While doing some late season research on our ATP Database & came across this older thread & think I am able to contribute ..... Saxton's 'Steeple Jackie' grows well here & has for about 4-5 years now. (USA Z4/Can Z5). It is certainly a 'Late' cultivar with FFO around the 3rd week of August. It does have 5-7 branches with a multitude of buds (Not counted) on erect sturdy - 'wiry' - scapes. The blooms are actually rather plain & small ... However, this plant matches up with my image of 'wildflower' characteristics .... Tall, fine-scapes with thin multiple branching and small 'natural looking' blooms. It does seem to be both pod & pollen fertile as I have 2015 pods developing both ways (Will be a late harvest!). ( NB: Saxton + Sobek + Huben + Apps + Turner plus several others, have similar introductions)
Unusual? Yes. ... Certainly not for most collectors or breeders. .... But SJ works here for me in my quest for SoS + SoM + SoT 'wildflower' types that rebloom - or have long blooming seasons. I view such cultivars as daylilies that don't really stand out - that need to be 'discovered' - growing along a fence-line or hedgerow or at the back of a cultivated border.
I found my SJ at Harmon Hill Daylily Nursery in Massachusetts. They grow a very wide assortment of such unusual daylilies.
- MGP
