Hi all, I'm posting this thread, because, if I don't, then these pretty flowers don't get a venue, which would be sad as many of them are quite beautiful.

As many of you know, I collect Pat Ball seedlings which I name, because it makes it easier for me to ID them. I also have some plants that that were sold to me with names that turned out to have no registration. So here's a place to display some of those. If others out there have seedlings and unregistered plants they would like to post, please feel free to use this thread too.

Alex is Five, Pat Ball seedling 19-143, named after my daughter Alex who would only wear pink at the age of five



Alex's Party Dress, PB 09-161, same reason, a particularly frilly pale pink dress she was fond of



Blood Transfusion, PB 19-016, named for 1916 being the year successful blood transfusions were invented. The flower looks like it is being suffused with cherry blood



Blushing Pink, Wild unregistered



British Abolition, PB 18-017, named for the year the British abolished slavery, 1817



Callisto Dawn, PB 16-010, named for the year Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter in 1610.



Cheeky Cherry, Wild, supposed to be Cherry Cheeks but clearly wasn't



Cool It, Breck's unregistered



Cumberland Island, Halsema unregistered



Eleanor of Portugal, PB 12-011, named for Eleanor of Portugal who became the Queen of Norway in 1211.



Fire Dog, PB 17-063, 1763 was a Chinese Year of the Dog, also falling into the Fire cycle, each cycle lasting 12 years per element ( Fire, water, earth, air, metal)



Girl Friday, PB 20-099, many of you might be acquainted with Get Smart, a funny spy show from the 60's. Agent 99 was incompetent Max's Girl Friday, always fixing his blunders.



Girly Giggles, PB 20-097, in 1997 my own girls were 5 and 3, resulting in lots of girly giggles



Hey Lookie, Frostline Daylilies unregistered



Hot Pink Lady, Wild unregistered



Lady Georgia, unregistered



Laurelton, PB 19-064, in 1964 my parents moved from Brooklyn to Laurelton Queens with my brother and me in tow.



License to Kill, PB 19-007, named for the famous agent 007, James Bond



Marilam, a seedling mashup of Margaret Seawright and Alnilam



Oh My Eye, Wild unregistered



Ossabaw Island, Halsema unregistered



Pineapple Bliss, Wild unregistered



Pirate Dancer, Wild unregistered



Port Royal Fire, PB 17-103, in 1713, Port Royal in Jamaica experienced a fire that leveled the whole town



Purple Mystery, Wild unregistered



Queen of Spain, PB 14-030, in 1430, Isabella became the Queen of Spain



Random Acts of Kindness, PB 21-172, a little date finagling, 2/17 is National Random Acts of Kindness day



Red Wagon, Wild unregistered



Rip Van Winkle, PB 18-019, 1819 was the year Rip Van Winkle was published by Washington Irving



Rocky Hill Road, seedling, named for its resemblance to a seedling from someone here on NGA ( Mike maybe?)



Ronde Des Princesses, PB 19-102, named for a dance from Stravinsky's Firebird which premiered in 1910.



Sacre du Printemps, PB 19-013, named for Stravinsky's Rite of Spring which premiered in 1913 and caused a riot.



Sit Down John, PB 17-074, named for a song from 1776, a musical about the time leading up to the American Revolution. " Sit Down John" is begging John Quincy Adams to please sit down and stop talking during the Continental Congress of 1774



Sochi Olympics, PB 20-142, in February of 2014, Russia hosted the Winter Olympics in Sochi



St Simons Island, Halsema unregistered



Stay a Little Bit Longer, Wild unregistered



Storm Dennis, PB 20-215, on February 15, 2020, a tropical Cyclone named Storm Dennis hit the coast of Wales with one of the most destructive storms ever experienced there.



Sunny Blush, seedling



Sunrise Smoothie, Wild unregistered



Thank U Next, PB 20-219, named for the #1 hit song on February 19, 2020 by Ariana Grande



The Jazz Age, PB 19-025, named for the time period around 1925



Turkish Bomber, PB 20-132, in February 2013, a Turkish suicide bomber blew himself up inside the US embassy in Ankara..apologies that big events reported on particular days are often unpleasant…this flower is often a blotch fest. One more year of trial, then I'll pull it.



Twilight Highlight, PB 16-095, nothing historical, just a reference to the colors of the flowers



Twinkly Eyes, PB 19-091, I originally named this A Twinkle in the Eye, because that's what Alex was in 1991. However, that name was taken. Then I renamed it Eye Twinkles. Well, recently, that name was used for a new registration. So, here we are at Twinkly Eyes.



