We are very excited to announce the list of plants that are on their way to use from Floyd Cove Nursery.  As a reminder, the bidding in the auction is limited to current members of CIDS, so be sure to join/renew before the meeting if you would like to participate. Our Treasurer, Deb Miller, is responsible for maintaining membership lists, so please contact her if you have any questions about your status.

The List:

Barefoot Bay (Stamile-Pierce, 2010)

41″, 6.25″, Early-Midseason, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 34 buds on 5-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “This is one of the most gorgeous daylilies at the nursery and as cutting edge as you are going to find.  BAREFOOT BAY was Grace’s favorite large flower, and it is easy to see why.  Clean lavender coloration, with a large white watermark and a bright green throat.  The large blooms are set off by the prominent and very ruffled edging of cream chartreuse.  A must for those breeding for large edges on tall scapes.  Like nothing else, and a grand parent.  Fertile both ways.”

Blood Wine (Stamile-Pierce, 2011)

32″, 6″, Early-Midseason, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 30 buds on 5-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “Dark red color with darker black red veining catch your attention along with wide overlapping petals outlined in sizzling silver white.  A lovely true red, ‘BLOOD WINE’ looks as though it was colored by a Cajun Witchdoctor.  Besides the dark color, ‘BLOOD WINE’ is easily pod fertile and passes on the white edging to her seedlings.  Very ruffled, especially for a red.  Fertile both ways.”

Blue Rhino (Pierce-G, 2011)

37″, 6.5″, Early, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 30 buds on 4-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “This is one neat flower.  What makes the coloration unique in ‘BLUE RHINO’ is the copious amount of blue tones blended into the lavender and purple colors.  It is as close to a big blue flower as you can get, though hard to photograph.
BLUE RHINO is also our biggest patterned daylily at almost 7” on first blooms.  There is a double edge of light raspberry and blue/lavender, this is then outlined in white.  Big, flat, and showy.  Makes strong prolifs too.  Fertile both ways.”

Butterfly Mountain (Stamile-Pierce, 2010)

38″, 4.75″, Early-Midseason, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 45 buds on 6-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “What an incredible flower, and our biggest blue eye to date. You will notice that none of this years butterflies resemble the butterflies of the past, jumping ahead several generations using new conversions and a strong emphasis on discarding the look alikes! BUTTERFLY MOUNTAIN is a breakthrough with multiple shades of blue coloration, rings and veining. This flower is just as it is in the picture, has an incredible scape and blooms and blooms, and look at the stats!! Beautiful. Fertile both ways.”

Coit Tower (Stamile-Pierce, 2010)

42″, 6.5″, Early-Midseason, Rebloom, Unusual Form, Tet, Evergreen, 40 buds on 5-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “Our tallest full form to date at 42” high. A tower in the garden.  We found visitors drawn to this flower as they saw the clumps from afar.  The dark purple petals are edged in white bordering the black picotte.  What makes Coit Tower unique too, is her crispate pinched petals, giving her an extra flare.  This daylily makes a statement in the garden.   Fertile Both ways.”

Crowning Fire (Stamile-Pierce, 2011)

40″, 5.75″, Early-Midseason, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 45 buds on 7-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “This was Pat’s favorite red pollen parent for color.  “Now that’s red”  The color is a true red with a large very bright green throat.  ‘CROWNING FIRE’ shows a large white watermark that nicely accents the heavily ruffled white edges on the petals.  Not a bad scape either just look at the stats.  Has been a great breeder for me, and an easy pod parent.   Fertile both ways.”

Dragonfly Blues (Stamile-Pierce, 2010)

32″, 4.5″, Early-Midseason, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 25 buds on 4-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “Our largest butterfly this year at 5 1/2” if you held out the petals, and named by Karen who liked the shape of the big blue pattern in the eye. The dark blue is a wonderful contrast to the nearly white petals outlined in blue and raspberry. The eye pattern is again repeated boldly on the sepals. Easily fertile both ways. Different.”

Emerald Prism (Stamile, 2009)

32″, 5.87″, Early, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 18 buds on 3-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “Dramatic and bold.  EMERALD PRISM has the largest of the green throats. Lovely clear purple prismatic eye.  Low arching foliage.  Fertile both ways.”

