2005 Northern Rebloomer Introductions

Last updated 10/25/07.

Welcome! This year again I have no new introductions, unfortunately. Next year for sure!

Last year I had four new introductions, including one from Stephen Kendall of Bountiful, Utah. I've also got a limited supply of EARLY AND OFTEN, my first introduction in 2001. All five of these are strong northern rebloomers which will rebloom under conditions where even STELLA DE ORO hesitates to rebloom: partial shade, sandy soils, and low heat. JERRY'S WHIRLIGIG is also listed -- it's an unusual form you have to see to believe.

Each introduction has its own web page: follow the links to learn more about them. Ordering information is at the bottom of this page. Order early: I've sold out every year. No rust in my garden yet, for those who wish to avoid it. However, my quarantine is ended. Some plants will be brought into my garden from zone 6 (or lower) gardens that have had rust in the past. I do not think that rust has survived in those gardens, but there is a risk.

Mike Huben (mhuben@world.std.com)

FREQUENT FLIER (Kendall 03) 28 E Re 4, Cream w'Lav. Eye, Dor Dip Ext Noc (Millie Schlumpf * Brocaded Gown) F2 Double fans, $30. Stephen Kendall has bred a fabulous rebloomer! While reminiscent of the eyed SILOAM lines, it sends up three sets of scapes annually for me. While the budcount is not high (averaging 11), the tall, graceful, well-branched scapes hold the recurved blooms in a fountain of non-interfering bloom. The foliage is a clean, deep green, and it has yet to display spring sickness here. It is fertile both ways, and throws strongly reblooming kids. A melon carrier.

TWIST AGAIN (Huben 03) 28 E Re 5, YellowGreen Self, Dor Dip (Cool Spice * Spring Frolic) Double fans, $30. The longest-blooming daylily in my garden. Four years running it has bloomed for 11 weeks on three sets of scapes. The color is a very cool yellow-green that fades in the sun to a remarkable cream and green giving the impression of a cream flower with a green bullseye. There is no other northern rebloomer on the market with this color. It has an excellent budcount of 20 (unusually high for a rebloomer.) The heavily ruffled petals twist differently in every flower, providing lots of motion in this unusual form.

DELICATE LACE (Huben 03) 18 E Re 4, Cream Self, Dor Dip Fra Ext ((Monica Marie * Stella De Oro) * Spring Frolic) Double fans, $30. What an unusual form! Quite orchid-like: any narrower and it would be spatulate. The foliage is truly dwarf, with a flower large enough to surprise. Blooms start out cream, but rapidly fade in the sun to a highly diamond-dusted pearly polychrome. It usually blooms two sets of scapes for me, but more in other people's gardens. 8 buds. It throws excellent reblooming kids of all shapes and sizes, and carries melon.

FLOWERS OF SULPHUR (Huben 03) 20 E Re 4.25, Yellow Self, Dor Dip Vfr Ext ((Monica Marie * Stella De Oro) * Spring Frolic) Double fans, $10. Why another yellow rebloomer? Well, it's a pure sulphur-yellow self, all the way into the throat, much bigger than most others, strongly diamond dusted, opens well, and has a delightful short stature. Only 9 buds (2 more than STELLA DE ORO), but routinely blooms at least two sets of scapes. Breeds rebloomers, and carries melon.

EARLY AND OFTEN (Huben 01) 26 E Re 4, Peach Polychrome, Dor Dip Ext Fra (Sunny Honey * (Three Seasons * Tuscawilla Tranquility)) Double fans, $30. At last: a northern rebloomer that isn't yellow or gold. Blooms 9 weeks for me on three sets of scapes. The heart of my breeding program, producing a great diversity of seedlings, many of them rebloomers. Very rapid increase. Tested (in WV) and found highly rust resistant for two seasons.

JERRY'S WHIRLIGIG (Deschenes 00) 30 L 6, Lavender w'Burgundy Eye, Dor Dip (seedling * Orchid Corsage) Buy JERRY'S WHIRLIGIG directly from the hybridizer: follow the link! This is an "Oh, Wow!" UFO. While registered at only 6 inches, the buds measure 6.5 inches, and the wingspread of the spread out flower is a full 13 inches. It's vigorous, hardy, and fertile both ways: a rarity for such a huge flower. It might well be the widest-petalled cascade form UFO yet. I've been pollinating every bloom, and the seed has been in great demand.

Order now for spring 2005 shipment. $5 shipping and handling per order. Send checks to:
Mike Huben, 27 Winter St., Arlington, MA 02474

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