WHISPERING GREEN EYED DRAGON like most of the Whispering line, is an Unusual Form, Cascade. It's color is also unusual, Purple overlaid on Fuchsia with a vivid green throat and white midribs. Bloom is 9", but 6" when recurved on a 46" scape. The plant is fast growing and vigorous, is a heavy bloomer, with four way branching, and 27 buds on a scape. It starts blooming Midseason, and sends up rebloom scapes as well. It's Semi-Evergreen, Diploid and fertile both ways. Very vigorous and fast growing. Seedling # 128.01
WHISPERING LAVENDER AND LACE - A cool clear, light pink/ lavender with a white eye, pale yellow/green throat and white edge. It has a large, 6" blossom, it's 26" tall, has 19 buds on 3 way branching. Blooming Mid season well into August, it's vigorous, sending up lots of scapes for a great show of bloom. Hardy, Semi-evergreen, diploid. Seedling # 178.98.
Lovely, distinctive, pinched, pale peach self, with darker blended eye and pale green throat. There are ruffles on both the petals and sepals. WHISPERING MAIDEN OF THE MIST has a firm waxy texture and holds up very well. It has 6" blooms on a 40" high scape and when established has 34 buds and 5 way branching. It is a low percent poly, 25% to 40%. Blooms Mid season thru late. Semi-Evergreen, Diploid, Fertile both ways. Passes along it's distinctive coloring and texture to it's kids.
WHISPERING PINK BUBBLE DANCER is the ideal name for this bloom. The bloom is a pale, clear cool pink self, with a pale white yellow/green throat and pale white yellow ruffled, bubbled, edges. The clump looks like ruffled bubbles dancing in the garden. Very distinctive and lovely, everyone wants it when they see it in bloom. A round 6" flower, 29" tall, 19 buds on 3 x branched scapes and it reblooms here in zone 6. It blooms Mid season, is semi-evergreen, tetraploid, and fertile both ways. (sdlg #90.1998)
WHISPERING PINK FLAMINGO - Unusual Form, Crispate, with a 7" bloom. Hot pink with blend from green-yellow to orange throat, lighter pink watermark, and white midrib. Like a flamingo, it's tall on a 40 " high, three way branched scape, with 17 buds. It's a very hardy plant, Fertile, Diploid, Semi-Evergreen and blooms Early-mid season. Seedling #24.98.
PURPLE FROG PRINCE is tall and statley, just as a prince should be, with it's dark purple self, bright lime green throat, and white mid ribs. The bloom is round and 5.5" when recurved, but 10" when not. It's 45" high on an upright strong scape, with 18 buds and three three way branching, blooming Mid season into August. A vigorous semi-evergreen, it's diploid, and fertile both ways.
Tall and graceful, WHISPERING TANGERINE TANGO is a bright, burn your eyes out, orange self with lighter tangerine throat and sepals. An Unusual Form, cascade, it's also a bicolor and very noticeable anywhere in the garden. 7" bloom when recurved, 10" when not it has lightly ruffled petals and sepals. 42" high with 19 buds on 3 way, well spaced branching. Late season, Semi-Evergreen, Diploid. Very fertile both ways. (sdlg #422.98)
(Sayers 2014) Large, Open Flower, 20% Polytepalous
The grandparent for much of my "Whispering" line. WHISPERING VIOLET WATER WALTZ first bloomed in 1996, but was never registered until 2014. Very fertile both ways. A great parent. It throws great lavenders, purples, green throats, narrow petals, unusual forms and bi-colors. Also a good polytepalous parent. 10" Bloom, 45" High, 24 buds on four way branching and reblooms here in zone 6. A great garden plant, increases very well, and very hardy. First released 2015. Seedling #421.97 (Kindly Light x seedling)
Winner of the AHS Junior Citation, WHISPERING WATER NYMPH is a full double that starts blooming mid-late and continues to send up scapes thru August, September, October and even into November. A pale, clear lovely shade of peach/pink, with a slightly darker rose eye, yellow green throat and a ruffled gold edge. The 4" flower has extraordanary substance, on 24" scapes, 27 buds per scape, four way branching, and is a very hardy and vigorous dormant. It's tetraploid, fertile both ways, and is showing itself to be a great double parent. Seedling #55.98 (Released in 2013)
WHISPERING WHIRLING ENCHANTMENT is an Unusual Form with a personality all it's own. It's a crispate with spatulate ruffled petals and quilled, twisted sepals. Blue lavender with dark blue lavender etched eye and large green throat it has a 5.5" bloom, is 34" high, and has 22 buds on four way well spaced branching. Early-Mid season thru August. Semi-Evergreen, Diploid, Fertile both ways.
