UNCLE ORANGE (Laffin 2024)  47" tall, 6.5" bloom, 4 branches, 29 buds, Mid, Dor, Tet

                                                       $120 DF

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Uncle Orange is my best orange yet, combining height and show quality scapes with a beautiful watermarked bloom.  Flower is bright reddish orange with a peach watermark and yellow-to-green throat. It is diamond dusted. The blooms are ideally spaced on tall, upright scapes with candelabra branching. 

 

Orange is one of my favorite colors for a daylily, but I like them to be different in some way from the older oranges - either in brightness, height, or an interesting bloom.  Uncle Orange hits all these traits, plus it has great branching, bud count, excellent vigor and cold hardiness.  Not a surprise given its excellent parentage: ((Up On The Roof x Orange Clown) X Doctor Handsome)), all truly excellent plants and great parents. I hit the jackpot with this combination:  I have been evaluating this one for years, and it just keeps getting better.  Fertile both ways.