Victorious, PB 19-045, named for the year the Allies won the Second World War, 1945



We've Got Elegance, PB 20-333, named for a song from Hello Dolly, which in March of 2020, was literally the last job I played before the Covid shutdown



You're Breaking My Heart, PB 19-049, named for the #1 song of 1949


Ok! I hope you enjoyed this little stroll through these otherwise unrepresented flowers and my thought processes for naming them!

Wonderful post. Excellent names linked to seedling number. Left me wondering about their ploidy. I think I need one of these😁

Great idea for a thread, Zoia, and lovely pictures of flowers. I love the names, too.

I think I may have mentioned this before, but those "island" daylilies are named for islands off the coast of Georgia. They are all near where I live, so the names are very familiar.

St. Simons is the largest and is a popular vacation spot with beautiful beaches. Cumberland Island has a herd of protected wild ponies as well as a series of deserted mansions built in the late 19th century. Ossabaw is probably the least accessible. Members of the public have to apply to visit there, I believe because the island is a nesting site for endangered sea turtles.

Zoia, great thread. The flowers are wonderful, and the idea is fun. I have a number of seedlings from Ginny Pearce. I hadn'r really thought of naming them, other than the obvious descriptions "Ginny Red" and "Ginny Late Orange", etc. It's got me thinking, if I did name them, what would I call them.

Also, one of the many reasons I haven't registered any of my own daylilies is because I can't think of names, and none of my neices or nephews or their kids seem interested in being immortalized florally. But now, I can steal all your names before you register any of them! Just kidding. I would never do that.

A lovely thread with so many beautiful flowers-- a few of my favs, British Abolition, Eleanor Of Portugal, Rip Van Winkle, Ronde de Princesses, Twilight Highlight and You're Breaking My Heart.

Oh, I love naming things! It's harder for me NOT to name them…the historical angle really helps too. Just use parts of the number ID to suggest a date, then Google what happened that day in history.

Thanks for looking! It was fun to put together.

I have just a few.

Here's Captain Dewey:


Robin Returns:


I received two more unregistered seedlings as a bonus this year, but they haven't bloomed yet. I will try to think of good names for them.

Wowser names! Can I put you on retainer since I have a difficult time with names as well as with color descriptions?

Haha, sure! They are mostly your plants anyway!

Zoia, I love the seedling you named Blushing Pink and Hot Pink Lady! Not sure about performance, but Wild produced some of the prettiest colors I've seen.

Actually both of those Wild plants do pretty well, performance wise.

Glad someone resuscitated this thread.
I forgot we had a general place to put NOIDS and seedlings.

Since I just found this pic from 2023 a few minutes ago I will put it here.


A kid from Ahoya, but with dark scapes from Darker Than Sin.
No ideas of a garden name for it yet. I forgot it actually existed until a few minutes ago.

That one is really cool, Orion…keep an eye on it!

Westbourne So Blue Without Teresa/Star Child #6 has now been named:
"Jann's Pinkablue"

The above picture shows how the flower can look in a certain light, but it usually looks like this--


I think there are now 10-12 fans, so hoping for a good bloom season.

It's lovely

So pretty!

A fun thread, Pat & Tim are correct: you have a great flair for naming daylilies! But I will point out / remind that many unregistered daylilies, given garden names, go on to create great confusion when a daylily comes along that is actually registered with the same name.

Over the years, I have managed to purchase (2) named daylilies (from 'legitimate' sources) which each have names conflicting with a 'registered' daylily of the same name.

In the case of one such daylily, I fault the registrant for using a name already clearly widely distributed commercially under a name which the registrant then used years later to register a different daylily with AHS.

The previous daylily of the same name had won an All-American Daylily award in 2003 (and therefore that named daylily existed and was known previous to 2003) ...whereas the 'registered' daylily of the same name was not using the name until 2012.

Really, any daylily name 'not' registered with AHS leaves the name 'open' by AHS standards ... yet creates undeniable confusion for any two 'different' daylilies to be 'out in the world' simultaneously while identified by the same name. When you obtain either one, there is confusion as to 'which' one you will be receiving ... 'Garden names' just add to that confusion.

For that reason, I hesitate to post here the daylilies I have in the gardens whose names are also duplicated by 'other' daylilies with the same names.

I always check if my garden names are already in use and have switched one twice already to comply with my own rule. That being said, I don't sell the Daylilies, they remain here and I always post the seedling numbers, if available. So there isn't much chance of my names confusing anyone.

I appreciate your abundance of caution and wish others were equally as careful.

I only have a few seedlings that I have named, but I always check the ADS data base to make sure any name I use is not that of a registered daylily.