Registered as diurnal, this plant starts to open around dinner time the evening before in my Huron County, MI, garden, and is fully open before sunrise.
This cultivar has incredibly strong scapes, and reblooms here in 7a. It is not an early morning opener, but is worth the wait, with its pleasantly multi-hued lemony business.
While 'Sharply Focused' is noted for hardiness to zone 5, I have been growing it quite well in zone 3. It blooms in early to midseason (then reblooms). It just keeps putting out perfect bloom after perfect bloom, with a lovely multicolour eye and pie crust edge - and does not 'hang up' on opening blooms that are already fully fledged by just after 6 a.m.
The lighter, smokey-blue tones of the complex eye (with a lavender-violet outer, second ring bleeding like spilt watercolours into the near-white petals) will grab your attention from anywhere in the gardens. (It has also produced poly blooms in my gardens.) It reaches every inch of the listed 36-inch scape height, flowering well above the foliage. If you only want to add 'one' new daylily into your garden this year - this would be the 'one' to add.
A great miniature daylily. The description says bloom size is 3" but in my garden the blooms are 2" and always double. The foliage is also smaller and is in scale with the blooms. If you like mini's you should definitely have this in your garden.
One of my favorite daylilies. In my zone 5 garden it forms a large plant with lots of blooms over at least a 6 week period (from end of June to end of July). I especially love how the flowers stand well above the foliage so that you can really appreciate the glowing color. Rust has not been an issue for me.
Memphis made it unscathed through this past winter ('22/'23) in established in-ground clumps. Nights got down to 5 degrees several times, with temperature yo-yo-ing that wiped out half of the potted material here in 7a. This cultivar may be evergreen, but she shows she can handle some gnarly chill. (I'm going with a female pronoun because of the blush pink and frills, but you can roll however you wish.) Since I got her from 5a in Indiana, I suspected she could tolerate cold. Blooming later than most varieties, her scapes are somewhat protected from late spring freezes. She's prettiest when the temps are warm, perhaps, in part, because she takes a little while to open fully on cool mornings. However, growing Memphis above the rust-belt means less worry about her rust susceptibility.
Gorgeous when if fully opens but definitely has a lot of blooms that hang up [and never fully open] on the big edge ruffles both in my TX and MI gardens. On the other hand, the plant performs well as a dormant in both locations. 2023 bloom FFO 5/17/23 in TX and 7/18/23 in MI. Now if someone could just hybridize out the hanging....
Gorgeous and unique looking. However, a bit lazy. the blooms do not open fully until later in the morning. So, not a plant you can enjoy before heading to work. Also meaning it is annoying to hybridize with.
Great rebloomer and has an extended bloom. Second day the bloom is still holding form, although a bit faded slightly wrinkled. I don't deadhead until day three.
Multiplies well and hardy in northern climates.
I have had this one in my garden for a couple of years and made some successful crosses with other diploids that I have. This variety is a diploid variety.
extract from Plant Patent 22799
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SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention comprises a new and distinct cultivar of Hemerocallis plant of the dormant type, and hereinafter is referred to by the cultivar name 'Double Pardon Me'.
The new cultivar of the present invention originated in a production block among 'Pardon Me' Hemerocallis plants growing near West Grove, Pa., U.S.A. The 'Pardon Me' plants growing in the block had been asexually reproduced by division. A single plant of the new cultivar was removed and isolated from the block and was thereafter preserved and studied in order to determine its possible characterization as being a new and distinct cultivar. It has been concluded as a result of this study that the new cultivar of the present invention is a spontaneous whole plant mutation of the 'Pardon Me' cultivar of unknown causation. It further has been determined that the new cultivar can be consistently distinguished from the 'Pardon Me' cultivar through the display of a dissimilar highly attractive inflorescence. More specifically, the new cultivar upon study and observation was found to reliably form a significantly greater number of tepals per blossom than the 'Pardon Me' cultivar. It was determined that the new 'Double Pardon Me' cultivar consistently forms eighteen (18) tepals per blossom, while the parent 'Pardon Me' cultivar displays exclusively single blossoms having only six (6) tepals. This finding with respect to the characterization of the new cultivar has been additionally observed during a number of subsequent growing seasons prior to the release of the new cultivar to the public.
I met Nancy Britz, the hybridizer of Sagamore Linda Murphy, many years ago. She helped us choose this daylily to name in honor of my Mother, Linda Murphy, an avid gardener. She and the generations before her gave me my love of the garden.
'Before' is noted as being nocturnal, opening around midnight ... I generally see it begin to open by late afternoon, early evening... literally, the buds are starting to spread by 5 o'clock in the evening. And very early morning, they are fully open and have begun curling (never the same from bloom to bloom or day to day).
At 5 or 6 in the morning, the flowers are fully open to the day and covered with dew... I have noted, on several occasions, that the intensity of the green throat can be extremely vibrant before 6 a.m. It will pale somewhat as the day begins and soften as the sun begins to hit the blooms, but that early intensity is so strong you might think the photos have been tweaked - not the case. The camera can barely do justice to this lovely daylily.
My first red daylily, purchased in 1979. Thought I had taken it with me when I moved, but it was lost. Searched for 43 years, finally saw it listed at Olallie Daylily Gardens last year. Bought it, bloomed today, 44 years wait is over.
This daylily just glows like a neon sign! It's so beautiful. It is coral, orange, pink, peach and has an orchid midrib. It puts on a good show for me every year. This plant makes big gorgeous blooms in the ground or potted. If you are looking for an attention grabber, get this daylily!
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