Background history:

'Caribbean Whipped Cream' is a dormant introduced in 1995 by Talbott.

It has earned the following AHS awards:
Honorable Mention: 2000

This plant can be found in our Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Caribbean Whipped Cream') .

Please join in, if you own this plant! We would love to know more! I award an acorn for performance information posted to this thread.



Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Caribbean Whipped Cream')

I grew several of Dave Talbott's daylilies back around the time I first joined AHS. Back in those days, most daylily hybridizers had paper catalogs and if you joined AHS, you'd get a lot of paper catalogs. Dave was in FL ( northern part of the state, I believe) and he specialized in big flat faced blooms. Not knowing any better and growing my garden in those days, I ordered many award winners, going by AHS 's AM and HM winners lists. He sent me some of his registrations as bonuses and I ordered several too. Many of his used the prefix Caribbean. Caribbean Golden Galleon was a favorite, along with Caribbean Whipped Cream. Eventually, the very short scapes and disproportionately large blooms bothered me to the point that I got rid of it. No one who sees my garden now would believe that back in those early days, the garden consisted mostly of huge flat faced "bagel" daylilies.
Caribbean Whipped Cream


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I grew this one, twice. Beautiful flower, but very short. I had it one season, it bloomed and died. I loved the flower and got it again, hoping the scapes were short because it was nor mature. The next one was short, but it died again. I know others who grow it and does well in my zone, but I did not try it again.

My experience with it has been largely good. Yes, it has a short scape, but the flower is good enough to pair up with other plants with much higher scapes. I noticed that the flowers tend to open poorly in very humid weather. There are fewer flowers than I might like. But for all that, it holds up very well to Wisconsin weather, and that's why I keep it.