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MADELINE TURNER
[Turner, C; 2011]  Dor Tet  42”; MLa 6.5”                                     3-4 way branching; 21 buds;  Light plum-lavender ruffled petals with a pale watermark; lighter lavender sepals edged with somewhat deeper lavender; gold-green throat; and medium green foliage; fertile both ways.  True northern branching and bud count; watered only by nature and unfertilized after seedling-year.

An excellent all-around garden daylily with strong presence, Madeline Turner is named for our mother who, after secretarial and homemaking careers; in her last two decades (eighth and ninth) has  become a painter, sculptress, and cartoonist with an avid interest in current events. [(Mariska x U) X U]   [$30.00 SF] 

STIPPLED TEASE
[Turner, C. 2011] Dor dip  41” M  4.75” lightly fragrant  4-5 way branching; 26 buds  medium green foliage; fertile both ways; true northern branching and bud-count as water and nutrients have been provided by nature only. 

A little bit of naughty & a whole lot of nice, Stippled Tease challenges, cajoles, and, yes, teases the photographer to capture its presentation of stippling in mauve dotting & streaking underlain with white that surfaces showily on its midribs, providing an unusual garden presence augmented with chalk-dust halos, ruffled petals, re-curved sepals & glowing gold-green throats.  [(Ever After x Unk) X Unk]   [$30.00 TF]

LIAR’S POKER                                                                        [Curt Turner – 2010]  Dor. Tet. 34" LM  7-71/2" Frag. Vigorous, blooming second year from seed; pollen fertile; pod fertile with coaxing. True northern branching and bud count (seventeen buds on three-way terminal branching) as I don’t fertilize or water. LIAR’S POKER is a large rich plum-purple (RHS# 187B) with a wide lavender-blue chalk-eye watermark (RHS# 76B) comparing very favorably with others of this type with regard to size, dormancy, fragrance, vigor, color-value and clarity. A thin pale yellow/white edge matches the color of the throat transition zone from the chalk-eye to the green throat as well as the color of the sepal band.  Adding to the enjoyment of special daylilies, and not usually commented upon, discerning observers will note the same full matching color-transition throughout the length of the stamen filaments and the pistil - especially visible in the above photograph. In certain lights, LIAR’S POKER exhibits a black haze and black highlights close to its ruffled edges. It has maroon veining and midribs which are bisected by a thin dark pencil-line. Blooms are held nicely above medium green foliage.

Intriguing, alluring, romantic and sensual, LIAR’S POKER bespeaks of a full moon, a late hour, a perfumed elbow, a clink of coins, an amber liquid in a short glass and a hint of cigar smoke on the night air.  (Wild Blue Yonder x Self)  [$50.00 SF]

CHAMBERMAIDENS                                                                [Curt Turner-2010] Dor. Dip 43" EM 3-3/4" Fertile both ways.     As I don’t fertilize or water, true northern branching (4-way) and bud count (18). Complete medium-yellow self from throat to tepal tip distinguished by a broad medium-brown vertical stripe running nearly the outside length of each sepal. When fully open, these stripes create the illusion of reverse bicoloration. Fully budded, Chambermaidens displays an unusually attractive bicolor demarcation beginning with green at the base and followed upwardly by brown until it ends with a touch of green again at the tip. Fertile both ways, its smooth-edged upturned flowers are well-spaced and, even in clump strength, are held uncrowdedly above medium-green foliage.

Drawing strongly favorable garden-visitor comments, including tetraploid aficionados, Chambermaidens presents itself cleanly as a standout landscape specimen.  [(Seedling x Unknown) X (Tom Collins x Toy Trumpets)  $18.00 Clump ***Please Order This Plant Directly from GWF ***

ROWLEY ROYALE 
[C. Turner -- 2009]  37"  Dor. EM 5.5" Tet
My best green-throated near-black with decent northern bud-count in twenty years of cross-breeding dormant near-black tetraploids from many hybridizers.  ROWLEY ROYALE is a lightly ruffled dark red/purple self with a lighter plum midrib and a greyed-purple band that color transitions down the throat to maroon-red, gold and a lovely green core. [[(Rev. Joseph Barth sdlg x Ed Murray) x (Midnight Magic x Unk)] X Unk ]]   [$20.00 TF]

PRINCESS KATE
[C. Turner - 2007]  Dor 3.25” M  31” Dip
Exhibiting the fresh-aired open loveliness of another winsome addition to the royal House of Windsor family, PRINCESS KATE is a near-white, diploid, cold-hardy self with a clean,clear light-lavender eye with darker lavender veins within the eye that change to a light pumpkin-beige as they spread outwards towards a fine-translucent edge of the same color; a creamy light-yellow outer throat over an apple-green inner throat; and a slate-white midrib bisected vertically by the thinnest charcoal silken thread.  [N/A in 2024]

GABRIEL’S WEATHERVANE  
(C. Turner 2006)  Dor. 42”  M  4" Dip
Pointing the way to a new direction in diploid daylilies, GABRIEL’S WEATHERVANE holds its widely-separated, creamy-yellow, trumpet-shaped blossoms on tall, four-way, well-spaced branched scapes that carry up to 20 buds.  The elongated milky-smooth blooms portray an airy elegance that is restful and soothing, displaying a small green throat at the end of the long, narrow, four-to-five inch trumpets.  Awarded “Best Seedling” at the New England Daylily Society’s 2005 Flower Show with five well-spaced blooms open on a single scape, GABRIEL’S WEATHERVANE is valued for both its show presence and its usefulness to hybridizers  [$20.00 Clump]  **Please order this plant directly  from GWF.