WHISPERING WHITE TUTU is a Creamy White Double, with ruffled petals that look like a ballerina's tutu. With 5" blooms, on a 31" high scape, it has 14 buds, on three way branching. It's vigorous, blooms Early-Mid thru August, sending up lots of scapes. Semi-Evergreen, Diploid. Fertile both ways. Has been a good parent, throwing clear colored doubles for future introduction.
(sdlg #16.2001)
Winner of Best Seedling at the LIDS Flower Show, WHISPERING WHITE WALTZ is a tall, Unusual Form, cascade. White with yellow green extended throat, it has a 9" bloom, is 40" high, with 18 buds on a graceful, upright, three way branched scape. Blooms Early-Mid season thru August, is Semi-Evergreen, Diploid. Fertile both ways. (sdlg #07.2005)
A lovely tall White with yellow/ green extended throat, WHISPERING WHITE WITCH is one of those daylilies that is always consistent and blooms perfectly every time. Unusual Form, with spatulate petals and quilled sepals, it has 7" blooms, is 46" high, with 27 buds on 3 way branching. Blooming Early-Mid season, it's Extended blooming well into August. Semi-Evergreen and Diploid, it's fertile both ways, and has been a good parent in my Whispering Line. Full sibling to Wicked White Witch.
(sdlg #18.2000) (Released 2013)
WHISPERING WINGED WIZARD is one of my favorite lavenders, with a lime green throat that extending out into a peach toned halo, and then to a blue/purple etched eye. It's 42" tall with a 7" bloom, unusual form, crispate, with pinched petals and quilled, twisted and recurved sepals. A show stopper in the garden, it has 17 buds on three way branching. Semi-evergreen, it blooms Early Midseason into August. A diploid, it's very fertile both ways, and has been a good parent for me. Seedling #12.01 ( ( Seedling x Pricillas Rainbow) x ( Whispering Violet Water Waltz x Seedling) )
WHISPERING WINGS OF AN ANGEL - Has so many petals that they overlap like feathers on an angel's wing. It's a 99%, polytepalous plant that also goes 5 x 5 about 50% of the time. It's one of those poly's that throws a 3 x 3 once a season just to bug me. The blooms are 6" on 3 way branched, 36" scapes. A Diploid, Semi evergreen, and blooms Early mid season. Vigorous and fast increaser. Both pod and pollen fertile.
WHISPERING WOODLAND FAIRY - A very pale, clear, cool color of lavender, with a light lemon yellow throat and ruffled petals. It has 4" blooms, is 36" high, with 29 buds on a well spaced, three way branched scape. This plant makes lovely, graceful mounds of color from Mid season thru August, and is a great garden favorite. It's being registered because of the great demand for it in the garden. It also has been a good parent for me in my pale lavender diploid line. Seedling #94.97 first bloomed in 1997.
WICKED WHITE WITCH is a very exciting high percent, Polytepalous, Unusual Form, with spatulate petals and quilled sepals. White with yellow/ green throat extending out onto petals and sepals, it has a 7" bloom, is 48" high, has 29 buds on four way branching. Blooms Mid season well into August, Semi-Evergreen, Diploid. Fertile both ways. Most buds are quads, but even the tri buds produce polytepalous blooms on this plant. Full sibling to both 'Whispering White Witch' and 'Which Witch is Which. With good culture, it's almost 100% polytepalous and stunning.
WINKY DINK was my first tetraploid Unusual Form. It's spatulate and quilled, is a peach and red reverse bicolor, with red eye above yellow/ green throat, and cream edge. It's a 5" bloom, is 26" high, with 14 buds on three way branching. Mid-Late season, Semi-Evergreen, Tetraploid out of PASSION'S PROMISE. Fertile both ways. Has added a little UF spark to my tetraploid program. Seedling #179.98
