Background history:

'Roses in Snow' is a semi-evergreen tetraploid introduced in 1999 by Dan Hansen. Dan hybridizes at Ladybug Daylilies in Geneva, Florida. More information can be found on his website: http://ladybugdaylilies.com/

Roses in Snow is an early to mid-season bloomer with possible rebloom. It has a 2.4 rust resistance rating. It has earned the following AHS awards: Honorable Mention: 2003 and Award of Merit: 2006. It is pod and pollen fertile with pod and pollen fertile with 62 registered children: http://garden.org/plants/paren...

This plant can be found in the ATP Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Roses in Snow') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Roses in Snow')

I love this daylily. The light edge is a beautiful feature. It did not flower the year I planted it, nor the second year being in my garden. The third year it showed off its blooms. It did achieve the registered height and bloom size once it got settled in. I tried pollinating this year, it set a few pods but they didn't keep. We did have some hot days this summer. I'll try again next year.

Taken July 14, 2015:

'Roses In Snow', a very old favorite that was first planted 7 yrs.ago. It gets very little attention from me except for some alfalfa meal in the Springtime. It is an early bloomer in my Vermont garden, with no rebloom. It is always my first red flower to bloom, and in its simplicity defined with an almost opaque white edge outline around the very tip of its red ruffled face. Green throat. Striking.

I used to have Roses in Snow. I had it for about 5 years. It was a very nice plant and a great plant to hybridize with but I gave it away, simple because I did not like the flowers blooming so low in the foliage. It always bloomed that way in my yard. I did get a lot of seed from it but the seed had to be dried an extra amount of time or the seeds always rotted.

RIS grows and blooms well in zone 6

Blooms do not fully open, stay cupped or trumpet like. If you like that sort of shape. The edging is prominent and consistent, and it grows fast for me, does bloom close to the foliage-not tall, has more of a wide spreading shape. Looks lovely planted next to a creamy color dl for companion. Flowers have good substance.
Another really nice red/white edge is Pocket Change (LOVE it) and another is Mary Alice Stokes. Both have prominent edges.

Roses in Snow is a pretty bloom, but I had it in a mostly shaded area for 5 years or so. Then moved it to a sunnier location 2 years ago. To be fair, it has probably not performed well or multiplied much due to the shady location.

I love the white edge it displays on the petals and the warm red color. It has not had an issue with rust in my zone 6b garden. The scapes are sturdy which is a trait I really like and it blooms in mid-June here.

This picture is from 2011. I bought a double fan in July 2009. It does bloom down in the foliage as @Hemlady stated. I've kept it because of the blooms, but as my space becomes more limited, I can see that this may be one that I might get rid of.

Thank you very much Becky and Larry for the acorns!

I do not have this cultivar, but I do have several seedlings from it as the pod parent. Of course the seedlings I have, used another red bloom cultivar to cross with it (Mama's Cherry Pie). I get compliments on the blooms when people see them. The red with the white bordered petals is such a pretty contrast. Some of mine are well above the foliage, so the MCP pollen parent must be providing the height for some of my seedlings. The scapes are some of the sturdiest of any seedlings I grow.

This is a pedigree chart of 4 of my seedlings:



Note: I saw in the database that someone named "Otte" registered several seedlings of this same cross. Only one registration has a photo though. (sigh) Why do hybridizers do that? Register and name a cultivar (2003) yet provide no photos in the AHS database.

Becky, I am so glad you posted the pedigree chart! I was wracking my brain trying to figure out the connection between Whooperee and Roses in Snow. I have both and knew they were connected, now I know it was Mama's Cherry Pie!

I have wondered the same thing about registered daylilies. One would think that the hybridizer has to have pictures after studying a dl for a few years. I don't understand either why there would be no picture

Vickie - Hmmmm .... from my pedigree chart, there is no connection between Whooperee and Roses in Snow ..... except that Whooperee is the pod parent of Mama's Cherry Pie. But I do think that there is some resemblance between RIS and MCP in bloom appearance though. Which confused me at first when trying to ID the parents of my seedlings .... only to find out, of course, that BOTH are parents of my 4 seedlings.

I do get really irritated when I look up a cultivar on AHS and there isn't a photo. Why even bother to register a daylily if you can't even provide a photo of a single bloom? Where is any kind of proof that this cultivar even exists? Grrrr ....

I could understand years ago that a photo may not be submitted w registration, but nowadays cameras are in every back pocket, purse and phone all over the place. No reason to register a dl w/o a photo IMO.

I do think nowadays you are supposed to submit a photo. I always had to. I would think it is a problem with the very old cultivars. Too bad they can't get pics of them because I would like to see what some of the very old ones look like.

I guess I was wrong in my previous comment of not getting any seeds from RIS. Here are the seedlings that bloomed in 2017.

The forth year for RIS in my garden has been its best year.

I purchased this plant back in June of 2015, it took this plant until May of 2018 to show it's first bloom. It did put up a scape in 2016, not even a scape in 2017, and now I think it has finally established itself, so I am looking forward to next year with it. If it does not do much better next year, it will have to go.

I've had this plant for a number of years...eight, maybe? It is pretty when it blooms and it's pretty early in my garden. It doesn't really do much but it had lots of competition for many years. Now that I'll be paying close attention, as well as watering and feeding, I'll be curious to see if RIS does anything more. I'd say, I probably get a scape or two with maybe eight to ten buds, low to the foliage, but that doesn't really bother me. Maybe I need to move it somewhere where it is easier to see as it isn't very tall.

It's nice to see this one pop up. I donated RIS to a club sale a few years ago. It's a good daylily, I just don't have room anymore.

I bought Roses in Snow in April of 2022 because I had read somewhere that it was rust-resistant. The plant bloomed in early June, but by the end of that month, it was showing quite a bit of rust. I trimmed the rusty leaves, but the rust returned, so I dug it up and potted it to isolate it. The plant did not return this spring (2023). Roses in Snow was one of my failures as a garden plant. I was sorry this one did not work out because the blooms were pretty.