Siloam Double Classic grew here for about a dozen years ( along with the entire Stout Medal collection) I dug up all of my SSM winners and gave them to my daylily club in the early 2000's when we wanted to create an AHS Display Garden. They're still out at that Display Garden! I kept double fans of a few that I liked best, and Sm. Db. Classic was one, but it eventually left here At one time, there was also a large collection of Pauline Henry's daylilies of at least 50 of her plants ( started that back in the 1990's) but those were dug up and sent to a collector of her plants in Arkansas. I grew a lot of her doubles and her minatures/ small flowers and that's probably when I grew to love and appreciate miniatures.
Siloam Double Classic was a great daylily for it's time, and people raved about the color. It won the Stout Medal in 1993, and was only the second double daylily to win the Stout. ( David Kirchhoff's BETTY WOODS was the first) The color is entrancing, and I always loved the bloom substance too. The scapes are short, and IN THIS CLIMATE - can't speak for other parts of the country - it generally produces single blooms early in the season, but then begins doubling when the temperature warms up a bit. ( Side note: have been proof reading Scott Elliott's new book on Double daylilies recently and found his chapter about "why doubles don't always double" very informative on this subject. Book will hopefully be out late this fall)
This picture, taken here in 2005, is the only one still on file.