Jupiter’s Fortune (Stamile-Pierce, 2011)

36″, 5.75″, Early-Midseason, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 40 buds on 6-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “The first word that comes to mind is dramatic.  The blooms have a bold eye, yet there is a pattern as well.  ‘JUPITER’S FORTUNE’ has a triple edge of bluish plum purple, raspberry, and silver.  The eye of ‘JUPITER”S FORTUNE’ covers so much of the flower face that from a distance you see a large plum circle with white on the ends.  But the best attribute has to be the scape, MASSIVE – With horizontal branches going every which way!  This is the first and only introduction from ‘TET. CIRCLE UPON CIRCLE’ that I am aware of.  Clear clean coloration, lovely green throat.  Fertile both ways.”

Jurassic Fiesta (Stamile-Pierce, 2011)

40″, 7.5″, Early, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 30buds on 4-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “If you love big showy orange flowers as I do, you will love ‘JURASSIC FIESTA’.  HUGE, flat, and colorful.  The base color is a light pumpkin orange, with an intense eye of bright orange red.  There is a red picotee all the way around the over 4” + wide petals.  Nothing quite like it.  A true stand out in the modern Tetraploid garden.  I don’t think there was one visitor who didn’t ask about this daylily.  Giant!  Fertile both ways.”

Lake Champagne (Pierce-G., 2011)

47″, 6″, Early-Midseason, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 35 buds on 5-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “This is a light and exceptionally cool, clear, lavender blossom, displayed on very tall well branched scapes.  The flower petals are lightly ruffled and edged with hooks and knobs of gold, with a light lemon green throat, and a green center.   What makes ‘LAKE CHAMPAGNE’ a stand out is the tremendously thick, tall scapes, and easy seed set! Fertile both ways.”

Limonero Squeeze (Stamile-Pierce, 2011)

26″, 6″, Early, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 40 buds on 7-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “Green continues to be an extremely difficult daylily color to capture on camera.  ‘LIMONERO SQUEEZE’ is a large lemon-lime self with very heavy substance.  The strong green coloration from the throat radiates out mixing into the lemon petal color.  It has more green than either of the parents and our greenest daylily to date.  As the whether warms, the wide petals role back by daybreak.  Easily fertile both ways.”

Mazatlan (Stamile-Pierce, 2011)

45″, 6.75″, Early-Midseason, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 53 buds on 4-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “‘MAZATLAN’ is a much improved ‘Violet Becomes You’.  Taller and better branched.  Larger, with a wider more ruffled white edge.  ‘MAZATLAN’ has a thick heavy substance and the dark violet purple color is cool and clear.  Quite sunfast for such a dark shade of purple.  Scapes are thick and the plants are strong with blue green foliage.  A must for purple daylily lovers.   Fertile both ways.”

Pacifica (Stamile-Pierce, 2011)

33″, 6″, Early-Midseason, Rebloom, Evergreen, 25 buds on 5-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “‘PACIFICA’ was pat’s favorite Blue Grass Music kid.  This large and round flower is a mix of mauve lavender and purple, with a touch of blue especially in the eye and edge.  Wide overlapping petals and sepals display the flat flower face.  Green throat.   ‘PACIFICA’ is a nice addition for those collecting and breeding daylilies in these tones.   Fertile both ways.”

Picotee Prism (Stamile-Pierce, 2010)

27″, 5.5″, Early-Midseason, Rebloom, Tet, Dormant, 20 buds on 3-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “Next to PIKES PEAK this was “that unusual daylily” everyone wooed over. PICTOEE PRISM is not as tall as our other prisms, but she makes up for it with the strong plum picotte edge not seen on any of the other prisms. Being a dormant I suspect scape height will be much higher in the north. Fertile both ways.”

Rose Knockout (Stamile, 2009)

33″, 7″, Early, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 21 buds on 3-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “Used as a stepping stone to create big gaudy edged reds, this tall rose to rose pink with a wide fringy gold edging is a real presence in the garden.  Big, flat, showy 4 inch plus ruffled petals, are displayed to perfection.  As the season progresses the flower color lightens and the edging becomes quite exaggerated.   Rose Knockout is a stand out in the garden.  A real beauty!  Fertile both ways.”

Superstitious (Pierce-G., 2012)

43″, 6.5″, Early, Rebloom, Tet, Evergreen, 45 buds on 8-way branching. From Floyd Cove: “One of the biggest challenges today is creating something new! Superstitious makes that leap and has both top notch characteristics for the breeder like a tall scape, loads of buds, and super fertility, being another of my “Pod Studs”.  For the collector the light shadowed watermark contrasts nicely with the rich purple red color and big ruffled edge of both gold and white.  Superstitious has been a tremendous parent for me being so pod fertile with the ability to take so many other daylilies and make them both larger and taller.  Traits that are a must at Floyd Cove.”

A big thank you to Floyd Cove Nursery for sending so many beautiful plants!