Background history:

'Unending Melody' is a evergreen diploid introduced in 2000 by Jack Carpenter. Jack owned and operated The Lily Farm until he sold it to his nephew, Mark, in 2010. Story can be found here: http://lilyfarm.com/changingha...

More information about Jack Carpenter can be found in this thread started by Char: The thread "ATP Series: The Daylilies of Jack Carpenter" in Daylilies forum

Unending Melody is a mid-season bloomer with possible rebloom. It earned the Honorable Mention: 2004 AHS award. It is both pod and pollen fertile with 30 registered children: http://garden.org/plants/paren...

This plant can be found in the NGA Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Unending Melody') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Unending Melody')

Unending Melody blooms almost 4 weeks - from late June to Mid-July in my zone 6 garden. However, it only gets about 10-12 blooms per scape and has two way branching that you can see in the picture. Which surprises me because the AHS listing says that it has 6-way branching and 41-45 buds.

Although it hasn't multiplied very fast, sometimes that is a blessing, but I have had UM since 2011, so in general it really hasn't performed very well. Maybe it's my soil conditions

With that said, I have not seen a bad bloom on UM. Each one seems to be unblemished. I also do not recall seeing rust on it.

I have had Unending Melody for 18 years now and it always catches my eye when in bloom - never a bad one even after a very cold night or very heavy rain. I've had to move it once as it became too dark in its original spot but considering how dry its new location is it has multiplied quite well. I haven't found it pollen-fertile or obtained the bud count per registration but like Vickie it's probably the growing conditions here.