MEMORIALIZE 
(C. Turner 2005)  29”  Dor  EM  4" Lt. frag  Dip
Having experienced September eleven from five blocks away, I named MEMORIALIZE to commemorate the lives lost then, and in all unexpected tragedies. Its quiet beauty and four-way, twin-tower branching is further represented in its dusky rose-lavender petals, pale plum sepals and lightly grayed-rose margins on both petals and sepals. A casually ruffled, cold-hardy bicolor diploid, MEMORIALIZE’s lovely plum eye, echoing plum outer-band pencil eye, plum petal-veining and vivid green throat is anticipated in buds that are colored on the top 2/3rds in striking mauve and on the bottom in clear medium green. Fertile both ways  [$15.00 DF]  **Please order this plant directly from GWF.

ROB AND DARLYN
(C. Turner 00)   Dor. M-ML  22" Dip
Named in celebration of the marriage of the Wilkinsons, ROB AND DARLYN, features a lovely rose-red eye against a background of pink leading to a deep green throat. A nice gift alternative to cut roses for that special person.  [$15.00 Clump]  **Please order this Plant directly from Greywood Farm **

TWO MELANIES
(C. Turner 2006)  DOR 41" EM  4”  DIP
Named for hybridizing friends, TWO MELANIES is a clear, saturated, medium-yellow, diploid self with a green throat, doubling about 80-85 percent of the time.  Buds are fulsomely fat foretelling an exuberant presentation of bloom. [$15.00 Clump]  *Please order directly from GWF

VICTOR VICTORIA
(C. Turner 00)  Dor. 17" ML 4" Dip
A silvery-lavender diploid self that doubles about 75 percent of the time, VICTOR VICTORIA features a deep violet eye transitioning into a sunburst-golden-rimmed green throat. Sold Out  ** Please order this plant directly from Greywood Farm **

ONE IF BY LAND
(C. Turner 2008) Dor. 49" E. 4.5"  Dip
A new color addition to tall, northern-hardy, early, diploid lines.  ONE IF BY LAND's warm amber-orange colors are set off by golden midribs and a throat that concludes in a deep smidgeon of green. Well-spaced, four-way branching with 21 buds are held well-above medium-green foliage.  [$15.00 Clump]  **Please order this plant directly from Greywood Farm**

DAFFY TAFFY 
(C. Turner 2008) Dor. 40" M 3"  Dip
Featuring a soft, circular, candy-corn melding of beige, rouge, and yellow, DAFFY TAFFY is a striking diploid in clump-strength with its green throats providing lovely counterpoints to the color blends of its blooms, and its scapes being resistant to the strongest of winds. Showy in the landscape.  [$15.00 Clump]  ***Please order this Plant directly from Greywood Farm ***

INCA TRUMPETER                                                              (Turner 2005)  4 ”,  55”h, dormant, E, fragrant, diploid.                             A tall light-yellow self with somewhat paler midribs, INCA TRUMPETER is ideal for back-of-the-border, corner-of-the-barn, driveway-lantern placement.  INCA TRUMPETER’s clear yellow trumpets herald the summer day with a clarion call to come enjoy the pleasures of the garden as well as its own four-way branching, nineteen buds, lightly ruffled petals, and storm-defiant, pencil-thin scapes.  Cold-hardy and fertile both ways.  [SUMMER MINARET (Toy Trumpets x Autumn Minaret) X Seedling (Purely x U)]  [$15.00 Clump]  **Please order this plant directly from GWF.

SHORT RIBS
(C. Turner  2008) Dor  36" M  6" Tet
A lovely peach/rose/lavender Tet blend with a crinkle-soft beige/yellow edge.  It’s deeper lavender midrib uniquely truncates at a rose pencil-outline encompassing a washed-peach halo which blends into a gold upper-throat and a green lower-throat.  Coloration increases as the thermometer rises. Started from outdoor sown seed, SHORT RIBS is cold-hardy and fertile both ways.  N/A

STIPPLED PEACH PARFAIT                                                (C.Turner 2000)  Dor. 28" M. 6.5" Tet                                   Stippled peach blend with light peach halo above gold throat. Different.   14 buds, 2 branches.  (Sheik of Araby × Carnival in Rio)  [Not Available in 2024]

SUMMER MINARET                                                            (Turner 00)  Dor. EM  46"  Dip  Noc.                                     Appropriately named, this 3.25" fragrant charmer does seem to dance and sway in the breeze.  Soft deep yellow star like blooms present themselves on tall, lovely well branched scapes. A new color dimension is added to this class of daylilies. Ideal for the back border or wherever a special effect is desired. Very fertile both ways with 32 buds on 4 to 5 branches, & hardy. Pod parent of INCA TRUMPETER. (Toy Trumpets X Autumn Minaret)  [$15.00 Clump]  **Please order this plant directly from GWF

TOYS IN THE ATTIC                                                               (Turner 2008)  3.25"  E.  41"h Dor dip  18 buds, 4 branches.       Nice tall small-flowered light yellow self.  Very pretty and airy in the garden. Good bud count & branching, and fertile.  ((Toy Trumpets X Unknown) X Unknown) [$15.00 DF]   **Please order this plant directly from GWF.