire). Sinfully fertile and most kids are sunfast and very late.
Heavy bloomer in the late daylily garden.
Vanilla Ice Cream (Murphy 2019) 6" LRe 28" Dormant Diploid
Cream with a good green throat. Ruffled edges. Starts out cream, bleaches to near white on hot days. Very fertile and one of the best parents for white that I have used. Two instant re-blooms here under good conditions. It is out of (Running Late x Jims Evil Grin). Sunfast. 3 branches , 15 buds. Starts Late and blooms into September here. There are only a few plants here that bloom this late into the season.
2023- was still blooming on original scapes when frost ended the season.
Vigorous and long lasting bloom period.
This bud builder starts in mid-season and blooms on into August with large light gold flowers with a wine purple eye that is long (extended) and feathered. It has a deep green throat and gold midribs. It is an Unusual Form cascade, ruffled and
with good substance. It has 2 branches and 26 buds. Fertile both ways. The blooms are presented outwards. This year it reached 50" in height but is usually not that tall.
Parentage: (Trance x Opal Road) sibling to Apple Orchard Sunrise.
(Reed, 2017) 55" La 5.75", dormant, diploid, 3 branches - 24 buds (Tree Turtles x Planet Max) UF - cascade.
Ruffled rose-lavender with a large green-to-cream throat ending in a slight watermark.
In the late garden, a tall clump of Vintage Virginia makes a real statement. Opening slowly, it looks a little old-fashioned in the morning, but opens to a wide bloom later in the day.
(Reed, 2019) 34" MLa 6" dor., dip., UF cascade
Light flamingo pink with several colors of rose pink and rose in the eye; the eye bleeds out to the end of all segments. Lighter pink ruffled edges and green throat. Great scapes with 4-way branching and moderate height. 28 buds. Fertile both ways. Parentage: (Metzger’s Purple Storm x (Peacock Curls x Heavenly Curls)). A garden favorite, named after our grandson, Walter!
Intense watermelon red with a deep green throat. Tiny white midrib, tight ruffling. The bright blooms are held on 5-way branching, like tree trunks, often with multiple blooms open per scape at once. Bud count about 26. Puts on a great heavy bloom show in late July. Old-fashioned look but incredible performance.
Parentage: (By the Riverside x Walter’s Elf) - $100 double fan
(Reed, 09) 36" M 7" dor.dip.ext. Unusual form cascade.
This very white bloom is consistent and high-performing. It has the strength from RADIANT MOONBEAM, and the grace and narrowness from SKINWALKER. It is 3-way branched, with about 22 buds. The bloom has good substance and is slightly ruffled. Easily pod and pollen fertile. Delicious.
(Murphy-JP, 2023) 53" ML 6.5" Dormant Diploid, UF Cascade
Lemon cream in the mornings fading to cream as the day progresses. Very large green throat extending way out on the petals, bisected by white midribs. Ruffled edge. With good culture, the blooms curl and twirl. Sunfast, fertile, excellent parent. 3 branches and 20 buds in good conditions.
Out of (Green Tea x Diamond Jim)
(Murphy, 2020) 26" E 5.5" dormant, diploid; 3 branches, 15 buds; Patterned;
Parentage: (Unknown x Unknown)
Creamy lemon with etched and lightly patterned reddish-lavender eye. Striking form and colors in the early daylily garden. Fertile both ways, with a future introduction from it.
Kropf+, '01 - 36" Mla 3" dor.dip. Proliferations occur in great numbers on top of scapes, like a wig!
In the very late season garden, this plant is covered in green proliferations, making it look like nothing you have seen in the daylily world. Very valuable as a conversation piece. Easily grown. If you grow it, you will notice it. Distinction.
WOODHENGE CHEER (Murphy, 2025) Fall
44" Early Midseason 6" dormant diploid, 5 branches, 34 buds
Lemon Unusual Form Crispate/Cascade with patterned reddish purple, lavender and white eyezone. Light green and yellow throat. Very strong scapes, and a strong bud builder. Good parent, easily fertile both ways. Quite sunfast here. Pattern holds up well in hot weather.
Parentage: (Wicked Good by Opal Road) Double Fan $100
This is a seed selection of Cleome hasselariana. Over 25 years, we have selected the most vigorous, branched, hardy, sunfast, and cleome beetle resistant Lavenders, Purples, and Violets. Colors do not come true in this selection, but about 80% of the seedlings will be of the above colors. 20% Pink and Rose. No reds or whites.
