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Height Of Fashion (Huben 2012) 44 EM 4, Pink w'Dark Eye, Dor Dip

MH0403.35 = (Frequent Flyer * MH0207K)
Price: $20 DF

Description

Would you like a tall-and-small, well-ruffled pink to add a little attitude and altitude to your garden? Height Of Fashion lords it over shorter daylilies with a nice 4 branches and 20 buds. Unlike certain award-winning daylilies that I could name, the slender, non-phototropic scapes stand erect and never lean. It's a rapid increaser with splendid foliage. It's something of a bitone, and has a beautiful green throat that stands out.

Height Of Fashion comes from my rebloom lines, though it doesn't rebloom for me. I have grown thousands of rebloom seedlings over the years, and this one stuck out dramatically because it was about twice as tall as any of the other seedlings! But it was not a mistake: not a seed from another cross that jumped into the rebloomers or pollen from another source. Just luck to get such distinctive height.

There are a few things I'd like to improve in future generations: the petals do curl in high heat (and uncurl when they cool) and there is some yellow under the pink. Height Of Fashion is a weak pod parent, but a strong pollen parent. None of its kids have yet developed the same height: perhaps because I haven't had anything else in rebloom lines that tall to breed with. But the kids are showing rebloom and remarkable colors and patterns as you can see below. Notice the edge on MH0930A? Now I can work towards tall-and-small rebloomers as well.

Siblings

• Magenta Kisses (Huben 2013) 28 E Re 3.5, NearWhite w'Magenta Eye, Dor Dip Noc MH0403.12 = (Frequent Flyer * MH0207K) Magenta Kisses has long been a favorite of mine, because it has such beautifully clear colors and such a sharply defined, very green throat. It is one of the spin offs I expected from my rebloom lines, but not directly in my breeding plans because I'm not working for eyed rebloomers. Magenta Kisses is a child of Frequent Flier, which can act as a color clarifier and often passes rebloom. It is a consistent one-time rebloomer here, and could be an important part of anybody's northern rebloom program. Even though it has only three branches and ten buds, that's not important because of the rebloom. Because it is only a modest increaser, I would recommend crossing it with rebloomers that have rapid increase. Held For Increase

Descendents

• MH0835A (Huben ) ? ? Re ?, NearWhite Self, ? Dip (Height Of Fashion * White And Nerdy)

• MH0930A (Huben ) ? ? ?, ? ?, ? Dip (MH0705Z * Height Of Fashion)

• MH0930G (Huben ) 32 E ?, Orchid Bicolor, ? Dip (MH0705Z * Height Of Fashion)

• MH1110A (Huben ) 26 E Re 3.75, NearWhite Polychrome, Dor Dip (Vanilla Stella * Height Of Fashion) I knew Height Of Fashion carried rebloom, but this kid sent up 4 scapes from a single fan! Green throat, ruffles, 2 branches and 10 buds.

Ancestors

• Frequent Flyer (Kendall 2003) 28 E Re 4, Cream w'Lavender Eye, Dor Dip Ext Noc (Millie Schlumf * Brocaded Gown) F2 An awesome continuous rebloomer, with airy, well-branched scapes. It is also an amazing breeder, passing rebloom and often taking on the form and clarifying the color of the other parent.

  
  

• MH0207K (Huben ) 20 E 3.5, NearWhite Self, Dor Dip Noc Ext (MH0029R * MH0015.5)

  • MH0029R (Huben ) 24 E 4.5, NearWhite Self, Dor Dip (Boston Symphony * Early And Often)

    • 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

    • 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.

      • Sunny Honey (Millikan 1989) 24 E Re 3.5, Yellow Self, Sev Dip Noc (Stella De Oro * Brocaded Gown)

        • Stella De Oro (Jablonski 1975) 11 E Re 2.75, Gold Self, Dor Dip Fra Ext Noc

          
          

        • Brocaded Gown (Millikan 1979) 26 EM Re 6, Cream Self, Sev Dip Ext (Buttermilk Sky * Sabie)

          • Buttermilk Sky
          • Sabie

      • Sobek 94.12 (Sobek ) 28 E 4.5, Cream Self, Dor Dip (Three Seasons * Tuscawilla Tranquility)

        • Three Seasons (Sobek 1990) 21 EE Re 2.62, Yellow Self, Dor Dip Noc Ext (Suzie Wong * Bitsy)

          • Suzie Wong
          • Bitsy

        • Tuscawilla Tranquility (Hansen 1988) 21 EE Re 5.5, NearWhite Self, Sev Dip Fra Ext (Monica Marie * Ruffled Ivory) * (Monica Marie * Gentle Shepherd)

          
          

  • MH0015.5 (Huben ) 24 E 4, NearWhite Self, Evr Dip (Millie Schlumf * Early And Often)

    • Millie Schlumf (Guidry 1981) 20 EE Re 6, Pink Self, Evr Dip Emo

      
      

    • 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.

      • Sunny Honey (Millikan 1989) 24 E Re 3.5, Yellow Self, Sev Dip Noc (Stella De Oro * Brocaded Gown)

        • Stella De Oro (Jablonski 1975) 11 E Re 2.75, Gold Self, Dor Dip Fra Ext Noc

          
          

        • Brocaded Gown (Millikan 1979) 26 EM Re 6, Cream Self, Sev Dip Ext (Buttermilk Sky * Sabie)

          • Buttermilk Sky
          • Sabie

      • Sobek 94.12 (Sobek ) 28 E 4.5, Cream Self, Dor Dip (Three Seasons * Tuscawilla Tranquility)

        • Three Seasons (Sobek 1990) 21 EE Re 2.62, Yellow Self, Dor Dip Noc Ext (Suzie Wong * Bitsy)

          • Suzie Wong
          • Bitsy

        • Tuscawilla Tranquility (Hansen 1988) 21 EE Re 5.5, NearWhite Self, Sev Dip Fra Ext (Monica Marie * Ruffled Ivory) * (Monica Marie * Gentle Shepherd)