Favorite blooms from the 2025 season

 

Lewis seedling out of Prophetic Voice (Emmerich)

Lewis future intro, Pamela L. Matia

The 2025 season was an unexpected surprise.  I wasn't expecting anything overly exciting coming from my seedlings, but boy was I wrong.  There were several seedlings that really blew me away.  There was a 10" seedling that was the biggest bloom in the garden. (Future intro, Megalopolis) Some new blue eyed intros that were really special.  And the seedlings coming from Dr. Frances S. Baker have been really nice.  Here are some of my favorite blooms from the 2025 season.  Enjoy!

Lewis future, Ted Lasso

Bill Wilson (Lewis)

Keebe (Dan Hansen)

Lewis seedling out of Dr. Frances S. Baker

Lewis seedling out of Pray Without Ceasing (Emmerich)

Glowing Orbits (Guy Pierce)

Green Light Go (Guy Pierce)

N Case You Forgot (Nicole DeVito)

Lewis seedling out of Painted Shadows

Merrywick (Di DeCaire) Another lovely patterned intro from Di.

My Heart's Done Time (Mary Baker)

Lewis seedling out of Vampire Academy (Polston)

Lewis future intro, House of the Dragon

Lewis seedling out of Parker Raymond (Kulpa)

Stephanie Leitch (Kulpa) on top and Joel Thomas Polston (Kulpa) on the bottom

Left to right, top: Moldovan seedling S571, Explosion in the Paint Factory (Howard), Megalopolis (Lewis) Left to right, bottom: Zenyatta Mondatta (Lewis), Joel Thomas Polston (Kulpa)

Well, that was some picture show!  It was a really fun season and really gave me drive and motivation for this upcoming season.  Hoping there are more special seedlings to come.  Thanks for visiting my blog.  Here's hoping you are having a nice winter.  

Best of broken colored daylilies for 2025

 

Yenok's Magic Trick (Yenok's Daylilies) Notice that there are three colors in this bloom.

Shawn's Favorite (Yenok's Daylilies)

The 2025 daylily season brought some really interesting advances to the broken colored daylily category. More and more I am seeing teeth on a lot of the seedlings and intros the hybridizers are bringing out.  And for the first time (if you look at the top picture, Yenok's Magic Trick) there is more than one color in the streaking.  A huge breakthrough if you ask me.  I am very impressed with all these hybridizer's programs featured.  Here are some more of the fascinating broken colored daylilies from this past year:

Purple Tequila Sunrise (Yenok's Daylilies)

Stuart Kendig seedling

Don't Stop The Carnival (Tabatha Gilyard 2025)

Valentina's Legacy (Dave Mussar)

Dave Mussar seedling

Dave Mussar seedling 

Dave Mussar seedling

Mike Georges seedling

Starman(Rich Howard) Photo courtesy of Theresa Maris

Unpredictable (Rich Howard)

Fire Rainbow (Rich Howard 2026)

Riverbend Spines (Mike Holmes 2026)

Guardian of the Blood (Jeff Vitale)

N Case You Forgot (Nicole DeVito 2025)

Ron Reimer seedling (this is a diploid, which is rare.)

Valentina Gripas seedling 

Valentina Gripas seedling

Valentina Gripas seedling

Valentina Gripas seedling 

David Evick seedling (Stone Palace Daylilies)

David Evick seedling (Stone Palace Daylilies)

Titleist (David Evick)

 

Here are some broken colors in different base colors:

Mr. Moo (Future intro, Peter Donato)

Peter Donato (Future intro, Steve Todd)

Shayna's Clown Corsage (Steve Todd) Photo courtesy of Peter Donato

Last Thing a Squirrel Sees (Steve Todd)

Steve Todd seedling 

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Jump to Lightspeed (Chad Bush 2026 intro)

WOW! As usual I am blown away by all the hybridizer's advancements.  Disclaimer: All the above photos are property of each hybridizer and use without prior consent is prohibited.  I can't wait to see what new break throughs we will see in the broken colored category.  Thanks to all the hybridizers for sharing their work as well.  

Soooo, the 2025 season had a couple breakthroughs for me as well.  I had a good season.  Any time I can see all of my bloom without the deer getting inside my garden is a success.  There was still some minor deer damage, but I think I may have made a discovery about something very common that repels them and I hope to share that information in a later segment.  I don't have as much time as I used to, to post things, but I will do my best. Work takes up a lot of my time and I'm exhausted on the weekends.  I'll do my best.  As always I have videos posted on Youtube.  If you put Lewis Daylily Garden in the search box, all my videos will come up.  Happy Holidays to you all.