MITHRIL VEIL (King-Lamone 2002)
One of the flowers in the garden that make me
stop and smile. Not a fast grower nor a super-branched, flower-its-head-off
show-off splash like our LIMONCELLO, AMERSTONE AMETHYST JEWEL, PAUL WEBER
and DANCE ON THE WIND, rather MITHRIL VEIL is composed of a quiet symphony
of colours I love, on a flower form of exquisite simplicity. Touches of
lavender, salmon, pink, cream, yellow and grey made me think of the reflections
in Mithril Silver, hence the name. A favourite of landscape architect Werner
Groenemann. The spatulate petals open wide from the perianth tube and the
sepals, slender and straight, gently quill, adding to the delicate structure
of the form.
A nocturnally-opening dormant, it grows well and
is very hardy and emits a gentle, sweet fragrance. This one, as Jan Wyers
put it, "is that kind of daylily for which one pulls up a chair and
brews a cup of tea and sits down next to it, just to soak it in". Superb
with HIGHLAND SUMMERBIRD, and PALANTIR.
