(Sayers ) Double

An almost pure white double with great reflective quality and substance that's seen from across the garden, this plant has the same unusual quilled, folded and ruffled petaloids as her 'Stunning' sisters. The throat starts out lime, changing to lemon afternoons in full sun, on 5" blooms, which sit nicely above its 22" plant. Bud count is 14, but is heavy bloomer due to heavy scape production. Plant is Dormant, Diploid, and fertile both ways. Breeding is out of Seedling #1.95 garden named, 'Pink Margarita'.

Awaiting name 'starburst night'
Very dark eggplant bloom with bright white midribs that look like a starburst, radiating out from throat, on both petals and sepals. The throat is bright lime green, surrounded by an almost black eye. Sepal tips sometimes are white after cool nights. Scapes are unusually curled, bent and twisted. Very hardy and vigorous. 15 buds on 3 way branching. Throws up lots of scapes.

Very white with ruffled, bubbly gold edge, green heart and yellow green throat. 6.5", 27" hi, three way branching 15 buds per scape. Sibling to Whispering Pink Bubble Dancer. Pending name Whispering White Bubble Dancer. Very hardy, very vigorous and very fast increaser. Reblooms and throws up lots of scapes. Semi Evergreen. Tetraploid. Seedling #101.98/56.00/54.01*

(Sayers 2023) Unusual Form, Cascade, Small Flower, Early

BANANA CURLS is a very recurved, narrow, Unusual Form bloom. It's a Small Flower, only 4", of bright saturated yellow, with 1/4" white edges, and a green throat. It has three x branching with a bud count of 32. Blooms are Early Season, Fragrant, Semi evergreen and Diploid. Very vigorous, and hardy. Fertile both ways. Seedling #36.97. (Kindly Light x seedling)

(Sayers 2004) Crested Double

Throws great crested kids. AHS Achievement Medal winner in 2004, CRESTED FRENCH KISS is a pale cream crested double, with a lavender eye, green throat, and both lavender and gold ruffled edges. The bloom is 4" on a 24" scape, although it grows to 32" tall, has five way candelabra branching, and up to 45 buds per scape. Mid season, extended, it blooms thru August. It's very vigorous and hardy semi-evergreen.
Tetraploid, it's both pollen and very pod fertile, and has been a great parent for branching and bud count, as well as crested kids.

(Sayers 2017) Extra Large Unusual Form

DANCING LIKE A BANSHEE - A huge, 12.5", Unusual Form bloom, over 20% poly. Blooms Early Season, on a 42" high scape with 4 way branching and 29 buds. Mauve with red veins, burgundy eye, yellow green throat with white midrib. Semi evergreen, Diploid. Very fertile both ways and a very vigorous, fast increaser.

(Sayers 2023) Double, Reblooming
Dancing Petals - Lavender double with large bright lime green throat that extends far out onto petals, ending in a small white edge. Bloom is 6" wide. Registered as 34", but scapes vary from 29" to 37" high. This is a lady of many faces, each more beautiful than the next. She's free flowering, throwing scapes most of the season, 3 way branched with 15 buds per scape. Very fertile both ways, Diploid and Semievergreen. She's out of the same breeding that produced 'Larry Young's Wow', 'Fluff Your Tutu' and 'Whispering Lavender and Lace'. Seedling # 62.01 Limited stock.

(Sayers 2023) Unusual Form Crispate
DANCING PINK PRINCESS - A lovely cool pink 10"+ bloom with pinched and folded petals and corkscrew sepals that sometimes quill as well. She has a large, light, lemon lime green throat, a white midrib and very small white edge on petals. Bloom is Early Midseason, with 3 way branching and 18 buds on a 42" tall scape. Foliage is Semi-Evergreen and diploid. Vigorous, and Fertile both ways. Seedling #106.98

