Best of broken colors (striped sepals) 2024

 

Clown Pants (Steve Todd)

Clown Pants seedling (Peter Donato)

Steve Todd told me that he made the cross for Clown Pants in 2010, it bloomed the first time in 2013 and in 2015 it really started showing itself including it's teeth. Since then this look has taken off and a lot of hybridizers have introduced daylilies with this look all having Clown Pants somewhere in their parentage.  It's a fun category of daylilies and I love to feature it on the blog.  Here are more photos:

Steve Todd seedling 

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

And now here are some intros that have Clown Pants (Todd) in their parentages:

Laurelwoods Vintage Christmas (Angela Ridder) Photo by Bill Hurt

Yenok Kilimdzhyan seedling

Clown Line Dancing (Todd-Gilyard 2024)

Just Clowning Around (Dave Mussar)

Wow! What a great group of daylilies!  Special thanks goes to Steve Todd for taking the time to share his seedlings with me. Thanks also to all who shared their photographs with me.  All photographs are the property of each person and use without prior consent is prohibited.  Working on my other best of broken color segment and this year looks especially promising.  Should be up in a couple of weeks.  Stay tuned.  Thanks.