KISS ME YOU MAD FOOL (Laffin 2022) 46" tall, 6" bloom, Mid-Late season, Dormant, Tet, 4 branches, 19 buds
DF $40
If there's one thing I love, it's a tall, superbright orange daylily sitting atop an excellent plant. Rather than the shorter, old-fashioned oranges, I'm always shooting for something big and new that screams across the garden, saying "Look at me!" KISS ME YOU MAD FOOL is all of that and more. This showy orange has a saturated red eye (traceable all the way back to the classic Fooled Me) - bright as lipstick, so I named it in memory of an old friend who always used to joke about the dialogue in old movies. If there are any other oranges this tall with this kind of bloom, I'm not aware of them. Bright and cheery, the blooms are very eye-catching, up close and from a distance. Four branches, nineteen buds, and very, very fertile both ways. Excellent plant habit - increases nicely and is a very hardy dormant. Parentage is: ((Staghorm Sumac x Matchless Fire) x Electric Man). You could say it's a noisy plant - it shouts in the garden and laughs at cold winters. An excellent all-around new tall orange!
