Reed, 2005 - 30" M 4" dor.dip. Spider. Red self, green throat. Small spidery red cute in the garden on branched scapes. Fertile, and a great parent for those little spidery guys...
ALICE is a pale lemon cream with a large purple eye and very green throat. The form is Unusual Form cascade with lots of ruffles. Well-branched and 15 buds. It is named after my first grand-daughter, born in London on a Christmas Eve. (Monocacy Summer Mist x Cherry Peacock). Fertile both ways, in short supply.
Deep grape purple curling cascade. Green throat and light midribs. Very curling and ruffled, this is a Cascade uf but also measures as a true spider. Pod and pollen fertile. Sunfast, delicate scapes. (Planet Max x Brer Rabbits Baby).
Striking for it's curling and size.
Tall stunning pure red with a slightly darker red band and large green throat. Blooms are ruffled and have lighter midribs. 4-way branching, bud count 26. Heavy bloom through July.
Light golden-yellow/cream with a feathered raspberry-red eye and olive green throat. The bloom is large (8") and has heavy substance; it is an Unusual Form-Cascade.
40" EM 8" dormant diploid. 2 branches and 14 buds but gives a stunning display in the garden. Pollen fertile but pod difficult.
Outrageously wacky, but really gorgeous! Named in memory of a friend’s dog, this one makes the standard for "exotic" and unusual! Tall branched scapes hold the very large blooms. The color is butter yellow with a large rose-blush band and a lime green throat. The form is ruffled, with the sepals tightly curled in corkscrews or spirals, and the long petals "hanging out" here and there, usually in a graceful cascade. Variable forms add to its charm.
Pollen fertile, pod difficult. Only one available for 2016
Parentage: (Crystalline Entity x Nathan Sommers) x (Scarletts Web x North Wind Dancer)
(Reed, 2019) 50" EM 6" dormant, diploid, UF cascade
Cream base with long, feathered, raspberry eye with silver ribs and multi-ring pattern; ruffled petals, green throat. It is tall and has deep 4-way branching with 22 buds, and is fertile both ways. Parentage lost (garden name "Best Unk Pattern" led to name). Great parent for patterns. Very limited stock.
BLOOD PRESSURE (Reed, 2024) 45" MLa 8" dormant diploid,
UF Crispate. Mulberry red with a slight dark purple-red band and a green throat.
Petals pinched and ruffled, sometimes quilled. Extra-large blooms with well-branched scapes. 5 branches and 28 buds. Parentage: (Ponder Stibbons x (Flight of Orchids x unknown ruffled seedling).
Cherry red purple with green throat, watermark, and tiny white ruffled edge. Unusual Form cascade/crispate with good branching and bud count (4 branches and 26 buds) and moderate height. Bloomed through July. Fertile both ways. It is
blood red and I read too many British detective novels.
Parentage: (Garden Fairy x Metzger’s Purple Storm)
Large light gold ruffled bloom with large feathered purple eye, green throat.
Good substance and strong scapes. Makes a long-blooming clump.
Parentage: (((Trance x (Casey at the Bat x Foxy Loxy) x ((Cabernet Cabaret x
Cherry Peacock) x (Military School x Faulkner seedling)))
Reed, 1999 - 36" M 6" dor.dip. Spider. Brown with black eye and gold throat HM
This is a classic over performer. It does well in most any situation, a little shady, or poor soil, or out of range of the hose.
Reed, 2007 - 48" M 7" dor. Dip. Elegant dark black red, well branched
Tall, dark, and well-branched, this cultivar out of Chief Black Hand and Planet Max carries on their grand tradition. The blooms are large and dark wine-red toward black. The scapes are erect and nicely branched, with a good bud count. It won best seedling in the NCDC show in 2006 (Washington DC area). The blooms are elegant and narrow, with gentle ruffling. Yellow to green throat, sunproof, fertile.