(Sayers 2004) Polytepalous Double

EIGHT DAYS A WEEK is a very high percent, 99% polytepalous plant that doubles 40% as well. It's a lovely, large, 7" creamy peach flower, with white midribs, ruffles, and a yellow green throat, on a 30" scape. A Mid late, it reblooms into August, and has 17 buds on three way branching. A diploid, it's both pod and pollen fertile, and has been a wonderful parent for me, throwing lots of polytepalous kids. (sdlg #130.98)

(Sayers 2017) Polymerous Extra Large

EIGHT FLYING CRANES - Polymerous bloom 95% of the time, with a slight Spatulate, Unusual Form flower. The Pale Lemon Cream bloom has a very pale pink halo and a pale green throat. It's a very flat form, being 7" across, on a 24" scape that's 3 way branched. It blooms Mid season, is Dormant and Diploid. Seedling # 11.00, first bloomed in 2000.

(Sayers 2020) Polymerous Extra Large

EIGHT LADIES DANCING - 99%, Poly bloom. Reblooming. Elegant, huge, 9" ruffled blooms are clear, cool pink, softly ruffled, with pale lime green open form throat and a light rose band. Blooms Midseason into August, sending up multiple scapes in zone 6, from each fan all season, into September on sturdy 30" scapes. Dormant, diploid and fertile both ways. Seedling # 89.98/2.15

(Sayers 2017) Unusual Form

FIRE DRAGON ON THE WIND - A favorite in the garden, it is a Bi-colored, Unusual Form, with quilled sepals. Tetraploid. Blooms are 8" on a tall 40" high scape, with three way branching and 18 buds. Fire Dragon on the Wind gets it's distinctive color, edge and eye from it's parent Passion's Promise. Petals are a bright lipstick red with with a pale yellow edge. Sepals are an intense yellow, showing a red eye and pale wide edge. It's Semi evergreen, hardy, vigorous, and blooms mid season. Seedling #29.00, out of Passion's Promise.

(Sayers 2020) Double Polymerous

'FLUFF YOUR TUTU' - A lovely lavender pink 6" constant double, that loves to poly double about 40% of the time as well. It has pale white pink sepals, a pale yellow green throat and white midribs. It's very fertile both pod and pollen, and has been a great parent. It's sibling to 'Larry Young's Wow', and like it's sib is dormant, vigorous and makes wonderful neat clumps. Scapes are 32 high, three way branched, with 22 buds per. Blooms Midseason, and is diploid. Seedling #16.98.

(Sayers 2017) Unusual Form Extra Large

FLYING DRAGON IN A RED SKY - It's a huge 10" Unusual Form bloom, up to 12" when not recurved, out of Passion's Promise. It's an intense red with an orange eye and yellow throat, white midribs and a light edge. Usually with quilled sepals. 26 " high, three way branching with 15 bud count. Very striking in the garden, it's never overlooked because of it's size and color. Throws up lots of scapes and has a long bloom season. Tetraploid. Semievergreen, blooms mid season thru August. Very vigorous and fast increaser. One plant still available.

(Sayers 2013)

ISABEL HIBBARD'S WHISPER is a very unusual, cool, light rose pink self, with darker rose eye and a yellow green throat. Having a 6" bloom 44" high, it's lovely planted with my David Austin roses because it's color is so clear. It was named for Isabel Hibbard, who was a wonderful daylily friend to many of us, mentor to me, and important hybridizer of daylilies. Always in great demand by garden visitors, stock is limited. It's a stunningly beautiful garden plant, has 26 buds, and three way, well spaced, branching. It's fragrant, semi-evergreen, diploid, and fertile both ways. (sdlg #46.1997)

(Sayers, 2004) Polytepalous Double

A high percentage, 90%, polytepalous double, LARRY YOUNG'S WOW is a clear, cool shade of lavender, with a light yellow/green throat, white midrib and ruffled petals. The bloom is 6" on a 24" scape. It has three way branching, 21 to 28 buds per scape and blooms mid season into August. It's hardy semi-evergreen, and vigorous, fertile both ways, diploid, and has been a great parent for me, throwing cool, clear colored polytepals. It was named after Larry Young, a true gentleman and daylily friend from Long Island, who spent a visit to the garden rooted in front of this plant just saying "Wow!" (sdlg #130.98) (Released in 2013)

