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While it is invasive, it only appears more serious than it is due to the way it grows; densely and in sunny places, along roads and railroads. It doesn't penetrate very deep, though, and compared to other invasive plants, takes up not even a tenth of the area. The main point I want to make with this comment, though, is to say that it is edible! The roots, leaves, flowers and vines. I hear the roots are even sweeter than sweet potatos! I can't wait to try it. I encourage everyone to look up more information- maybe together we can eat it into remission! 😆

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There seems to be limited information about Red Sarah Bernhardt, but several sites state that this peony is not related to Sarah Bernhardt but used Sarah Bernhardt as part of its name as a marketing tactic to take advantage of Sarah's huge popularity.

The Fiona Peony is sometimes sold as Red Sarah Bernhardt which it very closely resembles.

Red Sarah Bernhardt is not true red. It is described with terms such as cerise-red, fuchsia-red, purple and cerise colored, deep fuchsia-purple, and dark pinkish-purple tinged with red.

It appears the plant may go through a transition period in the first couple of years having blossoms in anemone form, then progressing to full double as the plant ages.

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This selection has been offered by Collector's Corner (Gardenworld, Victoria, Australia).

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'Rubber Ducky' made its debut early June 2024 (mid-late) in the PNW, offering up 3 branched stems with 8-9 large blooms each.

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'Espial' made its debut early June 2024 (mid-late) in the PNW, offering up a 3-branched stem with 6 large blooms.

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With only three pictures in the database (and two were mine), I had doubted that the daylily I was posting pictures of was really 'Small World Charles Cade', so I emailed Michael Miller to see if he could verify and he said he was 100% sure that it was indeed 'Small World Charles Cade'. He said that the spots can be due to cold nights.

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I'm in the Pacific Northwest where growing daylilies can be a real challenge.

Though they live through our winters just fine and they'll bloom, so many either won't open all the way or they just don't look the way they're supposed to.

Hermitage Newton is one of the exceptions . It opens well and looks like it should, even in this cool climate.

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I am seeing clumps of this rush in my shaded garden area. I will experiment with it as a clumping grass for the natural garden. Native to North America.

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The Color description of this plant is incorrect, which I discovered last year. I have been corresponding with a member of multiple ADS Registration committees and I am very pleased that he has told me that the description has been corrected on the ADS Database. The amended entry includes an explanation about the error. I hope that the NGA Database will be similarly corrected. https://daylilydatabase.org/de...

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It seems this plant sometimes has polymerous blooms. A friend of mine just had her 'Bradley Hardy' bloom with a polymerous bloom also.

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This species and this cultivar are new on the market. This cultivar is more compact than the straight species.

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This species of muhlenbergia is like the majority of the genus in that it is native to the southern USA and Mexico. Its more exact native range is of central Oklahoma and Texas and down into central Mexico. It is a warm season perennial grass that forms an arching basal clump, does not spread by rhizomes, of densely tufted thread-like green leaves. The older leaf blades curl and accumulate at the base of the plant onto the ground. In August or so clouds of pink flowers bloom and then are followed by attractive seed heads looking good in the fall. It makes a nice brown plant form in the winter. Its generic name comes from Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg (1753-1815) who was a Lutheran minister and self-taught botanist, who was involved with the Revolutionary War. The species name comes from Julien Reverchon who was a French botanist who migated to Texas (1839-1905).

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An interesting note for this plant. Only the stems with color will produce blossoms. I happened to purchase a plant with more pale cream foliage than the others, not knowing this. Only one stem, with a green line down the middle (in one of the photos I uploaded), produced a truss and blossoms. Which produced one tomato for me. The paler sections quickly fried and dried in the sun. The plant did better once I moved it to part-shade. But the all-pale stems still did not fruit.

My one tomato was the size of a golf ball. The foliage and the tomato itself are stunning, absolutely gorgeous. The flavor was good, I got a Brix of 7 and the tomato was a bit higher on acid than sweet, no sour notes.

I am growing Sweet Splash Electra again this year (from seed), and so far the foliage is more balanced, and I expect more fruiting activity. Will update.

My bio has my Youtube info, where I posted a short taste test video of this tomato and more images.
-CElisabeth

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This is an unregistered daylily. I don't think I've ever seen an unregistered daylily in this database. It is not in the ADS database because it isn't registered.

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Old German
Gorgeous juicy tomato
Brix of 9 in my taste test, my palate agreed, it was very sweet for a larger tomato.
Weight: 8-10 ounce average
Prolific, not really.
Plant health: Average
Will definitely grow again.
-CElisabeth

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True Colors/Colours
A favorite of mine. Fantastic balanced flavor, no sour notes.
Gorgeous tri-color, mostly green interior.
Production was Average
Plant health Average
Average weight was about 10-12 ounces.
Mid season producer
-CElisabeth

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Flavor: Typical to bland
Plant health: Average to low
Prolific: Average
It's gorgeous on the inside. Otherwise meh.
I am growing it again this year to double test my impression.
-CElisabeth

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Hungarian Heart
MEATY. Typical good tomato flavor.
Weight average 12-14 ounces, hefty.
Not disease prone, no BER, some cat-facing
Average production for a large oxheart heirloom
Mid to late season producer
-CElisabeth

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It appears to me that this genus now has 2 species, advena and sagittifolia in NC, previously listed as lutea subspecies.

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Green Zebra
Flavor: Very tangy, high acid.
While the flavor was good, the skins were far too tough for me to grow again.
Quite beautiful.
Ripe when the yellow sections turn gold.
Production was average
-CElisabeth

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