(Reed, 2021) 55" MLa 6.5" Dormant Diploid, Unusual Form cascade
Tall, deeply ruffled, narrow curling cascade; light purple with large dark purple eye extending out on the petals more than half their length, making a narrow line on the sepals, and with a big green throat. It has 3-way branching, bud count 12. Pod and Pollen fertile.
Parentage: (The Cow Jumped Over the Moon x Scandinavia).
Reed, 2005 - 42" M 7" dor.dip. Pale gold with dark wine-red eye, yellow throat
Named after my favorite daughter, the softball player, this daylily has a black eye! The bloom is very ruffled and has a narrow, exotic form. The dark wine-red/black eye is in high contrast to the pale gold/parchment background color. There is the slight beginning of a picotee edge in the dark color. This daylily presents many different faces, but it is always very showy in the garden. Fertile both ways and often reblooms.
Soft warm peach pink with a light green throat and a bold rose eye (faint on the sepals). It has light pink midribs and gentle ruffles. While the branching and bud count is modest, it comes into heavy bloom in the mid-late to late season and puts on a nice display. Unusual Form Cascade. Named after my favorite daughter-in-law.
Reed, 2005 - 45" Mla 7" dor.dip.Dark red purple self, great substance and form, well branched. Excellent garden plant, always showy and reliable, excellent scapes.
Reed, 2008 - 36" EM 6.5" dor. Dip. Soft pink with creamy ruffled edges, 4-way branching
Soft pink, with a cream throat and midribs, and creamy ruffled edges. Out of Loch Ness Monster, the ruffles are on all segments, and the bloom is gently recurved and narrow. The garden name has been Pink LNM. With wide 4-way branching and 18-20 buds, it displays the blooms nicely. It is named after my mother, who was the first person I knew to grow daylilies. If only hers in the 1950's had been this pretty! She would love it. Fertile.
(Reed, 2021) 35” Mla 6” dormant, diploid, Unusual Form cascade
Richest, purest deep rose with apple green throat extending out into white with white midribs edged with light rose. Very ruffled. 3-way branching, bud count 20. Slow increaser but makes lots of proliferations. Pod and pollen fertile. Parentage: ((Margo Reed Indeed x North Wind Dancer) x (Peacock Curls x Cherry Peacock))
Cherry red with a green throat. 38" EM Re 7" dormant diploid, Unusual Form-cascade.
Out of two parents that are garden favorites, this is a bright, curling, recurved bloom has ruffles and is nicely branched and budded. It has also rebloomed heavily for us.
3 branches and 24 buds. Pod and pollen fertile.
45" M 7.25" dormant diploid. Rose pink with a darker rose-red band, green throat. This has tall, deeply-branched scapes with 3 way branching and 26 buds. Nice presentation of the blooms. Pollen fertile, pods difficult but possible. A garden favorite for years!
Soft peach cream ruffled blooms sit atop well-branched scapes, with blush-rose eyes and light green throats. The blooms tend to be upfacing, and look like a cloud could land there comfortably! The only downside is that the foliage is a light green color. Pod and pollen fertile.
Parentage: CRYSTALLINE ENTITY X MARGO REED INDEED.
This dark blood-red purple with large light green blending out to white throat, and raspberry midribs, is a slightly ruffled Unusual Form cascade. This dramatic, late, dark bloom with elegant twisting and curling form is presented on a scape with 3 branches and 18 buds. Fairly sunfast and fertile both ways. Bloomed into August.
(Reed, 2020) 48" M 6.5" dormant, diploid; 3 branches, 18 buds;
UF – Cascade. Parentage: (Unknown x Unknown).
Tall, curly, and strikingly raspberry red! The velvety, rich red blooms curl and recurve, and are held on strong, nicely-branched scapes. The blooms have a green throat, shading to white, and white midribs; gracefully ruffled. Pod and pollen fertile. A favorite here.
Truly standing above the crowd, Dances with Giraffes is at least 5 feet tall when established. The large blooms cascade and curl down from the tall scapes, golden yellow with a rose-peach blush eye above a green throat. It is registered as an unusual form/cascade. Difficult to set a pod, but the pollen is good. This makes a statement in the garden!
