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Aug 20, 2015 6:01 PM CST
Name: Becky
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)
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Background history:

"Lavender Blue Baby" is a dormant diploid introduced in 1996 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 info about Jack Carpenter can be found on this thread:

The thread "ATP Series: The Daylilies of Jack Carpenter" in Daylilies forum

This cultivar can be found in the ATP Plant Database:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Lavender Blue Baby')

According to the ATP database, this is an early to midseason bloomer and may rebloom. It is also available as a tetraploid conversion. This cultivar won numerous AHS awards: Stout Silver Medal: 2007, Award of Merit: 2004, Honorable Mention: 2001, DCS: 2007, LEP: 2003
It has 270 registered children currently: http://garden.org/plants/paren...





Please join in, if you own this plant! We would love to know more! (I award an acorn for performance information posted on this thread.)

Also, please consider adding a "Local Report" to the ATP Plant Database!!! Thank you!
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Lavender Blue Baby')
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
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