I received a single fan of Explosion in the Paint Factory two years ago from a friend who had grown it from a proliferation. It bloomed the first year, and in its second was a robust double fan with performance close to registered size, although not yet the number of buds.
The blooms are very showy, and really stand out in the garden, even from a distance. Each day there is a different presentation of the color break, stripes and dots, and the segments twist, cascade and sometimes spatulate. Buds are nicely spaced on a strong, sturdy scape, so large multiple blooms don't interfere with each other.
Reportedly the blooms are occasionally solid yellow, although I haven't seen that yet. Rich Howard, the hybridizer, says that he has seen an entire scape throw yellow blooms, but subsequently have that fan produce scapes with color break blooms.
EitPF has also won the 2019 RW Munson award for best patterned daylily, and the 2020 Lambert-Webster award for best UFo.
