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Curious that 'Freedom Is Not Free' is registered as a Tet but apparently crossed to 'Wild Rose Fandango', a Dip, to create a dip child 'Lily Farm Arachnid Orbiter'. I will note that the hybridizer had FINF listed as a Tet on his website in 2020

Plant details may be found at https://www.missouribotanicalg...
Based on child plants associated with this cultivar, it is a diploid
Based on the reference link, this cultivar is a tetraploid
I am surprised AHS let the children be listed with a unregistered daylily as a parent.

Cultivar does not perform well in my garden; does not increase and rarely blooms. I only keep it because I am too lazy to dig it up and throw it over the fence.

Notes from 2023
4" bloom
Season Early
FFO 9 May
Rebloomed 16 Jun
Prev year notes at same location
2022 FFO 5/12; 2021 FFO 5/20 [year of the Great Freeze in TX]
2020 FFO 5/6 4.5" bloom 2019 FFO 5/15

2024: available from at least the following sellers
Oakes
Ogden Station
both sources cite a 6" bloom
Garden notes:
blooms every year, has minimal increase, pod fertile as I have 4 unregistered seedlings, at least 1 of which is dormant.
blooms are only 5" when I measure early morning...maybe they open more later
5" blooms are typical here when I measure
season is early-mid: FFO dates--5/20/19, 5/13/20, 5/18/21, 5/12/22, 5/19/23 all in same location.
Bought in 2001, apparent year of introduction.

for parentage of Benchmark, see
'Daylily Journal' Vol 50 No.1 p 37
"TABLE I
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF
THE MUNSON TETRAPLOID PROGRAM"

Looking at the many diploid children of this cultivar [tetraploid kids have Tet Monica Marie as a parent], the registered ploidy is likely incorrect.

FFO on a proliferation rebloom scape in TX was measured at 140mm ~5.5". The rest will likely be smaller but TJO doesn't usually rebloom for me so who knows.

Registered as diurnal, this plant starts to open around dinner time the evening before in my Huron County, MI, garden, and is fully open before sunrise.

Plant Patent 31809
Curiously, this plant is patented as dormant but AHS registered & marketed by the patent owner as semi-evergreen.

My Rosa 'Peggy Martin' froze back nearly to the ground during the -6F Great Texas Freeze of 2021. So, of course I had to get another one. By that time, it had started growing back from the ground and 2023 blooms are in the posted plant picture. This plant sends up new rooted shoots from the roots as well as from branches that touch the ground and is easily propagated that way.
My purchased ones grow on large heavy duty arbors adjacent a 6 foot fence after seeing one of the neighborhood arbors collapsed from the weight of the shoots.

Gorgeous when if fully opens but definitely has a lot of blooms that hang up [and never fully open] on the big edge ruffles both in my TX and MI gardens. On the other hand, the plant performs well as a dormant in both locations. 2023 bloom FFO 5/17/23 in TX and 7/18/23 in MI. Now if someone could just hybridize out the hanging....

extract from Plant Patent 22799
for additional details, review the plant patent
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention comprises a new and distinct cultivar of Hemerocallis plant of the dormant type, and hereinafter is referred to by the cultivar name 'Double Pardon Me'.

The new cultivar of the present invention originated in a production block among 'Pardon Me' Hemerocallis plants growing near West Grove, Pa., U.S.A. The 'Pardon Me' plants growing in the block had been asexually reproduced by division. A single plant of the new cultivar was removed and isolated from the block and was thereafter preserved and studied in order to determine its possible characterization as being a new and distinct cultivar. It has been concluded as a result of this study that the new cultivar of the present invention is a spontaneous whole plant mutation of the 'Pardon Me' cultivar of unknown causation. It further has been determined that the new cultivar can be consistently distinguished from the 'Pardon Me' cultivar through the display of a dissimilar highly attractive inflorescence. More specifically, the new cultivar upon study and observation was found to reliably form a significantly greater number of tepals per blossom than the 'Pardon Me' cultivar. It was determined that the new 'Double Pardon Me' cultivar consistently forms eighteen (18) tepals per blossom, while the parent 'Pardon Me' cultivar displays exclusively single blossoms having only six (6) tepals. This finding with respect to the characterization of the new cultivar has been additionally observed during a number of subsequent growing seasons prior to the release of the new cultivar to the public.

Many plants growing on the Lake Huron shoreline as lake levels recede from record height.

The base color is not near as yellow here as some pictures posted show. Colors on my display match colors observed by [my] eye in the field.

FFO 6/8/2023 after not blooming in 2022

'Butterscotch Ruffles' has a long bloom + rebloom season in my MI daylily bed. In 2022, FFO was before 6/23 and LFO was 9/24. The best early scape was 36 buds and 6-way branching in 2022. The average counts are somewhat less.

Fertile both ways. Pollen easy, Pod difficult but not impossible

Some of the blooms had a tiny malformed pistil this spring. Will check any reblooms for a continuing issue.

This daylily is NOT "evergreen" in my TX location ☹ whether potted or in-ground. May be semi-evergreen; definitely deciduous

Legacy plant in MI, at least 40 years old with multiple large clumps. Most recent stats I have are from 2017 at 4.5" bloom on 38" scape with up to 38 buds and up to 5 way branching. Average is lower on bud count and branching. Does not like my TX site. "Your results may vary.." 2018 bloom FFO on 15 Jul in MI.