Lewis Daylily Garden Popularity Poll

 

Rich Howard's favorite seedling for 2022 (Just One Bite X Heavenly New Frontier)

John Kulpa Kit Walter seedling. (Paul K. Lewis's choice for best new seedling. I have not seen this in person yet, but hope to one day.)

If you didn't know any better, you'd think I am about to put together a segment on best toothy daylilies for 2022.  BUT I'M NOT.  No, actually I got this great idea from reading a thread on Garden.org posted by Steve Todd with some of his favorite daylilies for the 2022 season.  Got me to thinking....I'm a member of the American Daylily Society and they have a popularity poll each year.  I have voted for years, but all I keep seeing are a lot of really old daylilies.  Now I think they are changing their format a little saying you can't keep voting for the same daylily each year, but unfortunately the members must all grow predominately older intros.  I am always looking to see if any of the cutting edge daylilies are on the list of favorites and I never see any votes for anything new. Well, I still love you American Daylily Society, but I thought I would throw together a small group of people to see what their favorite daylilies were.  I picked people that are growing the newest cutting edged daylilies and have exposure to a lot of daylilies either by virtue of the fact that they re sell or buy a lot. This years panel consists of Steve Todd (Illinois), Rich Howard (Connecticut), Kirsten Hatfield (Ohio), Theresa Maris (Kentucky), Elaine Seifert (Illinois) and myself living in Ohio as well.   Here are a list of their favorites.  I will start with Steve Todd since he gave me this idea. 

I broke them into categories.  So here we go:

Steve Todd's favorite new seedling goes to this Jeff Vitale future intro Guardian of the Blood. WOW!

Steve Todd's favorite new introduction goes to Starman from Rich Howard. This is also Rich Howard's choice for favorite striped introduction.

Steve Todd and Rich Howard's choice for favorite patterned intro went to The Downward Spiral.  Gentlemen, your check is in the mail.  Ha ha. Good choice.

Steve Todd and Rich Howard's choice for favorite toothy intro was John Kulpa's Joel Thomas Polston.  It is lovely.

Rich Howard's favorite introduction from another hybridizer is Yoga Man from Dan Hansen. 

Kirsten Hatfield's favorite introduction from another hybridizer is Wrecking Ball from Dan Hansen.

Kirsten Hatfield had 3 favorite seedlings. I picked this one to show. Wow.

Kirsten had 2 choices for favorite patterned intro.  For tets, it was her Jeepers Creepers and for dips it was this photo, which is FKA JT Polston from Bob Faulkner.

Kirsten Hatfield's favorite toothy introduction is If Pelicans Could Smile from Kimberly McCutcheon. A diploid with teeth. 

Kirsten Hatfield's favorite striped intro is Wacky Wednesday from Elaine Seifert.

Kirsten Hatfield's favorite double introduction is Grit and Grace hybridized by her.

Theresa Maris's favorite seedling (Exotic Starfish X Unknown)

Theresa Maris's favorite introduction this year was Pray Without Ceasing from Karol Emmerich.

Theresa Maris's favorite patterned introduction is Beach Party Pedicure (Gold). This was also Elaine Seifert's choice for favorite patterned daylily. 

Theresa Maris's favorite toothy was Lily Among Thorns from Karol Emmerich.

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Theresa Maris's favorite striped introduction was Yankee Pinstripes from Rich Howard.

Theresa Maris had a 2nd favorite striped daylily.  Wacky Wednesday from Elaine Seifert.  2 votes for Elaine's intro. 

Elaine Seifert's favorite toothy this year was Bloodsport from Mike Holmes.

Elaine Seifert's favorite seedling was seedling #85 (Biting Pumpkins X Sweet Pibble Kisses)

Elaine Seifert also said she is excited about this seedling. (Speaking of Speckled X Northwood Dot Com)

Paul K. Lewis's favorite introduction and favorite toothy introduction for this year was Parker Raymond from John Kulpa.  WOW.  It blew me away.

Paul K. Lewis's favorite striped introduction is Laurelwood's Midsummer Masquerade from Angela Ridder.

Paul K. Lewis's favorite patterned daylily is my future intro, Whisper to a Scream.

Well, there is our mini popularity poll in a nut shell. I liked that were several intros that had more than one vote.  For such a small group I feel you got to see some of the newer daylilies out there and also got to see what's coming in the future.  Maybe the ADS should do some sort of segment on member's seedlings and future intros.  I would be interested to see pictures like that in our journal.  Anyway, hope you are having a nice holiday season.  I hope to begin 2023 with an interview with Mike Grossman and Kathleen Nordstrom.  Stay tuned!

