Looking for other Northern Hardy Scultped Relief OR Just to talk about Sculpted Reliefs in any region that you think are good or need some work but be sure to state the zone you are in. I like a good challenge. IE) I have a bunch from Dan Hansen that say Evergreen and they rock it out here in the North so they are also Northern hardy. Im testing Grooved Abalone out and hope it rocks like the others do. I had to have it!!!

I am so addicted to Sculpted Reliefs. Char is such an amazing woman and I am so glad to have her to talk to whenever I need/want to talk Relief plants. She has so many amazing seedlings! I started my little list and started to wonder what other people have that I have never heard of or seen. What do you have in your gardens?

Ladybug South Beach
Bamboo Fan
Small World National Treasure
Keys To The Kingdom
Intaglio Image
Sexy Stella
Sheila Beila
Sunset Key
Debra Scott
Ladybug Rosy Cheeks
Fringing Coral Reef
Wonder Of It All
Just Call Me Angel - adding spring
Grooved Abalone - adding spring
Lady Bug Fancy Nancy - adding spring
ladybug Sweeeet - adding spring

I have Sheila Beila. It has not done well here. You'd think it would since it is one of Dan Hansen's evergreens. It has never bloomed and is really rust prone. It has already shown rust this season, in February in fact. That is the only one I have. I am thinking of potting it up and and using it to test seedlings for rust resistance.

I would like to get something with some sculpted relief, but I don't want another rusty plant. I may try another one at some point.

Later: I realize that my post was not in the spirit of the request, and I apologize for that. You are looking for northern-hardy sculpted relief plants to add to your collection, and I had nothing to suggest, so I should have kept quiet. Good luck, and I hope you get some wonderful suggestions from others.

Empire Of Desire [Norris-R, 2010] is a yellow sculpted relief [not registered as such] from a northern breeder that should do well for you.

Dewey I updated the post to make it more open - I love the idea of sharing plants that could use some help in different zones!

Sunrise thank you! I will look for it!

Thank you Dragonfly. I love the relief forms too.

:thumbsup: Empire of Desire is a pretty one!

You have a nice list of reliefs Dragonfly. I had Intaglio Image at one point, tender here. Wonder of it All didn't open well with our cool mornings so I rarely saw a pretty bloom.
I love Dan Hansen's relief forms and I've seen a lot of them when visiting Curt (Hanson) over the years. Keys To The Kingdom, was tender but survived a few years for me and can be found in the background of some of my intro's. One of Dan's that has done well and is still here is Cliff Hanger, an oldie but goody, parent to Nazca Hummingbird which is parent to Through Time and Space.




No Fear, is a newer one Dan sent me that he thought would be ok this far north. I haven't checked it yet this spring but it was ok last year.


Carved Pumpkin Pie, has always done well.


Groovin' a Lee Pickles intro.


When Johnny Comes Marching Home another one from Lee.


Normally I can't grow the Spacecoast plants but Spacecoast Pattern Plus has been here a long time.


Nan, you could ask Dan about a rust resistant relief form. He's very open and honest about his daylilies.

In my part of Ohio, Debra Scott and When You Are Strange die quick and painful deaths. Twice. But Bonibrae Heartbreaker, Chan Dom Vongthirath, and Scarface are surviving not just my zone, but my severe neglect.

Here's my list


Ascending Peculiarities, new last year but doing well



Cranky Rooster, a Char Rich plant. It's from Vermont, so should do well here in MA, planted last September



Debra Scott



Forest for the Sun, same Char story as Cranky Roo



Great White Dove, planted last year, not registered as one but sculpy


I Dreamed a Dream, also not a registered sculpted



Isinglass Mountain, same Char Rich story as previous


Promised You Heaven, same Char story as previous


Pussycat Swallowtail, not registered as sculpted but appears that way



Spacecoast Tiny Perfection looks sculpted too



There are others, unregistered with pleats, mostly bagels with ruffles. But most of my official ones come from Char.

You all have so many beautiful sculpted plants!

Char do you know when the term Sculpted Relief was introduced? I see older plants that very much look like they are but its not mentioned in their descriptions.

Char is your website up to date for spring? Ive been chomping at the bit wanting to go "window shopping" - ha! we both know to take "window" off of that phrase!

There seem to be ones for 2024 listed:
http://holdnheavendaylilies.pl...

I forgot to mention two that I have, both Char Rich plants

Feel the Thunder



Spirit of the Adventure…this was also planted last Fall

Zoia, Ascending Peculiarities, Cranky Rooster, Feel the Thunder and Spirit of the Adventure are Sculpted pleated forms. Forest for the Sun, Isinglass Mountain and Promised You Heaven all have light embossing, a type of Sculpted relief.
https://daylilies.org/daylily-...

The terms, sculpted or sculpting, relief, embossed and carved had been used by various hybridizers going back to the '80's and 90's when describing what is now the Sculpted relief form. Prior to the writing of the official definitions and the Sculpted form being recognized in 2010 as a Form of daylilies, the reliefs were being registered simply as single flower and the registration descriptions didn't always contain any sculpting terms. Catalog descriptions, back then there were catalogs not websites, did contain more info as hybridizers were free to write what they wanted when describing their intro's. Even now although we can write more in our registration descriptions we are asked to keep it simple leaving the fancy talk for websites and catalogs. Hybridizers could correct their registrations to Sculpted for free after Sculpted registration opened starting with 2011, that time has expired now. Some hybridizers took advantage of this and did so, others didn't. As for newer registrations, there are both some that should (Sculpted) and some that shouldn't (not Sculpted). Some are registered with the wrong pleated, relief or cristate subform too. So the official registration record for Sculpted forms may never be "complete" or completely correct but it is a tool to we can use to register and find them now.

Thank you Orion for posting a link to my website

So Sculpted Pleated is the one that looks like it doesn't meet flat in the middle and Sculpted Relief looks like grooves in the petals? Just trying to get it straight in my mind…

I have lost a lot of Dan Hansen's sculpted reliefs over the years here in TN. I think Empire of Desire is the only sculpted relief I now grow.

Action Figure is a pretty daylily listed as sculpted form--pleated. It is not a northern bred daylily, but there are two pictures in the data base that are courtesy of Nova Scotia Daylilies so maybe it does well in colder climates.