(Sayers 2023) Stippled and Repeats

LAVENDER PINK CLOUD - I've been enjoying this 5.5" Stippled beauty in my garden for years and have decided to release it. The bloom is a very pale, cool lavender pink beauty with green heart going out to a lemon lime throat, surrounded by a cloudy, stippled lavender eye. All is intersected with a white midrib. There's a double edge, one lavender, stippled and ruffled, which is surrounded with a guided wire picotte. This plant has 24 buds on a 30" hi scape with 5 way branching. The plant is Vigorous, Tetraploid, Semi-Evergreen, Repeats and fertile both ways. Seedling #7.24.98.8

(Sayers 2020) Small Sculpted Cristated Double

LITTLE BALLERINA IN A TUTU - Won Best Seedling at 2004 LIDS Flower Show. It's a Small, 3" Sculpted, Cristate Double. Petals are a soft Cream Peach, with purple etched eye and Lime throat. Scape is 26" high, 3 way branched with 16 buds, blooming Early Midseason and reblooming into August here in zone 6. It's a Hardy Evergreen, sometimes Semievergreen in cold winters, Diploid. Seedling # 76.00/20.14

(Sayers, 2006) Double, Small flower, Everblooming

MISSY MOO, is a soft, ruffled, 3" to 4" double, of light warm pink, with a rose eye and yellow green throat. It starts blooming here Early, and continues throwing up scapes all summer long, into September, very much like Stella D'oro. It has up to 57 buds on a 24" scape, four way + branching and blooms continually. Vigorous, dormant, and a good increaser, it's tetraploid and very fertile both ways. (sdlg #120.1998)

(Sayers 2020) Color Changer

NIGHT INTO LIGHT - Color Changer - In the morning, it's dark velvety purple with a navy band and yellow green throat. As the day progresses, first the sepals start to lighten to pale lavender, then the petals lighten to change to violet with a navy band, and white midribs appear on the petals. By late afternoon depending on light and temperature, the plant finishes with grey/lavender petals, with a darker band, chrome yellow eye and light cream lavender sepals.
It's a Passion's Promise kid, which is where it gets it's gift of color changing. Bloom size is 5" on a 3 way branched, 34" scape with 26 buds. It's a Early Midseason, Tetraploid, and Semi-Evergreen. Seedling # 50.00.

(Sayers 2017). Extra Large

NIGHT SONG OF THE DRAGON - Stunning, Extra large, 9" flower, 41" high. Very dark red/burgundy with velvet texture and veined petals. Large green open form throat with partial midrib. The bud count is 24 on four way branching. It reblooms here in my northern zone 6 garden. It blooms 20 up to 50% Polytepalous, Tetraploid. Evergreen. Hardy, vigorous, blooms Early mid season. Passion's Promise breeding. Seedling # 14.99.

(Sayers 2013) Double

ONSLOWS POWDER PUFF TOY is a light, clear, bright pink with bright rose eye, yellow to green throat, with cresting on extra petaloids. The flower is a 5.5" double, with a height of 34". It's very free flowering, throwing up multiple scapes per fan, with 20 buds to a scape. Starting Mid season, it blooms thru August. Diploid, it's fertile both ways, a favorite in the garden, very vigorous, hardy, semievergreen that goes dormant in hard winters. (sdlg#88.1998)

(Sayers 2007) Unusual Form

One of my best plants, OUT OF THE MIST was awarded an AHS Junior Citation in 2007, and also won Best Seedling at the Long Island Daylily Society flower show. It's a lovely graceful clear lavender. An Unusual Form, it has a 7.5" bloom, and is 44" high. It's an EMid, but blooms into August due to its 34 buds and four way branching, even here in zone 6. It's sev, dip and fertile both ways. Very vigorous, it's a really great parent in the "Whispering" line. So popular in the garden, I've been selling out before I could list if for sale.