What does come true from seed are very tall, wide, branched, and vigorous plants that will reseed in your garden for years. Requires full sun to part shade. Period! ( but water helps!)
A packet of at least 50 seeds is $8, plus $2 for shipping.
Plant in spring or fall, very shallow, in moist, well drained soil. In our garden, volunteers come up and we just remove what we don't want. Comes up just fine when using pre emergent herbicides too, if you do use them.
Jim
WOODHENGE NATURAL (Murphy, 2016) Fall
42” M 7.5” Dormant, Diploid, Extended UF-Crispate
Out of Negative Image by a vigorous patterned seedling.
An unusual patterned combination of colors- Red and rose dotted bitone with a darker red band, tan to cream edge, cream midribs, and yellow green throat. The dark red color and the edges fade during the hot days making the combination and pattern even more striking. Sunfast to the mid 90’s here. 3 branches, 23 buds, fertile both ways. Almost all of the kids have this type of patterning. An improvement on its very good parent, Negative Image, because it is quite vigorous.
Triple fans or larger. $20
Dark red-purple Unusual Form Crispate and Cascade with very large green throat and white to pink midribs. Twists and curls, with ruffles. 4 branches, 24 buds, attention getting!
We are regularly seeing 5-6 way wide branching on this one now. Jim
Out of (Devils Marbleyard x Ego). Excellent parent, fertile both ways.
Multiple future introductions from this one.
26”Tall, Early with reliable rebloom here, 5.5” Dormant Diploid.
Lavender purple with a hint of brown most days, reddish purple sometimes. Patterned with cream, purple, and charcoal eye, and unique light cream very short midribs. It is also a short for me plant at 26”, so Short Ribs was appropriate. Rebloom here is quite good, and it blooms long and slow so it has a very long season of bloom. Ruffled and veined, tiny green throat. Three branches and 15 buds.
(Murphy, 2024) 32" MLaRe 7.5" dormant diploid
3 branches, 17 buds. UF Spider form. Parentage: (Cardinal Summer x TNT)
Red spider cascade with darker shade on tepals and light green throat. Shocking red color, that is quite sunfast. There are not many spider cascades registered. Fertile, with sunfast kids.
Woodhenge Wonderful (Reed, 2025) Fall
36” Mid-Season 7” dormant diploid, Unusual Form, Cascade
Bright and cheerful rose pink with an intense rose-red eye and green throat.
2 branches, 16 buds. Always a beacon in the garden for color.
Parentage: (((Sumerduck x Nathan Sommers) x (Casey at the Bat x Foxy Loxy)) x
Opal Road) Double fan $100.00
Murphy, '05 - 51" La 5.75" dor.dip. Gold, piercing red eye, lavender midribs, orange throat with green heart.
Gold blooms with striking red eye, unique lavender red midribs, and orange throat with green heart. An awesome color contrast, on tall scapes with decent branching and a budcount of 20, makes this one stand out. Fragrant, out of a Benzinger seedling by NUCLEAR MELTDOWN. Sibling to BARNEGAT LIGHT and this year's COROLLA LIGHT.
This is the only plant that I have seen with Lavender/red midribs.
(Reed, 2013) 28" La 6" dormant, diploid, fragrant! Unusual form crispate.
To add calm beauty to the late season garden, this one has it all! Early in the morning it is trumpet shaped, looking like an Easter Lily, with purple stripes on the reverse of the sepals. Later in the morning it opens flat, with a soft cream-white face. It is a reverse bitone, with lavender on the sepals. Edged and stippled in lavender. It has sturdy scapes with four-way branching, and a bud count of 22. It makes a neat mound of blooms for a long time in late July and August. Bloomed until August 31 in 2012. Out of Lola Branham. Pod and pollen fertile.
(Murphy, 2010) 48" M 9" semi-evergreen, diploid, extended, spider.
This gorgeous, sun-fast, tall purple spider has a lemon throat and cream midribs. It has very stiff and strong scapes, 3 branches and 22 buds. It is out of GREY WITCH X BLACK ICE. Pollen fertile.
Sibling to Freaky People. It has a different color contrast and is taller.
