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

Daylily: I'm Gonna Getcha!

LOOK OUT!!!... this beast is TOTALLY gonna GETCHA!!!!

YES!... yet another MAJOR installment to my "Giants" here!!! This megabeast has the most saturated DEEP red yet! TRULY a MARAUDER in the gardens!!!

If you have eyes (and I really hope ya do, they're quite handy things), then I'm hoping you can see (in clump photo) why this plant nearly scared the crap outa me as a mere seedling clump!!! I mean... as I watched this scary beast start out as a WICKEDLY fat and robust dormant in the Spring, the "from another world" nature of the scapes truly blew my mind! They just keep growing, and growing, and branching, and bifurcating... until just when you're not expecting anything else could possibly FREAK you OUT, the dang thing BLOOMS! ... and YIKES!!! MASSIVE and RICH dark red blooms are really enough to make ya wanna scream... but that bright yellow midrib just smacks ya 'round even MORE!!! There's no doubt, this is one... is a downright SCARY... MONSTER of a daylily!!!

This whole scenario has worked out SO well, 'cuz I reeeeeeally wanted to let Francis & Genni Kleckner know just how much I looooooooooved stayin' at their place (in Muscoda, WI) for a whole week in the Summer o' 2019... to help 'em with the AHS Nat'l Convention held there in July. They helped me when we had one here in '14, so it was the least I could do... but boy oh boy, did we have some FUUUUUN in Badgerland!!! F&G have two sons (John and Jake), and 4 grandkids already. They're ALL a TOTAL hoot! John and his wife (Katie) have a boy named Jackson, who'd just turned 2 before I got there. There was a lot of work to get done for the garden tour, and even though little Jack was (in general) the "shy type"... there was just somethin' about the little bugger's attitude that just BEGGED... to be chased! He was hiding behind his Mom's legs and cautiously peeking around at me as we were going over plans the first day in the garden, and the urge was just irresistible... I curled up my fingers like a marauding monster up over my head, and declared... "IIIIIIIIII'm... gonna GETCHA!!!"! You guys shoulda SEEN those little blue eyes suddenly become HUGE, just before solidly declaring "NO you WON'T!!!". Well... the race was on, and stomping feet as I monstered on after him from one end of the garden to the other (and beyond, rest assured!) just made him squeal all the more. It pretty much went on for the ENTIRE week, and oddly enough, NEITHER of us ever seemed to tire from all the FUN!!! I've put a few pics of the little heathen above, so you can see the varmint for yourselves. In the one of us together, you can tell he's pretty dang ticked... 'cuz I CAUGHT 'IM, the little rat!!!

Update 2021: Since I sent a clump of this new hottie to Francis & Genni last year, Jack got to see it for HIMSELF! Genni snapped a pic, and I couldn't help but add it here this year. Even though he'd grown (amazing how kids do that, ain't it?!), this beast was still able to GET 'IM! WOO HOOO!!!

2022: I'm very limited on these this year.