(Sayers, 2004)

It always turns heads, PARISIENNE PETTICOAT is such a very pale, cool, white-pink with a cool pink eye, yellow green throat, and lots of ruffles, just like a petticoat. Surprisingly distinctive in the garden, and one of those blooms you won't forget. It has a 5" Bloom, is 27" High, and has 17 buds. It's a Mid season, Dormant, Diploid. (sdlg # 52.1997) (First released 2014)

(Sayers 2013) Unusual Form

Bright, intense red, with pale yellow edge and giant yellow/green star throat, PASSION WITH A TWIST, is a crispate with twisted, quilled and recurved sepals. The bloom is 7", on a scape 24" high. Puts up lots of scapes from each plant. Blooms Mid season thru August. Fertile both ways. Has been a good parent throwing both Unusual Form and big, flat, star throats. Parent to "Fire Dragon on the Wind" and "Flying Dragon in a Red Sky". A Passion's Promise kid. Very vigorous, and a fast increaser. Semi evergreen. Tetraploid

(Sayers 2014) Double

PASSION'S CRIMSON ECLIPSE is a dark, intense, saturated red, with yellow green throat and white edge on petals, sepals and tepals that get bigger as the day gets hotter. This plant blooms all summer, with 40 buds, and five way candelabra branching. Very, very vigorous. 4.5" Bloom, 36" High. Mid season thru August into September. Semi-Evergreen, Tetraploid. Very fertile both ways. Passion's Promise breeding. sdlg #91.98, first bloomed in 1998 but not released thill 2014.

(Sayers 2014) Double

An intense bright lipstick red, with a lighter red notched watermark, yellow/green throat and white edge. PASSION'S HEART DESIRE has many faces, sometimes round, sometimes quilled and sometimes the doubling is crested. The bloom is 6", with 28" scapes, and 18 buds on 3 way branching. It blooms 90% double, Early-Mid season, into August, throwing up lots of scapes. A Vigorous, fast increaser, Semi-Evergreen, Tetraploid. Fertile both ways. She's been a good parent. Seedling 132.98 out of Passion's Promise.

(Sayers 2006)

PASSION'S LUNAR ECLIPSE is an amazing shade of dark eggplant purple with a blue/grey halo above a green throat and a white ruffled edge. It has a 5" bloom, is 22" high, with 16 buds on three way branching. It's an extended bloomer, throwing up multiple scapes per fan, blooming from Mid season thru August. Semi-Evergreen, it's vigorous and Tetraploid. Fertile pod and pollen. Seedling #183.98 from Passion's Promise.

(Sayers 2017)

PASSION'S MULBERRY MOON - A very unusual shade of mulberry, with a blue/black eye, veins, and white midribs. It's a 5" bloom, 40" tall, 30 bud count on five way branching. The plant is in very high demand in the garden. It puts on a wonderful show, presenting a huge mound of bloom, starting in Mid season, thru August and continuing into September. Very hardy and vigorous, semi-evergreen. Very fertile both ways. Tetraploid. Seedling #132.01 out of Passion's Promise, first bloomed in 2001.

(Sayers 2014)

PASSION'S PINK PETUTTI is an everblooming, vibrant, clear hot pink with lighter watermark, yellow/green throat, white midrib and white edge. It has a 6.5" bloom, is 32" tall, and has 23 buds on four way branching. It's Mid season, but continuously sends up scapes, blooming into October. Hardy, Semi-Evergreen, Tetraploid, Fertile both ways. ( sdlg #723.1998)

(Sayers 1999)

An AHS Honorable Mention winner, PASSION'S PROMISE is a Color Changer Daylily. It's both light and temperature sensitive, changing as the day progresses. The plant is 28" tall with a 5" flower, and has 32 buds on three way branching. Blooms Mid Late thru August, is a hardy, Semi-Evergreen. It's tetraploid and has been an amazing parent, passing along it's distinctive traits and vigor. It is both pollen and pod fertile. ((seedling x self) x (seedling x self)) x ((seedling x self) x (seedling x self))

(Sayers, 2014) Rebloomer

PASSION'S SUN KISSED GLOW, a rebloomer in zone 6, is sun sensitive, goes from a strong orange in the morning to a light sweet tangerine by evening, always showing pale green throat, and light lemon/white ruffled edge. Blooms are 6" on a 26" to 28" high scape. It sends up two fans, in the Spring, from each fan, when it's happy, with 17 buds per scape on three way branching. Being a rebloomer, it continues to send up additional scapes from Mid season into August and September. Semi-Evergreen, Tetraploid, and fertile both ways. Seedling 92.98.

