Background history:

'Open Hearth' is a dormant diploid introduced in 1976 by Ludlow Lambertson. Ludlow and his wife, Rachel, hybridize daylilies at "Art Gallery Gardens" in Lake Helen, Florida. See their website at: http://www.artgallerygardens.c...

Open Hearth is a mid-season bloomer. It has earned the following AHS awards: Honorable Mention: 1983 and JC: 1978. It is both pod and pollen fertile with currently 45 registered children: https://garden.org/plants/pare...

This plant can be found in the NGA Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Open Hearth') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Open Hearth')

Open Hearth does very well in my climate. I have moved it a number of times and the moves never seem to bother it. It is a good bloomer and gives nice big large plump seeds for a diploid. It does not fade in my climate and increase is fairly good. Seedlings from it tend to take its large open form. I have one seedling from it that I love because of its unusual color but bud count is not up to par. My caramel colored seedling from Open Hearth:

Open Heart has done well here. Poly's frequently and increase well. Bought mine after seeing pics of Cindy's blooms.

My Open Hearth has done TOO well. It increases really fast so a double fan will quickly fill a clump. Eventhough I have divided several times in the last 3 years and gave them away, i still have a nice size clump from the original clump that I have.