Multiple award winner!
This one has narrow white, ruffled blooms like snowflakes on tall scapes. Slightly pink cast in the morning gives way to white on the blooms. Not famous for its branching, it has an adequate bud count of 12. The bloom is an open, spokes-of-a-wheel or star form. Unusual Form spatulate. Out of Secretary Sand x North Wind Dancer. Pod and pollen fertile.
(Reed, 2017) 50" M 10", dormant, diploid, 3 branches - 18 buds (Skydiving x Cherry Peacock). UF - cascade. Light lemon-cream/near white with a highly contrasting eye of dark purple; it has cream midribs and a light green throat.
Tall and thin, this bloom is pale with a dark-blood eye to haunt you. The bloom, not the scape, can be a little floppy after a big thunderstorm or overhead watering. But on a quiet morning it is stunning and huge.
Large, round symmetrical blooms are light purple with a dark purple band on the petals, large lime-green throat blending to light yellow-green, blooms are ruffled and heavily recurved. Tall with great deep branching (4-way) with bud count around 24. Still blooming at the end of July.
Parentage: ((Garden Fairy x Metzger’s Purple Storm) x (Dream Sequence x Shenandoah Sunrise))- $100 double fan
(Reed, 2018) 38" M 6" dormant, diploid, Unusual Form-cascade.
Dark Hollow is a dramatic, brooding kid from Flight of Orchids. It is a recurved, dark raspberry bloom with a huge dark mulberry-wine band feathering onto the petals. It has "eyelash" lines extending into the green throat from the eyezone, and cream midribs. It is ruffled, and has nice 3-way branching (21 buds). Grows well and sometimes reblooms. Pollen and pod fertile.
Parentage: (seedling x Flight of Orchids)
(Reed, 2021) 45" M 7.5" dormant diploid, Unusual Form crispate
Large soft peach-yellow blend with a big green throat extending out on the bloom, and heavy substance. UF crispate form, with quilled sepals and very ruffled petals. 2-way branching, bud count 10. Pollen Fertile.
Parentage: (Allison Sommers x Just Jessie).
Clear butter yellow with large feathered wine-red eye on petals, small "v" wine-red on sepals. Greenish yellow throat blending to yellow and yellow midribs. Usually symmetrically recurved. Still blooming end of July. 3-way branching, 20 buds.
(Reed, 2015)
46" MRe 6.5" dormant, diploid 3 branches, 20 buds Unusual Form – Cascade
(Catapult Sam x Cherry Peacock)
Dark red cascade with black-red eye extending out onto the petals; large green throat merging into the eye. Classy and sultry. Pollen and pod fertile. Still in bloom in early August.
Reed 2011 38" M 8" dormant diploid. Light rose pink
With a "lipstick" rose-red band and lime green throat. There is a barely-discernible watermark on the sepals, which may be important for pattern breeding. Out of (Crystalline Entity x Nathan Sommers).
Fertile both ways. We have found this to be a truly excellent parent of both pastels with bright eyes and patterns.
Reed, 2003 - 32" M 6" dor.dip. Purple spidery with black-purple velvety eye, green throat. The latest and showiest in the Eggplant series. Jim's favorite.
This is a very "fetching" ruffled salmony-rose pink with a slight watermark, and lighter colors on the edges and ruffles; green throat and cream midribs. 3 branches, 18 bud count. Unusual form cascade. A great bright color in the mid-late to late garden, it is still blooming into August.
Parentage: (Peacock Curls x Heavenly Curls) x (Fossil Record x Foxy Loxy)
Reed, 2005 - 40" M 6" dor.dip. UF Lavender with purple eye, green throat
One of my favorites! This unusual form (crispate) features both the rolled sepals and the patterned, dark purple feathered eye on ruffled petals. This is the best of a number of seedlings out of a Jack Carpenter seedling. The blooms have good substance, and the plants make large fans. Fertile both ways. A scape of this cultivar won best unusual form in the Richmond (RADS) flower show in 2005, until it was disqualified for being registered the same year.
