Creating modern hardy hybrid daylillies...
especially for gardens in northern zones!

Daylily: Life of Riley

VERY ARTICULATE, and sharply accentuated!

I had a really hard time deciding if I should introduce this plant. The habit was (and always has been) of the best I could ever hope to achieve in breeding... positively voracious fans, abnormally deep green and wide leaves, scapes to die for. The flower however, is one that I thought would never sell (and hence the plant as well... more people buy based on a flower's mug shot, not it's value as a garden specimen). Finally, in its 4th year as a seedling (a year beyond "do it or not"), I realized there was just NO denying that the flower was so incredibly endearing... because there's SO many of them, and with ridiculously fast double rebloom, the REAL value of this plant was just too fantastic to hold back! 

The clarity of the green throat is visible from afar, especially in numbers... and over months of bloom. The sharpness of the dark red/purple rope edge is 100% consistent, and was actually the final factor in deciding to make it a "GO!". Now that it's been out a few years, I've found it's one I hear a LOT about from people who now have it... they love it just as much! The only "problem" I've heard, is that due to its multiple rebloom scapes, the increase is fast with it. 

Indeed... the "life of Riley" isn't found in buying pretty pictures that yield throw-away daylilies, its with having performance hounds in the gardens that make the ACTUAL experience "worth the work"! Pricing for a new performer like this is rather unbelievable too... only a few $'s more than I saw daylilies from the early 90's selling for at Lowe's just the other day. GET IT - you WON'T be sorry! ;-)