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This is being sold by Greenwood Garden as 'Frequent Violet'. Their website has the notation "(R. Figge)" after the name 'Frequent Violet' in their plant list. I asked them if this ('Frequent Violet') was the same plant as 'Rosalie Figge', and they said "yes".

This daylily is being sold by Greenwood Daylily Gardens, in S. CA, with the notation of "PPAF" next to the name.

Given that I have been unable to find an actual patent issued for this plant (although I did find patents for other daylilies hybridized by Matthew Kaskel), I strongly suspect that no patent was ever issued.

This dwarf Shasta Daisy has small flowers and an unusually long bloom season. When I had it previously, it bloomed from March into October in my Zone 9 garden near San Jose, CA. I recently reacquired it (gophers got it previously and it is hard to find). It is a great front-of-the-border plant.

This is an unusual tree, in that the color of the blooms seems to differ, based on how far away you are. From a distance, when the tree is in bloom, the flowers appear somewhat lavender or lilac. However, if you examine the flowers close-up, they appear more pinkish.

This tree has also sent out suckers the past two years. It is not aggressive in suckering, however. (And it may have been only one sucker, incompletely dug out when it first appeared.)

We have a creek (the city calls it a drainage ditch, but that is not how it shows on maps) going through our yard. There is at least a little water in it (a few inches deep) year round; when it rains in the winter, there is higher water rushing through.

I have this iris planted right in the creek, up against the creek bank. The iris gets way too much shade, and such light as it does get is mostly filtered, but the patch is slowly growing and it does bloom for me. Doubtless it would do better with more sun, but I think it's a testimony to this iris that it is blooming and multiplying in its location.

I just reviewed both of my comments... regarding color, one says "lemon yellow", the other "golden yellow".... possibly due to different parts of the year (with or without cold nights). This daylily does start blooming here in mid-April (sparse bloom, low scapes - maybe these are old rebloom scapes?). The bloom color is definitely NOT what I would call "gold"; it is clearly yellow, of whichever sort.

The main show (taller scapes) begins the first week in May, and goes into early June. It is June 3rd here and there are still many buds, but the clump (which has been in bloom all May) is clearly past peak bloom. This leads me to also question the "Midseason" designation; I think it is (at least) an Early Midseason as it starts bloom well before 'Pink Fanfare' (registered as an EM), which does not begin bloom here until after mid May.

Sadly, I just discovered rust on this plant today (confirmed by passing the "tissue test"). One of its parents is BILL NORRIS, which is noted as being rust susceptible, so that is probably at least partly the source for its susceptibility. (The other parent is a seedling.) I have submitted a proposed change to list it as being susceptible to rust.

(I cannot reasonably or objectively give it a number evaluation, as at this time there are no other daylilies in my garden which are exhibiting rust which I can compare it to. (I do have several daylilies which are known to be rust susceptible, including ARCTIC LACE, VICTORIAN LACE, and WHITE WOLF.) It is in a spray-irrigation type of situation (which receives partial shade), so that is perhaps a contributor. Several leaves have rust pustules on them.)

I also proposed that the color is yellow; that is how it presents in my garden (a golden yellow, if you will) - not gold (as, for example, in MARY'S GOLD).

The flower scapes here are higher than the registered 15"; I have measured them from 21" to 25".

The blooms are diamond dusted and iirc appear to be extended. The foliage is narrow and somewhat grassy.

In my garden, there are two bloom periods: an early midseason bloom (end of May into June) and later again in the late summer/early fall.

The flowers on this plant are an older form (i.e. not very ruffled) but they are large blooms and have great, standout golden color. This is an "oldie but goody" if you don't mind the lack of rebloom.

I would say that the color of the blooms on this cultivar is a medium or lemon yellow, rather than gold. (This is in Saratoga, CA.) Sometimes there is a faint suggestion of a rose blush on the ends of the petals.

It can be a little difficult to set pods on this plant, as the pistils are often blunt or kinked.

Despite what the AHS database says, going by its hybridizing behavior, STARRY DAY is a diploid, not a tetraploid. This was determined many years ago by various members of the snail mail polytepal (as the term was back then) round robins. I personally have confirmed this for myself, by various crosses against known diploids. (I still have a polymerous seedling which I have kept for many years, whose parentage involved STARRY DAY, and also the diploids SPARKLING OPAL and FOUR STAR.)

To compound and propagate the error, If you look at the three child plants listed for STARRY DAY, all of THOSE are also (imho) incorrectly registered as tetraploids. If you look at the other parents involved in the crosses - GIVE ME EIGHT, PURPLE PETALOID, FUCHSIA FOUR - those are all definitely diploid.

STARRY DAY's hybridizing behavior has been known for many, many years. I am surprised that its designation as "tetraploid" still persists in the AHS database - and now is unfortunately being propagated in this database.

This plant frequently produces polymerous blooms, sometimes 4x4, sometimes imperfect or incomplete (3x4, or 4x3). It is difficult to set pods on (pollen fertility is unclear). In my garden, it blooms E or EM, and sometimes will rebloom in the fall.

The percentage of polymerous blooms seems to be environmentally sensitive. At most I have seen about 50% polymerous blooms (at my old house). For the past several years (present house) the poly % has been less than that.