MALAYSIAN MONARCH

"truly possesses what I call 'regal bearing.' Rich in grape-purple tones, this one again has that large chalky watermark that extends nearly half way out onto the petals. There is truly something majestic about this daylily that I really like. And it grows like a weed here."
" a large flat flower which is somewhat triangular and makes a bold statement. The near white watermark jumps out from a bright purple flower."
" an elegant grape/purple flower with a light creamy throat showing chartreuse deep inside."
" is a great purple."
" Great large flowering purple, beautiful eyezone"
" although, must say it melts badly on even 80 deg. days"
"gorgeous blue purple and vigorous!"
" a beautiful purple"
" -another purple, heavy rebloomer here, just love it."
" the Munson mark."
" A true king among daylilies, and the trademark chalk-eye"
" a great showy daylily with its bold wide eye on a beautiful hue of purple"
"one can get lost in the patterns of this cultivar."
" probably the most impressive clump in the garden this year"
" Is perfect here in Virginia, with incredible vigor and reliable, sun resistant purple blooms. Non daylily people buy this plant on sight at triple the price of other plants."

BETTY WARREN WOODS

"this is a landmark yellow that nearly everyone has hybridized with. It has beautiful round form and performs well for me unprotected up here in the north."
"This one is at the top of my list. Beautiful lemon-yellow color, heavy, waxy, form substance, tight ruffling, and an excellent breeder make it not only an excellent garden clump, but also a hybridizer's dream."
" was a tad recalcitrant about getting established in my garden. But after pouting for a while, it really flourished. A beautiful lemon cream yellow with a strong ruffled gold edge, excellent form and branching, and a consistently good opener, BETTY WARREN WOODS is definitely a winner."
" This lovely cultivar grows well for me, and I do think had Bill placed it on the Awards and Honors list the first or second year of its eligibility, it would have probably won for him that Stout Medal, which he has never received. The last time I visited with Bill and Betty, I reminded him that it then was five years overdue and he agreed to nominate the cultivar for the next year's HM candidacy. Though older than some other cultivars against which it will be competing in the future, I think this lemon and cream delicacy is still worthy of high honors."
" is such a quality daylily--even a new-to-daylily person who visited my garden this summer saw it and recognized its superior flower, and wants it."
" can't be surpassed in our garden for number of blooms"
" I love this yellow daylily. It is one my favorites in all of the garden."
"a classic for all times"
"produces good offspring"
" doesn't like our freeze thaw springs, but always puts on a show"
" has beautiful form"
" one of the best yellows and does wonderfully in the Southeastern Gulf Coast."
" who doesn't like this one."
" a superb ruffled yellow that is on the tender side for us but still gives us some beautiful blooms."
" Just plain great!"
" Yellow is my second least favorite color (after gold), but this particular flower is just about perfection. While we don't begin to get the superb branching and bud count which I have observed on this flower while growing at Wimberlyway, we still get a great display from this beauty as long as it is not being disturbed. It tends to have a short sulk after we disturb it, but it has always managed to recuperate nicely."

COURT MAGICIAN

"This one also did very well in Lexington, Kentucky. Like the one above, it provides the added pleasure of rebloom here."
" This one I once voted for the Stout Medal, on its first year of eligibility. Though I have dug and divided my clump several times, it still holds a show spot in my garden. I like its deep lavender-purple color and its chalky watermark, and it is a strong grower. It has a form which among the tetraploids of the late Eighties showed a continuing refinement."
" not for itself, but for it's use as a parent. CM is in the background of so many of my favorite hybridizing plants. "
" Still another watermarked Munson purple. It carries a white edge that it passes on making it a parent of some of the finest modern purples on the market today."
" would probably have to rank at or near the top. It does extremely well in our garden and is beautiful besides."
" Love the color combination of purple, chalky watermark and yellow throat. Grow this next to a yellow daylily. Reblooms. "
" also new this year but it bloomed - very nice and impressive."
" For all of the reasons others have given."
" Survives Nebraska winters well."
"a great purple with a wonderful eye, very special, just love it."
" My favorite clear lavender still. Another great breeder as well."
" love the light edging around the eye and petals."
" love that lavender eye; registered as an ev. but performs like a dormant for us."
"Simply has not been explored enough in hybridizing"
"was Bonnie's favorite daylily for many years "
" reliable purple, visitors love it."
" an excellent purple with a chalky eye zone. It is sunfast, clear and bright. Easily fertile, it has good bud count. The plant is healthy and the foliage stays green throughout the season. It is both hardy and vigorous."

