KINDLY LIGHT (Bechtold)
This cultivar is perhaps the most famous
and most cited in literature of the Spider Form Daylilies. The true KINDLY
LIGHT and the perhaps five different clones (actually siblings) that are
in circulation, all introduced by Mr. Lemoine Bechtold through the nursery
Wilds of Sarcoxie, Missouri, USA, are all achievements of perfection in
breeding for the CLASSIC SPIDER form. This hardy dormant, nocturnally opening
yellow blooms, as does its impostors, atop unbranched scapes but at an excellent
height just above the foliage. The true KINDLY LIGHT shows, in cooler weather
and in the morning after cool evenings, a blush of salmon in an eyezone
area outside of the heart of the blossom. In heat and sun, this feint eyezone
is often not detectable. Seedlings of KINDLY LIGHT, however, often reveal
this genetic trait with strongly-contrasting eyezones. Even the 1st generation
TET KINDLY LIGHT registration BONEY MARONEY has this blush of salmon in
the eyezone area.
A practically impossible seed setter (there
have been few exceptions), its pollen has been moderately fertile and, with
the renewed interest in the Spider Forms generated by the AHS Spider Round
Robin Group, KINDLY LIGHT figures once again in numerous registrations.