Very pale, cool, green yellow, with extended green throat and very pale pink blush eye. Unusual Form, 8" recurved bloom, 53" high, 3 way branching, 15 blooms. This plant has unusual grey scapes and buds, with a white midrib, and blooms from mid July till mid September. Diploid, Late Mid Season, fragrant, fertile both ways. Semi evergreen. Diploid.

(Sayers 2006)

SOLAR CIRCLE is a distinct red bloom, with a very large, light, bright, sunny yellow extended throat blending into a small peach halo. It's also got a sunny edge the same color. The bloom is 6" plus, on a scape 24" to 26" high, with 18 buds, and three way branching. She blooms Mid season, is hardy and vigorous. Like most of her Passion's Promise sisters, she's Semi-Evergreen, Tetraploid and fertile both ways. She's been a good parent, throwing large flat blooms, with large extended throats. (sdlg #65.1998)

(Sayers 2023 ) Small Flower, Spotted, Reblooms

SPOTTED BABY DRAGON - Is an intense Lipstick red with a darker red eye, yellow green throat, large cream ruffled edge and cream midrib. This plants Passion's Promise heritage is obvious. Most days the cream edge has bright red spots. This small bloom is 3.75" to 4", with 12+ buds on a 24" scape. This plant repeats in my zone 6 garden. Blooms start Early-Midseason, and go into August. Repeats. Tetraploid, Semi-evergreen, very vigorous, fast increasing and hardy. Fertile both ways. Seedling #56.20. (Passion's Promise x seedling)

(Sayers 2023) Double, Reblooming, Cristated

A pale creamy peach that brings to mind the color of exotic silk, this plant has the same unusual quilled, folded and ruffled petals and petaloids of her 'Stunning' sisters. She has a pale cream silk throat that blends from the heart of this bloom, out onto its luscious petals, finishing in a creamy midrib. Blooms are 5" on a 30" high scape. Bud count is 12, but plants throw up multiple scapes all season in my zone 6 garden. Diploid, Dormant, Early Midseason into August. Vigorous, fast increaser. Breeding is out of Seedling #1.95 garden named, 'Pink Marguretta'. My 'Stunning' line originates from one lucky pod. Fertile both ways. Seedling #71.98. (Seedling x Seedling)

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(Sayers 2020) Double

STUNNING IN PINK - Is such a vivid hot pink, that it's stunning from across the garden. It's a 100% Double with yellow green throat, very heavily ruffled and crinkled petals and petaloids. It starts blooming Midseason, each fan puts up a scape, and puts on a great show thru August. Bloom is 5.5", on a 26" to 29" high scape, with 18 blooms. It's a bud builder, is Diploid and Dormant. Is both pod and pollen fertile. It's one of the kids out of Seedling #1.95 and was first bloomed as Seedling #39.00/17.03

(Sayers 2020)

SWEET EILEEN ANN - Named by Marion Romeo in memory of her special cousin. This is a lovely plant with light cool pink petals, a darker rose band, and rose veins, yellow-green throat, white midribs and ruffles. It's and extremely vigorous plant, starting to open it's 3.5" blooms Early Season, well into August, with up to 45 buds on 4 x branched 27" scapes. It's Dormant and Diploid. Seedling # 53.97

(Sayers 2017)

TINY ANGEL IN A TUTU - A tiny little 2.5" cream double, with raspberry red split eye, with a yellow green throat. Petals recurve and sepals usually do not. She has 21 to 26 buds on four way branching. Tiny Angel is a little slut. She's very, very fertile both ways with lots of pollen on free standing anthers. Diploid, Seedling #48.13/17.01