HIGHLAND LORD

" Munson 83, 22 Mla, 5 sev. Mahogany red tet is what the description says, but that does not even begin to say what a beautiful daylily this is Saw it at Region 2 Madison, WI, and 'had to have it' and am glad it lives here. It was one of the 'bus daylilies,' but I was not fortunate enough to receive it; so, I traded with Bill and Gail Johannes of the Metropolitan Columbus DS for it."
" A beautiful red double with a gold wire-like edge. As someone else on the Robin said...a double before its time."
" is one of the finest doubles in my gardens (and I dearly love doubles). I cannot praise this daylily highly enough. In my view, it is the standard for red doubles. The phrase 'before its time' may be over-used and trite, but it certainly applies to HIGHLAND LORD. A strong increaser, vigorous, well-branched, and floriferous, HIGHLAND LORD is a deep velvety red with a pale yellow edge on the crimped inner petaloids. It doesn't bloom 100% double for me, but that's OK. Even when it produces the occasional single bloom, it's still gorgeous."
" Red Double, just wonderful here. Has clarity. Blooms better with more care and fertilizer (alfalfa pellets). Just love it."
" 1983 tetraploid double late bloomer"
" a lovely red double that has done quite well here."
" Elegant red double with a great form. "
" wonderful red double with gold edge"
" probably in the top five any day you ask me"
" what can I add to what has been said already."
" A gold edged red double tet. Way ahead of it's time."
"great when gold edge shows up"
" loads of perfect blooms, consistently double here"
" Just traded for it but have seen it in many gardens and had it on my must have list."

KATE CARPENTER

"one I wanted for years and the popularity poll winner in Region 7 about 5 years ago. By the time the price came down I wanted BETTY WARREN WOODS more (:->)."
" grows under two ornamental cherry trees and fights for light, water and nutrients and does just fine."
" This color and form of this one, and the consistency of performance make it a perfect garden plant. It's only flaw is that it is top branched and the blooms tend to crowd at times. It's offspring are many and have often gotten away from the top-branching."
" a creamy pink blend. An all around beautiful flower. "
" A fine performer in Region 9"
" A gorgeous pink that just blooms and blooms"
" (just a hair away from being a Stour Medal winner)"
" lovely pale cream pink"
"always big blooms and so pretty."

CAMEROONS

" a beautiful, clear claret"
" because it so distinctive, and beautiful."
" has been a favorite five since I first got it"
" I've only seen it in pictures and added it to my garden this year "
" Love that unusual color and the twisted sepals remind me of a pinwheel. Reblooms."
" fun form and bold colors"
"wine red twisty thing"
" wine red with a chalky wine eye and a lime green throat"
" because of the wonderful exotic form it has itself and then passes along to it's offspring"
" a strong wine purple with a distinctive chalky-pink watermark. The narrow, twisting petals/sepals are intriguing, giving it an exotic appearance. In my gardens I like to group several Munson cultivars together. I find that the intricate eye and throat patterns, as well as the clear base colors, complement each other well. I have CAMEROONS planted with ELIZABETH ANN HUDSON, HIGHLAND CRANBERRY, and PANACHE. This is a wonderful Munson quartet that provides great visual impact."
"super -hybridize with it. Have a seedling that may be registered someday, Red self, reblooming, just love it."
" one of my top ten daylilies (of 550). It doesn't fade and never turns brown or gray like some purples. Or melt. It is superb! "
"Wine/purple with chalky eyezone. Love the way it opens differently each day. Throws unusual forms also."
" I love the twisty sepals on this watermarked purplish red one. It is fertile both ways and produced a fair amount of seed for me this year, mostly in conjunction with narrow tets."
" a wonderful deep maroon that stands tall and regal and with lovely deep color even in the heat of the afternoon sun"
" It gets my vote from the incredible children it breeds. I have seen 3 intros out of it from various breeders, and all were different and unusual. It is an interesting hard to describe color between red and violet. It is fertile both ways. It's offspring CAMEROON NIGHTS is such a great plant and a near spider.Many of Cameroon's children are UF's, and near spiders."

RESPIGHI

"Wine/black with chalky wine eyezone. Blooms and increases here in part shade! Lovely color in the afternoon."
" An early 20th century classical composer. Oops, we are talking daylilies. As most of you know, Bill Munson was famous for his purples. This dark purple may have been my favorite purple this year. Although he may have been surpassed in recent years with some of the Hanson and Moldovan purples, if you were to set the clock back to say 1990, Bill Munson would have ruled tet purples."
" a wonderful wine/purple color, heavy bloomer, just love it."
" another beautiful purple"
" Deep black-purple with purple eye."
" Love the purple - it gets great admiration during garden tours."
"another beautiful purple"
" The watermark makes this one distinctive."

RUSSIAN RHAPSODY

" new to my garden this year but bloomed exactly as the picture showed it would, an incredible color with a great eye."
" under 2 ornamental cherry trees also and fights for light, water and nutrients plus people traipsing along the brick path and refuses to quit."
" The one that got me first interested in Daylilies. I was a great grower for me in Lexington, Kentucky. I brought a division off that plant down here with me, where it also performs great and even reblooms."
" one that everyone knows and needs no introduction."
" Doesn't everyone know this plum purple with deep purple eye?"
" always liked this one."
" loads of scapes, looks fantastic in a clump."