Striped Daylilies from 2022

 

David Evick seedling (Stone Palace Showtime X Seedling B-14) X Stone Palace Streaker (Evick)

Laurelwood's Painting By Number (Angela Ridder)

Striped daylilies have become a category that keeps growing and growing. With so many people out there hybridizing for this look, there have been some really cool advancements.  We are seeing striped daylilies with teeth now and striped double daylilies.  A couple future striped intros sold on the Lily Auction for $2900.  Holy COW!  Striped daylilies are hot! I have a pretty big collection of photographs to share with you, so let's start out with my friend, Angela Ridder:

Laurelwood's Painting By Number (Angela Ridder)

Laurelwood's Peppermint Splash (Angela Ridder)

Half Moon Rising (Angela Ridder)

Angela Ridder 8.5" inch seedling

Angela Ridder seedling (Richard J. Howard X Block Party)

Laurelwood's Candy Cane Splash (Angela Ridder)

Angela Ridder seedling

Paintball Party (Angela Ridder) Photo by Peter Donato

Chillin with my Gnomes (Angela Ridder)

And now some from David Evick:

Stone Palace Streaker (David Evick)

David Evick seedling

David Evick seedling

David Evick seedling

David Evick seedling

                         

                                    And now some from Stuart Kendig:

Stuart Kendig seedling 20-18 (Explosion in the Paint Factory(Howard) X (EITPF X Helena's Fire))

Stuart Kendig seedling 20-11

Whose Broad Stripes (Stuart Kendig)

Who's Broad Stripes (Stuart Kendig)

Thirsty Thursday (Stuart Kendig)

                                                        One from me:

Paul K. Lewis seedling out of Rich Howard (Kendig)

Now we move into the intros and seedlings that originate from the daylily Undefinable (DeVito) in most cases.  The newest development in this look has been the addition of teeth.  Mike Holmes has some incredible future intros and seedlings that he was nice enough to share.  Thanks Mike!

Redefinable (Mike Holmes)

Redefinable close up

Redefinable (Mike Holmes)

Redefinable (Mike Holmes)

Panning For Gold (Mike Holmes)

Panning For Gold (Mike Holmes)

Redefinable seedling (Mike Holmes)

Redefinable seedling (Mike Holmes)

Redefinable seedling (Mike Holmes)

Mike Holmes seedling

Mike Holmes seedling

Striped Action seedling (Mike Holmes)

 

                                     And now a seedling from Jeff Vitale:

 

                                  And now some intros from Nicole DeVito:

Nicole DeVito future 2023 intro

N is for Nichole (Nicole DeVito)

Nicole DeVito 2023 future intro

                  And now some from Valentina Gripas from Kherson, Ukraine

Valentina Gripas seedling

Valentina Gripas seedling

Valentina Gripas seedling

                             And now the amazing program of Rich Howard!

Starman (Rich Howard)

Rich Howard seedling (Sunny with a chance of wine X Starman)

Sunny with a chance of Wine (Rich Howard)

Rich Howard seedling (Colorful Chaos Princess Leia (Bush) X Blame it on the Rain (Harris))

Rich Howard seedling

True Sadness (Rich Howard)

Rich Howard seedling (Cactus Black X (TPS X TYPS))

                    And now some from my friend, Dave Mussar from Canada

Dave Mussar seedling (Spots Before My Eyes X Undefinable)

Dave Mussar seedling (Beholder X Undefinable)

Dave Mussar (Explosion in the Paint Factory X Wacky Wednesday)

Dave Mussar seedling (Flying Trapeze X Wacky Wednesday)

Dave Mussar seedling (True North My Heart X Explosion in the Paint Factory)

Dave Mussar seedling (Undefinable X Dandelion Fluff)

Dave Mussar (Clear Conscience X Explosion in the Paint Factory)

Dave Mussar seedling (Lady Barbara X Wacky Wednesday)

       

                                 And now some from Judy Sparrow Sweeney

Addie's Raspberry Splash (Judy Sparrow Sweeney)

Sheherazade (Judy Sparrow Sweeney)

Alice's Paintbox (Judy Sparrow Sweeney)

Sonja's Tiki Party (Judy Sparrow Sweeney)

                         And now some assorted other hybridizer's seedlings:

Paul Van Mechelen seedling

Paul Van Mechelen seedling

Robert Scott seedling 2267

Undi Pants (Licia Smith Babb)

Steve Todd seedling

Shallow Ford's Pseudo Melanistic (Larry Grace/ Tabitha Gilyard) Photo by Steve Todd

Andromeda Galaxy (Chad Bush)

Grogu (Chad Bush)

Now to one of my favorite categories of striped daylilies.  Striped sepals.  Usually found on purple backgrounds, but I know of some seedlings in this category are emerging in other colors.  Steve Todd started this style of breeding with his intro, Clown Pants.  From Clown Pants many very cool seedlings and intros have emerged.  Let's begin with Steve's Clown Pants, followed by some of his AWESOME seedlings: 

Clown Pants (Steve Todd)

System of Equations (Steve Todd)

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling 

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling. I love everything about this one!

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

And there have been some intros from other hybridizers with this look:

Just Clowning Around (Dave Mussar)

Jeff Vitale seedling

Wallingford Flame Thrower (Rich Howard)

Laurelwood's Purple Cabana (Angela Ridder)

Well, there you have it.  I probably could have divided that segment up into two parts and might do that next year.  It seems each year there are more and more striped seedlings and intros. This category of daylilies has gotten very popular.  I know there are some hybridizers that I may have forgotten and I apologize.  It wasn't personal.  I just got such a huge amount of photographs that I had to stop at some point.  I hope to include more in this segment next year and the looks continue to evolve.  Not sure what is up next, but I have a new idea that I may try out.  Check back in.  Thanks for stopping by.