Background history:

'Siloam David Kirchhoff' is a dormant diploid introduced in 1986 by Pauline Henry of Siloam Springs, Arkansas. She registered 490 cultivars over a 37 year period. She passed away in 2000 (at the age of 92).
http://www.daylilydiary.com/si...

This is a lovely tribute to Pauline from other well-known hybridizers:
http://ahsregion13.org/history...

A beautiful memorial garden was built by the city in honor of Pauline and her husband, Ralph, which is maintained by the local master gardeners:
http://siloamdaylilies.com/

This is a 2008 slideshow featuring many of her daylilies:
http://www.siloamdaylilies.com...

Siloam David Kirchhoff is an early to mid-season extended bloomer. It is listed as showing rust susceptibility. It has earned the following AHS awards: DCS: 1996, ATG: 1995, JC: 1986, Honorable Mention: 1990, and Award of Merit: 1993. It is pod and pollen fertile. It currently has 7 registered children: http://garden.org/plants/paren...

This plant can be found in the NGA Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Siloam David Kirchhoff') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Siloam David Kirchhoff')

Siloam David Kirchhoff has been in my garden many years and one that I have enjoyed, so much so that when I sold my house it was one of the daylilies that I made sure I dug up and it moved with me! I love everything about this beautiful Daylily and it blooms very very well in my 8b garden. It also multiplies quite well for me to.

Siloam David Kirchhoff has performed so so for me. It needs to be moved to get more sunlight. But it is a keeper love the colors and bloom.

I agree with Emqinn that it needs full sun. In my Zone 5B garden it is in morning shade and it has very few blooms compared to where I used to have it in full sun. That's the curse of moving older daylilies to make room for new ones.

I really like the color of of Siloam David Kirchoff, but it is not consistent on its blooms here in my zone 6 garden. It is in full sun, but seems to bloom really well one year, then very sparse the next. When it is good though, it is very, very good.

Siloam David Kirchhoff does well here. It always blooms prolifically and consistently. I found that the foliage wasn't looking very good after flowering for the last couple of years, so I divided it last year and this year gave it some supplemental watering during the drought. The extra attention seems to have worked. The foliage is nice this year, even this late in the season and after suffering through the heat and the drought. I set two pods on it this year and they seem to be developing well. I really like the colour of this little gem and I will always have this little one in my garden.

Siloam David Kirchhoff has such pretty blooms. It is very prolific here, planted in full sun. Not the best as a show flower because the size and shape of the blooms vary, but a good garden plant. Foliage can sometimes look bad in late summer if not watered well. Increases quickly. Blooms are sometimes down in the foliage, but it's still a keeper for me.

I planted SDK in May 2021.He's in a good sunny location. He put on a lot of fans that first summer ( although some of them turned out to be Fulva). This summer, SDK bloomed from July 7 - 18 with 14 blooms. By October, he was up to 8 fans and no rust, even though other plants around him had it. The blooms are lovely, I'm looking forward to this clumping up.

2023 update…my wish is coming true! SDK was up to 14 fans by this October. He bloomed from July 6-19 with 29 blooms. Maybe next year will be a longer bloom season. As with many cvs this year, there was advantage taken of the rainy summer to build the plant and less attention to blooming.