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

Solaris Farms Daylily Introductions for 2005

 		*Cruising For A Bruising.  2005.  Bremer (Wineberry Candy x Ruby Sentinel).  Tetraploid.  26" height, 6" flowers.  3 branches & average of 18 buds.  Mid season.  Dormant.  Cruising For A Bruising is a wonderful daylily that presents it flowers facing up and looks outstanding in a clump.  The wide blue-green foliage is dormant and plants are tough.  As the name would indicate, Cruising For A Bruising has an eyezone that looks like a bruise.  The image is unable to show the shining violet midrib that gives the flower an unusual appearance.  The gorgeous lavender-violet flowers are not the modern day wide petaled form, but still create  wonderfully rounded flowers that open well in all conditions.  Not really a brute, but a beauty!  Creates wonderful clear colored seedlings of vibrant colors.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.
*Windy Place.  2005.  Bremer (Real Wnd x Ruby Sentinel).  Tetraploid.    36" height, 6" flowers. 4 branches & 15 to 25 buds (average of 19).  Late season.  Dormant.  Windy Place was named for its location in our garden-a windy place.  Plants are very large and make handsome foliage that has a semi-gloss sheen on long leaves.  Scapes do not show up until  most of the other plants have begun blooming and flowers begin to open when few other cultivars are in bloom.  Scapes are tall and sturdy with excellent branching.  They all stand up to wind very well as do the flowers.  Flowers are an unusual light coral-orange-pink blend with a red eyezone bisected by a cream midrib. The image is generally darker than the flower appear most days.  In cool weather flowers fade toward the edges.  Tall robust show off.  Slow increaser.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.
*Iron In The Fire.  2005. Bremer  (Real Wind x Ruby Sentinel). Tetraploid.  28" height, 5.5" flowers. 3 branches & 17 to 22 buds.  Mid-late season.  Dormant.  We began selling this as 'Fire In The Hole'  this past season and sold everything available-it's a zapper.  Unfortunately, the name did not stick due  to registration problems.  Flowers are a true orange with a bright red eyezone and green throat.  Like its sib, Windy Place, it has a somewhat triangular flower carried well above the foliage.  Plants are not as big as Windy Place, but possess the same beautiful foliage.  We grew well over a 50 seedlings from this cross and Windy Place and Fire In The Hole were winners, but many others had wonderful eyes and vibrant colors.  If you'd like to try a cross that gets oodles of great garden flowers with varying eyezones try crossing Real Wind with Ruby Sentinel.  Iron In The Fire is already producing some excellent eyed seedlings!  Moderate to slow increaser and takes a year in the ground to get up and running.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.


*Fujita Scale.  2005. Bremer (Love's Call x Paradise Lost).  Tetraploid.  26" height, 5.25" flowers.  3 branches & 16 buds.  Mid season. Semi-evergreen.  Like the varying intensities of a tornado, Fujita scale will have a different color each day.  Which flower is a F4 on the scale?  Some days it is a dark black red, others a purple feathered in silver and still others it is brown with a  black purple eye. This is my wife Kim's favorite flower, l think it mirrors her many moods (I won't incriminate myself further).  In any event, each variation is beautiful and all will have that wild green throat.  Flowers open well in all conditions.  It's pod parent, Love's Call, has been one of our best parents for purples and reds that open well and hold up relatively well in the sun.  You'll see many more Love's Call registrations in the future from Solaris and others.  Plants are very hardy, but may produce more flowers further south.  Fujita Scale is only a moderate increaser.  Great plant and flower.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.


*Love That Lipstick.  2005.  Bremer (Strawberr y Candy x (Ed Brown x unknown). 32" height,  4.75" flowers.  4 branches & 18 buds. Mid season.  Semi-evergreen.  Love That Lipstick reminds me of a little girl that has gotten into her mother's make-up drawer and smeared lipstick beyond her lips and onto her face.  I suspect if you've been around kids,  this is a familiar memory.  Flowers are round with a wonderful hot red-pink eye on pink-salmon petals and sepals.  The petals are veined lightly with the same color as the eye and a the petal edges have an orange-pink band with a thin gold thread.  Extremely attractive, but not gaudy or garish.  The buds are also attractive in that they are shiny and a wonderful shade of strawberry pink many days before opening.  Plants have blue-green foliage that have  a nice shine and are very disease resistant (stay clean looking).  Good increaser, but not so fast that it is a bother.   Nothing better than getting into mother nature's bag of make-up.  I especially like this plant because it often blooms in bouquets and flowers are well away from the foliage.  Easily fertile both ways.
Please see catalog for up to date pricing.