This daylily has multiple time zones appearing in the throat. The bloom is a heavily ruffled, muted orchid-lavender purple with a green throat. The eyezone usually shows a pattern with various amounts of multi-colored rings, reflecting its parentage from a Bob Faulkner seedling. It is about 20% polymerous. It has 3 branches and 14 buds. Pod and pollen fertile. Out of Sky Over Schuyler x seedling.
Cream yellow with huge purple-black eye feathered out onto petals (eye splits on light midrib) green throat. Up-facing ruffled blooms. Excellent branching (4-way) with 18-20 buds. Still blooming at the end of July, tall and showy.
Parentage: (Pig Latin x Wild Chicken) - $100 double fan
FOGGY BOTTOM (Reed, 2016) 56” M 6” dormant, diploid, 3 branches 24 buds, UF cascade
Foggy Bottom is one of the oldest neighborhoods in DC, a mysterious low area near the Potomac River, where the State Department resides (who knows what goes on there). The daylily is a secretive purple, with a light green to white throat radiating out onto the petals and tepals until it merges into the grape color midway. The blooms are on tall, nicely branched scapes, and recurve to display the blending of fog and darkness. It is from a cross of PURPLE ARCHITECTURE x JUST JESSIE. Pod and pollen fertile.
(Reed, 2018) 46" EM 6.5" dormant, diploid, Unusual Form.
Garden Fairy is a dark rose pink with lighter pink ruffled edges, and has a watermark and green throat. It is a narrow form, cascading and pinching. This is the seedling known as "Reedling 22" which was seen at the AHS National Convention in 2017 at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens Region 3 Hybridizers’ Bed. It won best seedling. It has excellent 4-way branching and a bud count of 30. It often presents multiple blooms open per scape. Pollen and pod fertile, it is a good breeder.
The parentage is (purple seedling x (Scarlett’s Web x North Wind Dancer)). A favorite here.
Has just won an Honorable Mention (HM) , hopefully the first of many awards!
Large parchment/cream with intensely contrasting dark purple feathered eye. Lime green to lemon yellow throat, very ruffled edges. Still blooming at the end of July. Very tall and showy. 2-3 way branching, 12 buds. Named for a favorite son-in-law.
Parentage unknown. - $100 double fan
(Reed, 2013) 38" MLa 8" dormant, diploid. Unusual form cascade.
Named for one of my favorite wild areas, this one is as strange and spooky as the name implies. The color is an elusive grayed lavender blend with a green throat. The bloom cascades in graceful curls, and throws polys often enough to be fun but I’m not committing to a percentage. It has 3 branches and 14 buds, and is pollen and pod fertile. Parentage unknown. Blooming heavily in August in 2016.
(Reed, 2015)
46" EMRe 6" dormant, diploid 3 branches, 24 buds Unusual Form - Cascade
(Unknown x Unknown)
Bright, intense cherry rose with a large star-shaped yellow green throat; the form is an exotic curling cascade. Re-blooming in early August.
(Reed, 2007) 36" M 6.5" dormant diploid Unusual Form-Cascade
I was so excited when this bloomed that I registered it immediately. I was sure it would be an introduction. After a couple of years of letting it multiply, it is ready! The bloom is a pale-lavender, almost translucent, white. The throat is cream. It presents as a very curly cascade, on 4- and 5-way branched scapes. I have seen as many as 6 blooms open on one scape. It is different from so many flat whites, in that it looks carved out of ice. Pod and pollen fertile. One of my best. Just a few available.
(Reed, 2019) 45" M 10" dor., dip., UF cascade
Amazing ivory-cream (near white) self with green throat. Extreme narrow form with heavy substance and ruffles on all segments. Fertile both ways. Parentage: ((Secretarys Sand x North Wind Dancer) x Ned’s Choice.) Weeping form with "spooky fingers" presentation.
