ADENA HEMS - the daylily introductions and hybridizing program of Mike De...

[...] !), then blooming well and reblooming on totally neglected, weedy, overgrown clumps this past summer, this one rejected every attempt I made to pass it by.  My friend Carl Harmon noticed and [...]

[...] " tall, close to 7" in size, had 2 laterals as first year seedlings in the garden this past summer.  You can see how AKA adds, ruffled refinement, edges and enriches color. The left hand [...]

[...] changed after I saw a few of the seedlings shown below...yellow crosses were made this past summer and will be again in the greenhouse this winter...many will feature LUNAR EMPIRE as one [...]

[...] I didn't do much photography in the diploid beds this past summer - many of the interesting seedlings had bloomed the year before so I already had photos (shown [...]

[...] REALLY got something! This is a first year seedling growing in a terrible spot...it's got 3 lateral branches, is fertile both ways and has instant rebloom...and is going to get used like crazy this [...]

[...] IOWA LADY 2) Diploid, dormant, early mid season bloomer, 22" scape, 4.5" blooms, 2 lateral branches,  around 20-22 buds, very strong rebloom here (3 sets of scapes on established plants)... [...]

[...] /dormant, EM, 2-4 lateral branches, 22-35 buds, EMO, fertile both ways.  Color is primary red to medium ruby/rose red and there [...]

[...] LADY 2) $50 Diploid, dormant, early mid season bloomer, 22" scape, 4.5" blooms, 2 lateral branches,  around 20-22 buds, very strong rebloom here (3 sets of scapes on established plants)... [...]

[...] are difficult. POSITIVES: Hardy, vigorous, well branched scape, beautiful icy clean colors, instant rebloom, great breeder in all colors. See the image immediately below at the left of EODAD with a [...]

[...] as the previous sibling, but a 6" bloom on a 28" scape, 3 laterals, and instant rebloom makes it worthy of my attention...it's easily fertile, too. GLORY IN RED x BELLE OF [...]

[...] stippling overlaying the entire bloom.  There are teeth on the edge, 3 lateral branches and instant rebloom.  Stippling often produces blooms with weak, even ugly colors - not this one! (NO BLUE [...]

[...] ; tall, have fertile, 6" blooms, have 3-4 way lateral branching with lots of buds and instant rebloom. The left hand bloom is FORESTLAKE RAGAMUFFIN.  The two bottom seedlings are excellent [...]

[...] x MA - crossing it to IDA added size to all of the seedlings in the cross and intensified the green throat. (CARIBBEAN WILBUR CAUSEY x MARILYN APPS) X (DIANE BREMER x CONNIE CAN'T HAVE IT) 1 I made [...]

[...] sharks teeth, horns, knobs and spicules surround the petal edges, topped off by a yellow to green throat. NEGATIVES:  Early season blooms may show some insect damage, branches could be spaced a [...]

[...] consistent enough to register it as such.  Color is a saturated Chinese Red, with yellow to green throat. Limited. (Wren’s Song x It Is Finished).  $80, double fans ABNEGATION – My hybridizing [...]

[...]  The knobby picotee edge really 'bleeds' and the color is in your face beautiful with the green throat setting it off so well.  As a first year seedling this has 2 laterals and instant [...]

[...] to Mike Derrow.  We will do our very best to assure that all plants will be at least double fans.  If they aren’t, I will reduce the price and send a refund, but will also contact you [...]

[...] to Mike Derrow.  We will do our very best to assure that all plants will be at least double fans.  If they aren’t, I will reduce the price and send a refund, but will also contact you [...]

[...] mushroom compost and double ground hardwood mulch.  I can get 12 large tetraploid plants (double fans) in each bed and 15 smaller tets or diploids. Here is what they look like.  It sure is [...]

[...] cultivar.  Registration had been completed and all plants were dug, divided, lined out as double fans in late August and early September.  Almost all offerings are limited this year with the [...]

[...] increase, semi-evergreen - color is a violet purple with a darker royal purple eye and picotee edge of the same royal purple inside the white outer border. Very ruffled and reflexed...this will [...]

[...] with a fine serrated gold edge, screaming orange petal color with a scarlet red eye and picotee edge - amazing!  The pod parent was a pretty, mid-sized, well branched red that faded in the [...]

[...] (much taller on rebloom), 5.75" blooms, fertile both ways, very strong rebloomer here, picotee edge has 3 colors, ends of petals have narrow gold braid. $100 for a double fan plant - limited... [...]

[...] (much taller on rebloom), 5.75" blooms, fertile both ways, very strong rebloomer here, picotee edge has 3 colors, ends of petals have narrow gold braid. TTWB is proving to be a tremendous [...]

[...] ...we are offering a discount price of $200 and free shipping if both ALSO KNOWN AS and ADENA ALIAS are purchased as a package, while single plant purchase prices for ALSO KNOWN AS (shown below) [...]

[...] Adena Imposter $60 Adena Impresario $60 Adena Inferno $60 Dappled Dynamo $60 Also Known As $100 Adena Alias $75 The Tribble With Blue $50 Adena Babs $30 Charlie Dale $40 Lunar Empire (clump) $50 Pink [...]

[...] Blizzard $60 Also Known As $75 Sometimes Shadows Speak $80 Empire Of Dawn And Dusk $100 Adena Alias $75 The Tribble With Blue $50 Adena Inferno $40 Dappled Dynamo $40 Adena Babs $30 Charlie [...]

[...] wonderful this year, especially those out of RED HAT DIVA, ARROGANT BASTARD and our own TRANSYLVANIAN TANGO and the dips out of ADENA INFERNO. Whites in both ploidys continue to show promise with our [...]

[...] the pollen parent while the tetraploids have a wide range of parentage genetics including TRANSYLVANIAN TANGO, RANDY STEPHENS, ALSO KNOWN AS, ROSY SPIKETAIL, REASON FOR TREASON, IT IS FINISHED and [...]

[...] toothy edged seedlings that were in the seedling beds this past summer.  RANDY STEPHENS, TRANSYLVANIAN TANGO, HEARTBEAT OF HEAVEN, GNASHING OF TEETH, ROGUE, SPINY SEA URCHIN, ROSY SPIKETAIL and other [...]

[...] , rebloom (usually instant), opens well but not an EMO, fertile but pods take persistence TRANSYLVANIAN TANGO has stunning ruby red petals, a faint lighter watermark, and lots of white sharks teeth, [...]

[...] of the diploid seedlings that bloomed this year while the following two sets of six are tetraploid seedlings. [...]

[...] Below are some of the tetraploid seedlings that bloomed this past summer with a short blurb about each one... Above is a portion of [...]

[...] put up a huge, well branched scape and then an instant rebloom scape – one fan put up 4 rebloom scapes at every point on the compass!  The blooms are more triangular than round but show the [...]