 		 *Scratch My Itch.  2005. Bremer (Techny Spider x Christmas Ribbon). Tetraploid.  24" height, 9.5" flowers.  3 top branches & 16 buds.  Mid season.  Dormant.  This flower is way cool!  More  tamely, Scratch My Itch is a huge flower with a great deal of potential for the hybridizer and will satisfy the daylily enthusiasts need for a shorter unusual form.  Color is a coral-orange with a feather red eyezone.  Veins originating from the eyezone carry the eyezone color with them further out onto the petals.  Petals pinch and on some days sepals will curl or cascade.  As UF's go the flower is fairly consistent in its presentation.  Plants are good increasers, but branching and bud count is lower than I'd like.  The cross was an unlikely one, since both parents are not easily fertile in my opinion.  It was used extensively in hybridizing the last 2 years and I'm itching to hybridize with it this winter in the basement growing room.  It is very fertile either way and makes good pods.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.

*Eat My Dust.  2005.  Bremer (Love's Call x Better Than Ever)Tetraploid. 32" height, 6" flowers. 4 branches & 18 buds. Mid season.  Semi-evergreen.  Eat My Dust is one of those reds that grabs you with the color clarity and wonderful ruffling.  The color of the image is a bit brighter than in the garden, but it does rival this on hot steamy days.  EMD opens well in cool weather and the edges of it's segments fade to white in these conditions.  In all weather conditions it posses an easily visible white edge and a gold wire edge.  Eat My Dust has been a personal favorite the past couple of seasons.  Once again I'd like greater bud counts, but suspect it may have more  if grown further south.  Very hardy in Wisconsin.  Good increaser and easily fertile both ways.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.
Fourth Rock.  2005.  Bremer (Siloam Grace Stamile x Brookwood Mamasan) x (Siloam Paul Watts x unknown) Diploid.   28" height but usually less, 4" flowers.  3 wide branches (not including terminal y's) and an average of 23 buds, but as many as 31 counted.  Mid season.  Dormant.  Fourth Rock, named for Mars, is wonderful small flower of impeccable form.  The eyezone ring gives it that 'Planetary' look.  Fourth Rock has been very consistent and is a very good increaser.  Fertile both ways.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.
Forest God.  2005.  Bremer (Cosmic Questions x Quiet Earth) Diploid.  29" height, 5.5"+ flowers.  Mid late season.  2 branches & 12 buds (bud builder).  Dormant.   We've had this seedling around for many years and never registered it due to low bud counts.  Every year customers would inquire and press to either sell it or get it registered, I finally caved to the pressure.  The color of Forest God is a soft yellow-pink polychrome set off by a huge bight green throat.  The color is all about green in actuality.    Substance is incredible and adds to its durability.  Forest God is a good grower and very beautiful.  Fertile, but we've avoided using it due to bud count and branching.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.
Ox Tears.  2005.  Bremer (Earth's Calm  x Siloam Little Fairy) x (Gentle Shepard x Barbara Mitchell) Diploid.  33" height, 4.75" flowers. Late season.  5 branches & at least 22 buds.  Ox Tears is wonderful lavender with a light purple band above a super green throat.  Petals are bisected by a cream midrib.  Ox Tears is also a subtle bitone.  Typically she blooms in bouquets and the flowers have enough spacing to allow for complete opening.  Wonderful plant that is fertile both ways. A very consistent garden performer that may not have the flash of some cultivars, but will put on a great show in clump form.  An excellent plant for producing vibrant bi-tones and broad midribs.  We've got some dandy seedlings from old Ox Tears.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.
Intrepid Patriot.  2005. Bremer (American Revolution (Open Hearth x Kindly Light)) x Jan's Twister. Diploid.   33" height, 6" flowers.  4 wide branches, not counting terminal y's & 23 buds.  Mid season.  Intrepid Patriot is a superior performer that has a wonderful airy look to it.  Flowers are large, but are held high above the foliage on slender, but sturdy scapes.  Color is maroon red with a darker eyezone.  Form is somewhat variable depending on conditions.  Star shaped in cool weather, but pinched petals and twisting sepals in warmer weather.  Beautiful in any condition.  Intrepid Patriot is a fast increaser and it does very well in clay soils!  Fertile both ways and has produced many beautiful seedlings in a bevy of colors and patterns.   Double Please see catalog for up to date pricing. 

Legends Of The Fall. 2005. Bremer  (Caribbean Whipped Cream x (Linda Agin x seedling).  Diploid.  36" height, 6.5" flowers.  4 large branches & 26 buds.  Early mid season and then again very late in fall (sometimes in early season).  Like so many empires and powerful families , the diploid daylily's time of dominance surely appears to have fallen.   This offering may become a representative 'legend' of the diploid era.  Elegance, plant habit, large blooms, outstanding color, flower form and MASSIVE scapes are the legend!  The flowers are a soft lavender-pink with a white midrib.  More than one flower per scape can be expected open at a time.  Simple yet so pleasing.  LOTF was easily the most admired plant in our gardens this summer and put on a good show for the Region 2 Convention tour (even after a 47 degree night).  LOTF is fertile both ways and has been underutilized by us due to a preoccupation with tetraploids.  Please see catalog for up to date pricing.