GOLLWOG (Wild)
This hardy dormant has gone too many years without
notice. It was the most pronouced SPATULATE form in modern Hemerocallis
for more than 20 years before being discovered again in the Spider Polls
under the leadership of Rosemary Whitacre in the 1980's. Because I wanted
to work with extreme spatulate forms with very small closures (the distance
across the heart of the blossom), this cultivar came to my attention. And
I have never been disappointed. This nocturanlly-opening hardy dormant is
low-growing and compact in form with well-branched, heavily budded scapes
rising from the leaf mound to bloom just inches above the foliage tips.
The colour varies, as do all genetic melon hues, from a rich light apricot
to a soft, etherial peach with lavender tones in the midribs and salmon-pinkish
blushes in the widest parts of the petals.
In breeding, GOLLIWOG has given numerous well-branched
CRISPATAS as well as 1960-look hemerocallis. The colours have been predominantly
in the yellow range with some lavenders and orchid pinks, depending on the
pollen parent. When crossed with other genetic melons the results were a
small range of melon - peach - apricot colours. GOLLIWOG has been completely
pollen sterile for us and has presented this same problem in many of its
offspring. It is a very willing pod parent and produces many seeds per pod.