(Sayers 2006)

VENETIAN JESTER is a red and cream Bi-color with cream edges on ruffled petals. Blooms are 4", on 24" to 30" heigh scapes, with 20 buds, and four way, well-spaced branching. Under excellent conditions BLOOMS HAVE UP TO 6 WAY BRANCHING WITH 45 BLOOMS PER SCAPE. Blooms Mid season, sending up additional scapes thru August. Dormant. Tetraploid. Fertile both ways. Vigorous. Striking and distinctive from even 100' away. A favorite in the garden and a great garden plant. Full sibling to Venetian Ruler (sdlg #40.98)

(Sayers 2006) Extra Large, Reblooming

My favorite plant in the garden. A very, very distinctive, 7" bloom, double eyed, edged and bi-color, Passion's Promise kid, with amazing substance. Like it's parent, VENETIAN RULER changes according to sun exposure, but each is more beautiful than the other. Scapes are 28" high, 16 buds on three way branching. Throws multiple scapes per fan. Mid-Late season blooming into August. Semi-Evergreen, Tetraploid. Fertile both ways. Good parent. (sdlg #23.98)

(Sayers 2020) 90% Polymerous, Unusual Form, Sometimes Poly Double

WHICH WITCH IS WHICH - is a very exciting high percent, Polytepalous, Unusual Form. Some blooms have spatulate petals and quilled sepals. Others are cascade. Soft white , with pale cool yellow throat, it has a 9" bloom, is 46" high, has 24 buds on three way branching. Blooms Early season, and reblooms. Semi-Evergreen, Diploid. Fertile both ways. Most buds are quads, but even the tri buds produce polytepalous blooms on this plant like it's sibling Wicked White Witch. Full sibling to Whispering White Witch and Wicked White Witch. Very vigorous and fast increaser. Seedling W2/63.01

(Sayers 2017). Unusual Form

WHISPERING ARCTIC SUNRISE - Unusual Form, Cascade, 7" cream bloom, with a lovely bright tangerine eye and yellow green throat. 44" high, 30 buds on 3 way branching. Bud builder. Evergreen, vigorous, fertile, diploid, blooms mid season into late. Seedling #19.00

(Sayers, 2014) Unusual Form

WHISPERING BLUE EYED WITCH is a clear lavender self, with light blue/lavender watermark, and an extended lime green throat. It's an Unusual Form with spatulate petals, and quilled and twisted sepals. With a 6" flower on a 38" graceful upright scape and three way branching, and 23 buds, it blooms Mid-Late season, thru August. Both pod and pollen fertile. (sdlg 29.2001)

(Sayers 2017) Unusual Form

WHISPERING DANCING SUNSHINE - Unusual Form, Crispate, 7" bloom, with quilled, curling, twisting, and pinched petals dancing on a 36" high scape. The color is a vibrant, cool lemon with a green heart and pale yellow ruffled edges. It's a vigorous, hardy semi evergreen plant, with 22 buds on 3 way branching. Diploid, blooms mid late. Seedling #101.01 first bloomed in 2001.

(Sayers 2017). Polymerous

WHISPERING FOUR WINDS - Is a high percent polytepalous, 9", cool pink bloom with light yellow/green extended throat, white midribs and ruffles on the petals. Scape is 38" high with 22 buds on four way branching. Hardy semi-evergreen, vigorous, diploid. Blooms Mid late. Seedling # 13.13.

(Sayers 2014)

WHISPERING GRAND DAME is a very tall 52" upright, strong scape that "Looks you in the eye." Light cool pink, it has a lavender eye, white midrib, and yellow green throat. The large blooms are 6.5" when recurved, and 10" when open, with 21 buds and three way branching. When established and allowed to set deep roots, becomes 25% polytepalous. Mid-Late season, blooms thru August. Semi-Evergreen, Diploid. Fertile both ways. Another favorite in the garden. (sdlg #115.97)