Background history:

'Leprechaun's Lace' is a dormant introduced in 1983 by Hudson.

This plant can be found in our Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Leprechaun's Lace') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Leprechaun's Lace')

Just a tidbit of information.
My understanding is that Hudson is the maiden name of Elizabeth Salter. That should mean that daylilies registered by Hudson were registered by Liz Salter while those registered by Hudson-B were registered by Betty Munson Hudson.

I have grown 'Leprechaun's Lace' for more than 25 years. Some of that time was in a zone 6/5 garden and some in my current zone 5/4 garden (21 years). It has been perfectly hardy. In some years it has rebloomed once in the growing season here (zone 5/4). I suspect that if I were to treat it better (water, fertilizer and weeding, etc.) that it would rebloom every year. I have two clumps of it.
Scape heights here are a little shorter than the registered size but that is probably because of the growing conditions that most of my daylilies have to endure.

I have long suspected that 'Leprechaun's Lace' carries the gene for viable "white" seeds. That is, it is heterozygous for that gene. Its own seeds are not white. But at least one of its seedlings (with an unknown pollen parent) produced white seeds.

@mauricedow9
Did you have to get a new account, were you forced to log in and could not use the old account?

@Seedfork Hmm, I did not notice that my account had changed. I posted a comment in the daylilies database and there was request for a login but I did not think I created a new account. I will logout and see what happens when I try to login with my normal account.

@Seedfork Thank you for the heads up. I think I may have corrected the problem but I do not know why it happened originally. My normal method of logging into garden.org failed and when I tried a second time still failed. It seems as if it may now be corrected. (I had to save the same password twice to actually correct the problem on my Windows computer.) This post is a test. Apparently my third attempt to login resulted in either the creation of a new account or the resurrection of an ancient account or ???

I really like this mini! I second Raven, who commented that it's a mini and is diamond-dusted. Leprechaum's lace reblooms reliably and almost continuously if it has good culture; I have seen it really go gangbusters and have nice branching when it has compost and water. It is wonderful for the front of the border as it has low habit and foliage that is fine and in proportion to the scapes and blooms.
Maurice, thanks for sharing about the hybridizer. It's interesting and surprising that Liz Salter made this hardy, dormant cultivar.

I have seedlings out of it and am looking forward to seeing how readily it gives up its melon coloring.