The new perennial flowers - New Plant Parade '85

Flower & Garden Magazine, Dec-Jan, 1984 by Rachel Snyder

The Brand Peony Farm, Minnesota's oldest nursery (founded 1868), has been sold and relocated from Faribault to St. Cloud, Minn. The new owners, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Lund, purchased it in 1980 and have completed the move over the last three years. This year they introduce a newly registered peony created by Ben Gilbertson of Kindred, N. Dak., "Sioux Chief.' This reliable hybrid has showy, flattish, stiff substanced flowers of medium bright red, at midseason on strong straight 30-inch stems, bright green foliage. Two years ago the Brand catalog first offered five other new originations from Mr. Gilbertson, who is well known in peony circles.

Caprice Farms Nursery's newly introduced "Louise Marx' has historical as well as gardening interest. Hybridized by the late Walter Marx and named for his wife, it is his last peony creation. Walter and Louise Marx were proprietors of a well known perennial nursery in Oregon from 1940 to 1970, and will be remembered by many who gardened dened then. "Louise Marx' peony is a Japanese type; huge long lasting 15-petaled white flowers are mildly fragrant, late blooming, on long 48-inch stems above dark green large foliage.

Daylilies

Daylilies (hemerocallis) are entering the world at a fast pace, just as for several decades, and they keep on improving. More than any other plant, these bring midsummer color to gardens throughout the country.

Klehm announces several tetraploid daylilies newly listed from leading hybridizers. "Bowl of Roses,' created by Nathan Rudolph, is overall blue-pink, with lavender-pink midribs and darker tones in a halo and at edges. Four-inch flowers open in midseason, flat with wide, overlapping, ruffled petals of good substance; they are fragrant, and sunfast on 30-inch scapes; and the plant reblooms. "Cedar Waxwing' by Dr. Robert Griesbach, opens at midseason 5 1/2-inch rounded flowers, orchid pink with a ribbon of lighter hue, crimped along petal edges; a green throat surrounded by gold, all on 27-inch scapes.

"Falcon,' also by Dr. Greisbach, is a late blooming velvety black-red with still deeper zone around the glowing green throat--5-inch flowers on 26-inch scapes. "Chicago Blue Eyes,' another Klehm offering from hybridizer James Marsh, is an early midseason hem opening 5 1/2-inch slightly ruffled flowers, lavender with a bluish cast just above the cream-green throat, borne at 24-inch height.

Stanley E. Saxton of Saxton Gardens announces three new daylilies from his own breeding work: "Sylvia Ann,' blooming late, in July-August--has 4 1/2-inch coral pink ruffled flowers with green throats, on well-budded 24-inch scapes. "Laura Lace' has lots of ruffling in its 5-inch recurved flowers. Light salmon pink basic color deepens in the edges; scapes rise 25 inches. "Parade View,' showy in July, opens medium-large yellow flowers with bold dark purple eye or halo. Similar dark zones on sepals create a multi-eyed effect--the halo extending deep into the throat. Some ruffling ornaments this 28-inch high flower.