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

Daylily: Little Miss Lucy

Many of us have seen what's called "midrib cresting" occur as an anomaly amongst our daylily blooms (petaloids emerging from the center stripe along the 3 front petals)... usually happening on just one or two petals though, and never being consistent. This form was so rare when I came up with it, that classification for it didn't exist.  It does now though (2022)... known as an "Unusual Form - Cristate".

When this flower started blooming in the seedling beds however, it not only crested on all its petals... but the frequency was amazing! It will bloom single on initial blooms, but is fully crested on later blooms (and rebloom) ~75%. As if this isn't reason enough to get this plant out for all to see, the plant habit itself is of the very best one can hope for in a daylily... hardy dormant foliage, nice tall scapes where each lateral branch has its own terminal "Y", and very fast rebloom!

2022: I've not offered this plant for the past 7 years, and just dug my display clump so that folks could garner a bit for themselves.  Priced low, as a novelty plant... though certainly a great bridge for breeding, if ya like small flowers that do weird things!