This plant has so many outstanding features, I named it after my wife. Not that it is the most spectacular flower I have grown.... it isn't.... though the film does not capture all of the subtle colorations. I describe it as a "cream polychrome" with peach, pink and gold highlights, ivory midribs which become light pink as the day progresses, a light avocado-green throat which becomes lemon as the day progresses, and lemon-ruffled petal edges.

What makes this daylily so worthwhile to me is that it reblooms in New England, where rebloom is scarce. Actually, the rebloom scape comes up only about a week after the main scape, so this gives a long season of summer bloom (rather than bloom in September). The flower opens up early in the morning, for those of you who are up early enough to see it, and remains open until after midnight. It consistently opens well on cold mornings, of which we get plenty in New England.

The same bloom at 3 PM on a hot day. Really holds up well in the heat, as you can see.

Still the same bloom at 6 PM.

Even as a first-year seedling, this daylily was about twice the size of all of the other seedlings in the patch. Here you can see it sticking up well above almost all of the other blooms. I'm hybridizing for tall tetraploids.... I like my flowers where I can look at them without bending over.... so I was really pleased, after being tantalized for two years by this vigorous plant, and two scapes per fan coming up this year (1997), that the flower turned out to be so attractive.

Here is the first bloom on the rebloom scape.

The rebloom scape is about a foot shorter than the main scape, as you can see in this picture. When both scapes are in bloom, the effect is similar to viewing a canna.

I researched the parentage of Bobbie Chase and found that it has about 47% evergreen ancestry. Regardless, it behaves as a dormant in my garden, exhibiting none of the "sprangle-sprong" spring foliage that most Southern-bred daylilies show here, though I suspect it will also grow well in more Southern climes. A single fan went to Ron Valente in May 1999 for propagation and introduction. You have a long wait for this one - it appears to be a slow increaser, though not as slow as KATE CARPENTER, one of its parents.