Solaris Farms™ 2008
 Daylilies, Peonies, Lilium & Other Fine Ornamentals

Solaris Farms Daylily Introductions for 2004

Cheddar Weasel.  2004.  (Cheese Weasel x Diane Bremer)  18" height, 3" flowers, 20 buds, 3 branches, dormant, diploid, mid season.  Like a well aged cheddar cheese, this little guy will keep you coming back for more.  Cheddar Weasel isn't a flower that grabs you, but it does perform well and looks great in a clump (not all daylilies do you know).  Flowers are a weathered gold-orange with a wonderful maroon eye.  A great deal of maroon veining is present in the petals and the flowers are perfectly round and ruffled nicely.  Great performer!  Fertile both ways.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.
Cheese Weasel.  2004. (Granny's Choice x Brookwood Ojo Poco)  17" height, 3" flowers, 18 buds, 3 branches, dormant, diploid, mid season.  Named for a dog or a boy at Solaris.  Cheese Weasel is a small plant and a small flower that works it's way into your head and heart.  Flowers are 'Cheesy' yellow with a wonderful maroon red eye bisected at the mid ribs.  It is a wide open flat little flower and shows up in the garden very well.  Great increaser and excellent plant habits.  Fertile both ways.
Please see catalog for up to date pricing.
*Arguing With Emma. 2004. ((Chance Encounter x Wineberry Candy)(Grungy x Strutter's Ball))  24" height, 5.75 flowers, 18 to 24 buds, 3 to 4 branches,  semi-evergreen (very hardy), tetraploid, mid season.  My daughter, Emma, argued about this plant with me throughout bloom season.  I have a tendency to quickly judge seedling flowers during their first couple of years and this one just didn't have the flash in my eyes.  Well, after she persuaded me to mark it, I became more aware that it was so consistent and that it's beauty was in it's consistent performance.  So, Arguing With Emma gets introduced as a pink-mauve flower with a yellow watermark.  Maybe that is unique!?  The flowers aren't flashy, but if you take the time to look at it each day you'll have no arguments either.  Great in a clump.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.
Quiet My Heart.  2004. (Janice Brown (Dragon's Eye x seedling))  23" height, 4" flowers, 18+ buds, 4 branches, dormant, diploid, mid season.  Picture is accurate.  Quiet My Heart is a wonderfully ruffled cream with a gorgeous red eye.  The eye is bisected at the mid ribs and supplies an artistic symmetry to the flower.  A red picottee follows the petal about half way around.  Excellent substance and deals with hot sun very well.  Good increaser.  Fertile both ways.  
Please see catalog for up to date pricing.
Standing By The Light.  2004.  (Cosmic Questions (Electric x Barbara Mitchell))  22" height, 6.25" flowers, 16+ buds, 3 branches, dormant, diploid, mid season.  Standing By the Light is voluptuous creamy yellow with large rolling ruffles and cream mid-ribs.  The flowers often bloom larger than the number listed above.  This cultivar is fairly short, but is an attractor due to it's size and elegance.  Much admired by garden visitors last year.  Plants are solid growers and have excellent foliage for most of the summer.  Fertile both ways.   Please see catalog for up to date pricing.

Peas and Thank You.  2004. (Brookwood Wow x Siloam Grace Stamile) 23" height, 3" flowers, 18 to 24 buds, 3 branches (one large lateral), dormant, diploid, mid season.  Named for it's rounded pea-like buds that give rise to leathery substanced flowers of the roundest  shape, Peas and Thank You is a real winner.  The plants are small, but make nice fat fans.  A slow grower, Peas and Thank You takes three years to make a smallish clump, but as a clump it is outstanding.  The flowers are are a pinkish red (not quite as intense a the picture) with a wonderful green eye.  Often, more than one flower is open per scape and the presentation is always good.  The plants have some of the finest looking buds I've seen on any daylily (you'll want to eat it before it flowers).   Great small flower for the collector.   Fertile both ways, difficult as a pod parent.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.

Old Sol.  2004. (#Rec1 x #Rec2)  23" height, 5" flowers, 17 to 24 buds, 3 branches, dormant, tetraploid, mid-late  season.  Like a soft slow sunset, Old Sol has very comforting polychrome flowers reminiscent of Brother Charles Reckamp's  wonderful hybrids.  Old Sol presents it's very heavy substanced flowers facing upwards, just above the wonderful blue-green foliage.  A clear yellow has hints of pink throughout and the midribs have a deeper infusion of pink.  The plant increases slowly (not surprising, since it is at least F5 line bred).  Old Sol's offspring have heavy substance and will take on other colors with grace.  I'd like the plant to have a better bud count and branching (mostly top branched), but it is consistent and seldom shows the stresses that climate and insects inflict upon fancy edged daylilies.  And yes it has a wonderfully intricate edge of yellow gold that is quite different and showy.  Fertile both ways.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.