Background history:

'Gleber's Top Cream' is a semi-evergreen diploid introduced in 1986 by Spalding-W.. No other information on the hybridizer.

Gleber's Top Cream is an early to mid-season extended bloomer with possible rebloom. It has earned the Honorable Mention: 1989 AHS award. It is listed as showing a rust resistance of 1.0. It is pod and pollen fertile with 4 registered children listed: http://garden.org/plants/paren...

This plant can be found in the NGA Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Gleber's Top Cream') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Gleber's Top Cream')

This is an interesting cultivar. The petal texture and shape is different than any other daylilies I currently have. It shows diamond dusting. It is described as a "cream and pink peach polychrome with green throat". I think that is a very accurate description of the blooms. I find it to be unusual and because of that, I like it. The foliage has also been resistant to rust. (Always a big plus for me living in the south.)

I received 2 fans in July 2015. This May 2016 it has produced 2 scapes with a total of only 7 blooms. But I am sure that will increase once this cultivar settles in. I will be watching to see if it re-blooms this year. It's third bloom today was polymerous! I hope to use it in my daylily hybridizing hobby.

Polymerous bloom:

Have never heard of this one. Your bloom is beautiful, Becky!

This plant re-bloomed for me this year on July 24, 2016.

Here are the stats:



And here a photo of the re-bloom scape. You can see the earlier scape (brown) next to the new scape:


And here is a closer photo of a re-bloom flower:


I really love this cultivar!

I grew GLEBER'S TOP CREAM in the mid 90s. It is a gorgeous bloom, but in my Zone 7 garden at the time, the bud count was always in the single digits.

David

I loved this one, but alas, like so many other daylilies that I have had, it only survived here 3 years before perishing forever in my garden. There is something about my Zone 10A and location because most daylilies struggle here. They don't even sell daylilies at the plant nurseries here. This is one that was a polychrome that was so pretty, that I wished I still had!