Best of broken colored daylilies for 2025

 

Yenok's Magic Trick (Yenok's Daylilies) Notice that there are three colors in this bloom.

Shawn's Favorite (Yenok's Daylilies)

The 2025 daylily season brought some really interesting advances to the broken colored daylily category. More and more I am seeing teeth on a lot of the seedlings and intros the hybridizers are bringing out.  And for the first time (if you look at the top picture, Yenok's Magic Trick) there is more than one color in the streaking.  A huge breakthrough if you ask me.  I am very impressed with all these hybridizer's programs featured.  Here are some more of the fascinating broken colored daylilies from this past year:

Purple Tequila Sunrise (Yenok's Daylilies)

Stuart Kendig seedling

Don't Stop The Carnival (Tabatha Gilyard 2025)

Valentina's Legacy (Dave Mussar)

Dave Mussar seedling

Dave Mussar seedling 

Dave Mussar seedling

Mike Georges seedling

Starman(Rich Howard) Photo courtesy of Theresa Maris

Unpredictable (Rich Howard)

Fire Rainbow (Rich Howard 2026)

Riverbend Spines (Mike Holmes 2026)

Guardian of the Blood (Jeff Vitale)

N Case You Forgot (Nicole DeVito 2025)

Ron Reimer seedling (this is a diploid, which is rare.)

Valentina Gripas seedling 

Valentina Gripas seedling

Valentina Gripas seedling

Valentina Gripas seedling 

David Evick seedling (Stone Palace Daylilies)

David Evick seedling (Stone Palace Daylilies)

Titleist (David Evick)

 

Here are some broken colors in different base colors:

Mr. Moo (Future intro, Peter Donato)

Peter Donato (Future intro, Steve Todd)

Shayna's Clown Corsage (Steve Todd) Photo courtesy of Peter Donato

Last Thing a Squirrel Sees (Steve Todd)

Steve Todd seedling 

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Jump to Lightspeed (Chad Bush 2026 intro)

WOW! As usual I am blown away by all the hybridizer's advancements.  Disclaimer: All the above photos are property of each hybridizer and use without prior consent is prohibited.  I can't wait to see what new break throughs we will see in the broken colored category.  Thanks to all the hybridizers for sharing their work as well.  

Soooo, the 2025 season had a couple breakthroughs for me as well.  I had a good season.  Any time I can see all of my bloom without the deer getting inside my garden is a success.  There was still some minor deer damage, but I think I may have made a discovery about something very common that repels them and I hope to share that information in a later segment.  I don't have as much time as I used to, to post things, but I will do my best. Work takes up a lot of my time and I'm exhausted on the weekends.  I'll do my best.  As always I have videos posted on Youtube.  If you put Lewis Daylily Garden in the search box, all my videos will come up.  Happy Holidays to you all.

Favorite daylily videos from the 2024 season

 

This video from July 14th, 2024 has a lot in it.  Check out Richard J. Howard (Ridder) and Paintball Party (Ridder) in this video.  Spectacular!

This year I got a drone to shoot videos and you can see how nice the quality is in the beginning of this video. 

This video shows some of my future introductions including Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark and Purple Voodoo.

Check out the daylily Paintball Party (Ridder) and my future intro The Last Airbender in the front yard.

Check out my introduction Weekend in Paris in this video.  It is the seedling with a Katydid in the bloom.

Check out some of the toothie daylilies in the above video.  WOW!

This video has a lot to see in it.  Lots on various introductions. 

All these videos were shot in and around peak bloom, so you get to really see all of what I grow here in all it's glory.  2024 was a great season even despite some attacks by the deer on a few nights. I managed to keep them away during the important part of the season and that is what counts.  Looking forward to 2025.  This will be my last post for the season until fall.  Happy gardening. 

Favorite pictures from last season.

 

Lewis seedling out of Prophetic Voice (Emmerich)

Ann Marie Kulpa (John Kulpa)

The summer of 2024 became a battle to try and keep the deer away long enough so I could see my seedlings bloom.  There was a short stretch in the early season where one deer managed to sneak in along my neighbor's deck and snack on some daylilies for a couple nights.  Fortunately I was able to block that gap with some deer netting and the only daylilies that got eaten were some oldies.  Most everything important did bloom and I was lucky to get some nice photos as you can see.  Enjoy the picture show!

Seedling out of Venetian Pools (Pierce)

Lewis future The Last Airbender

Lewis future Snowpiercer

Lewis future Purple Voodoo

Weekend in Paris (Lewis)

Lewis seedling out of Parker Raymond (Kulpa)

Lewis future Rose A. Lewis

Lewis seedling out of James Bond (Kirchhoff)

4 of my favorite striped daylilies. Upper left, Paintball Party (Ridder), Upper right, Richard J. Howard (Ridder) Lower left Mean Streak (Lewis) and lower right, Three Stripes (Boatwright)

It was a fun season and each season is never without it's challenges.  Well, this past January was one of coldest we've had for some time.  I'm happy we are getting closer to the 2025 season.  I've made a couple nice additions in terms of daylilies that I've bought for this spring.  Can't wait to see them bloom here.  If I can keep the damn deer away.  Not sure what I will post next, but stay tuned.  

A visit with our friend, Tadeusz Kotula.

 

Siewka Eli Król (Kotula)

Tadeusz Kotula and some of his lovely seedlings

There are so many great hybridizers over in Europe.  The only way I get to see their work is on Facebook unfortunately.  One hybridizer that I have really enjoyed seeing his pictures is Tadeusz Kotula from Rybnik, Poland.  Tadeusz is 71 years old and is retired.  He has been daylily hybridizing for 15 years and his toothy program is just incredible.  Take a look at some of his intros and seedlings below:

Toruk Makto (Kotula)

Siewka (Kotula) 20-52B ((Hexenbeast x Happy Teeth ) x Dental Delight )

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Pireus -Kotula 2024

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling (Toruk Makto x Leonopteryx Rex)

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling 

Tadeusz Kotula daylily field

Tadeusz not only hybridizes for toothy daylilies, but he also hybridizes for other looks.  Here's some of his incredible seedlings below:

Tadeusz Kotula seedling 18-187B (Sweet Cotton Candy x Maravilla Golden Crown )

Tadeusz Kotula seedling 18-187B (Sweet Cotton Candy x Maravilla Golden Crown )

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula planting his seedlings

I would like to thank Tadeusz Kotula for allowing me to share his program.  What amazing flowers he has created in only 15 years.  I hope to do another segment on Tadeusz in the years to come. All the above pictures are the property of Tadeusz and use without prior consent is prohibited.  Thanks for stopping in.  I hope to do some more posts before the winter ends.  Stay tuned!