Solaris Farms Daylily Introductions
for 2006
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*Virtuosity.
2006.
Bremer ((REC#3 x Ed Brown) Strawberry Candy). Tetraploid. 32" height,
5 to 5.25" flowers. 3 branches & average
of 16 buds. Mid-late season. Dormant. Simply
gorgeous. There are many gold edged tets available today,
but few survive for us in Wisconsin. Virtuosity is very
hardy and it does not need warm weather to open or to present its
wonderful gold edge. Pink/lavender is the presiding color
and it has a fine band of darker rose on some days. The
throat has a broad area of yellow extending out on to the petals
and good green throat. Foliage is dark green and holds well
into August here. Clumps of this plant are gorgeous and it
was much admired by visitors through its long bloom period this
summer. Immediate rebloom was noted on this plant, on most
fans the past two summers (but not three years ago). An
excellent dormant that is pod fertile with a little effort, pollen
is easy of course. Seedlings have been good, but require a
bit more time to grow up than other crosses, due to Reckamp background
in all likelihood. The clump image was taken at 7:00 P.M. in
the evening, so the light causes some yellowing of the image.
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*Gather at the River.
2006.
Bremer (David Kirchhoff x Chance Encounter). Tetraploid. 22"
height, 5 to 6" flowers, top branched & 12 to 15 buds. Mid-late season. Dormant.
Gather at the River is not one of those monster plants that knocks your socks
off with excellent scapes. It is, however, a plant
that makes you stop and look due to its fine flowers and
presentation. Scapes are just above the wonderful foliage
and the flowers face upward. David Kirchhoff, the pod
parent is not
hardy here and typically has very spotted/blemished flowers-Gather
at the River is consistently beautiful with few spots and a very
clear lilac-purple color and hardy. Diamond dusting and rock solid
gold edge add to the overall experience. We particularly
like this one due to few other cultivars like it that survive or
perform well in our environment. Instant rebloom was noted
this year on a ten fan clump. Much admired by customers in
the seedling field the past 3 seasons. Please see catalog
for up to date pricing.
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*Colossus and Butterfly.
2006. Bremer
(Ruby Sentinel x Seminole Wind) x Burning Inheritance.
Tetraploid. 44" height, 5" to 5.5"
flowers. 2 to 3 long lateral branches & 18 to 23
buds. Mid season. Dormant. Colossus and
Butterfly is a tall beauty that resembles Fritillaria butterflies
visiting a flowers on branches. The flowers are a
rosey orange with a darker eyezone and lighter midribs.
Throat is yellow and then olive green. What makes this a
special cultivar is the plant and scapes. C&B has
wonderful long branches that allows more than one flower to be
open at one time, that gives the effect of flowers at different
levels. Plants are very large and scapes are strong and sway
in our windy location. The one flaw that I've noted
are flowers that can be spotted, but this usually is not daily
problem. Excellent plant and beautiful flower for the
background due to height.
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*Sunshine
In My Stomach.
2006. Bremer (Grungy x Ruby Sentinel). Tetraploid.
32" height,
5.5" flowers. 3 branches & 17 to 22 buds. Mid-late
season. Dormant. A very good performing red that
really puts on a great show. Scapes are well branched the
plant is very floriferous. Sunshine In My Stomach is has a
somewhat darker halo and a brilliant yellow gold throat.
Generally I like reds with green throats, but this glows and
radiates out on to the petals. The plant consistently
produces 2 to 3 wide lateral branches with 2 or 3 terminals on
each branch. Typically the plant will have more than one
flower open at one time and there is enough space between flowers
for proper opening. It holds well in the sun, but does show
some damage after a long cloudless day. Plants are good
increasers and have excellent wide dark green foliage.
Fertile both ways.
Please see catalog for up to date pricing.
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*Pacific Rainbow.
2006. Seidl/Bremer
(Pacific Rim x Mystical Rainbow). Tetraploid...37" height,
5.25-5.5" flowers. 3 branches & 16 to 20 buds. Mid-late
season. Dormant. This plant was hybridized by
Bill Seidl and grown at Solaris Farms. Pacific Rainbow
has is an excellent garden performer that produces wonderfully
consistent flowers. The medium lavender flower have easily
seen darker eye band and a yellow eye that is green at
center. Midribs are a slightly lighter color. On many
days it has a picottee of the same color as the eye band.
Plants are vigorous and present their flowers well above the
foliage, so one does not have to bend over to view them. An
excellent garden plant and fertile both ways. Please see
catalog for up to date pricing.
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*Belly of Tree Frog.
2006. Bremer
(Wineberry Candy x Ruby Sentinel). 27" height,
4.75" flowers. 3 to 4 nice top branches & 18 buds. Mid
to Late. One of those witches brew concoctions. In
reality the colors remind me of the colors found on the underside
of our male Eastern Gray Tree Frogs-vibrant. The flower is
another that really sticks out in the garden, so much so, that the
garden visitors eye sees it among the many hundreds of other
cultivars in the same field. Upon closer viewing 'Belly of
Tree Frog' isn't the largest or even showiest flower in the
garden, but rather has a very sublte creped substance and the eye
is very warm and inviting. Foliage is the best of any plant
in our fields and is unusually free of environmental marking or
insect damage (deep blue green). Scapes arise just above the
foliage and flowers are presented nicely. A quaility plant
that will show nicely in any northern garden. Fertile both
ways and only used in hybridizing this year for the first time.
One of my favorite flowers. Fetile both ways. Please
see catalog for up to date pricing.
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Hale Bremer.
2006.
Bremer (Jersey Spider
x Jan's Twister) x (Kindly Light x Unknown).
Diploid. 37" height, 8"+ flowers. 6 way
branching and 25 buds. Semi-evergreen. This past
summer I asked my father to go out to the seedling field and
select a plant to be named for him. It was not really
necessary for him to tromp through the seedling field with me,
since I could have told anyone the plant he would select. He
loves big, simple, brightly colored flowers that look good in a
mixed garden. Well the daylily 'Hale Bremer' is all
of those things and will never get lost in a mixed border. HB
is a bright golden yellow star shaped affair. Some pinching
of petals and twisting of sepals occurs. HB dances
in the wind and looks better as the day goes on (by the end of the
day its segments have wide white edges. Like my father
this daylily is a free thinker and likes to show off a bit.
A very good increaser and HB even reblooms! Please
see catalog for up to date pricing.
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