Halloween Darkness

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Halloween Darkness (Huben 2016) 36 EE 4, Melon Self, Dor Dip

MH0735M = (MH0466A * From Darkness Comes Light)
Price: $70 DF

Description

My favorite garden plant among my dark scape introductions. Not quite as dark scaped or pale flowered as its sibling Army of Darkness, and not as tall as sibling Darkness Rising, but with a wonderful saturated melon color that can verges on pumpkin and a green throat. The dark scapes have 4 branches and 33 buds, and there is a strong red stripe on the sepal reverses. Halloween Darkness will add a lot of excitement to your garden because the dark scapes and the first flowers appear very early, preceding Stella De Oro. Gorgeous and distinctive!

Halloween Darkness makes a showy clump when few other things are in bloom, and continues blooming for a long time due to the excellent budcount.

Scape darkness varies in all dark-scaped varieties, but early in the season when nothing else is blooming, Halloween Darkness has eye-catching, graceful, black scapes with excellent branching and budcount.

The color is predominantly melon, but under some conditions and lighting it verges on pumpkin.

The green throat can be seen clearly in this picture.

The red sepal stripes stand out in this picture.

All in all, this is an exceptional plant. A good increaser too.

Siblings

Army of Darkness (Huben 2015) 32 E 4.25, Melon Polychrome, Dor Dip Ext
MH0735X = (MH0466A * From Darkness Comes Light)
An enormous breakthrough in dark scape breeding! This first dark-scaped melon has entirely dark scapes, 4 branches and 27 buds, long branches, and a strong red stripe on sepal reverse. The flowers are not fancy, but they are a distinctively colored light melon with cream tints, yellow green throat and yellow and green veins. I've used this one very heavily in my breeding program.
$50 DF

Darkness Rising (Huben 2016) 54 EM 4, Yellow Self, Dor Dip
MH0971X = (From Darkness Comes Light * MH0466A)
A sulphur-yellow with a green throat, red markings on the backs of the sepals, and the best TALL dark scapes I've ever seen, with 5 branches and usually 23 buds. However, it frequently bud builds with up to 9 buds per branch, and I've seen 37 buds on some scapes. The darkness of the scapes persists longer than many other dark scape daylilies. It's a rapid increaser. The only fault is that it's yellow, instead of the white I eventually want. Darkness Rising should carry melon, meaning that you could leave the yellow behind in half the offspring in the next generation. This is from an excellent cross that gave me 3 introductions.
$30 DF

Descendents

No descendents.

Ancestors

MH0466A (Huben ) 36 E, Yellow Self, Dor Dip
(Sir Blackstem * Boston Symphony)
An F1 between dark scapes and white. It's neither, but throws dark scapes and melon.
- Sir Blackstem (Hager 1988) 24 E Re 2.5, Yellow Bicolor, Evr Dip Ext
  ((Pizza * (sdlg * Raindrop)) * Gold Thimble)
  The darkest-scaped registered daylily.
  - (Pizza * (sdlg * Raindrop))
  - Gold Thimble
- Boston Symphony (Reilly 1998) 30 E 3.5, NearWhite Self, Dor Dip
  (Swiss Mint * Gentle Shepherd)
  - Swiss Mint (Reilly 1994) 27 EM 5.87, NearWhite Blend, Dor Dip Fra Ext
    (sdlg * Joan Senior)
    - seedling
    - Joan Senior (Durio 1977) 25 EM Re 5, NearWhite Self, Evr Dip Ext
      (Loving Memories * Little Infant)
      - Loving Memories
      - Little Infant (Monette 1973) 20 M 4, Cream Self, Evr Dip
  - Gentle Shepherd

From Darkness Comes Light (Huben 2010) 34 E 3.5, Cream Self, Dor Dip Noc
(MH0047I * A Small Multitude)
My next nominee for an award. Cream blooms on inky purple scapes. 25 buds, 4 branches. Exceptional plant habits and performance.

MH0047I (Huben ) 36 EM Re 2.5, NearWhite Blend, Dor Dip
(Aerial * Boston Symphony)
- Aerial (Sobek 1985) 34 M 2.5, Gold Self, Dor Dip
  (Corky * Purity)
  - Corky (Fischer 1959) 34 M 3.5, Yellow Self, Dor Dip
    (sdlg * Mignon)
    - seedling
    - Mignon (Stout 1941) 40 EM Re 2.5, Yellow Self, Dor Dip Ext Noc
  - Purity (Traub 1949) 45 ML 4, Yellow Self, Dor Dip Fra
- Boston Symphony (Reilly 1998) 30 E 3.5, NearWhite Self, Dor Dip
  (Swiss Mint * Gentle Shepherd)
  - Swiss Mint (Reilly 1994) 27 EM 5.87, NearWhite Blend, Dor Dip Fra Ext
    (sdlg * Joan Senior)
    - seedling
    - Joan Senior (Durio 1977) 25 EM Re 5, NearWhite Self, Evr Dip Ext
      (Loving Memories * Little Infant)
      - Loving Memories
      - Little Infant (Monette 1973) 20 M 4, Cream Self, Evr Dip
  - Gentle Shepherd

A Small Multitude (Huben 2010) 44 EM 2.5, Gold Self, Dor Dip Noc
(Corky * Early And Often)
Gold Self. Tall and Small. Minute, species-like spatulate flowers on tall, well-branched scapes. Extraordinary breeder.

Corky (Fischer 1959) 34 M 3.5, Yellow Self, Dor Dip
(sdlg * Mignon)
- seedling
- Mignon (Stout 1941) 40 EM Re 2.5, Yellow Self, Dor Dip Ext Noc

Early And Often (Huben 2001) 26 E Re 4, Peach Polychrome, Dor Dip Ext Fra Noc
(Sunny Honey * Sobek 94.12)
Honorable Mention award 2006! At last: a northern rebloomer that isn't yellow or gold. The heart of my breeding program, producing a great diversity of seedlings, many of them rebloomers. Very rapid increase. Tested and found highly rust resistant (a character passed to most of its kids.) Early And Often was my first introduction, and has lived up to its promise as a continuous rebloomer; it blooms non stop from early July until frost. Some growers report as many as seven sets of scapes per season. Unlike other diploid rebloomers, it is a color clarifier and readily gives up the melon tones in seedlings.