Stout Award

[Scapehunter]

To the best of my knowledge these are the eligible cultivars for the Stout Medal/Award:

ADMIRAL'S BRAID
AUTUMN WOOD
BELA LUGOSI
BETTY WARREN WOODS
CANADIAN BORDER PATROL
CHANCE ENCOUNTER
CHRIS SALTER
CREATIVE EDGE
DARING DILEMMA
DENA MARIE
DRAGON KING
EL DESPARADO
ELEGANT CANDY
FOOLED ME
FORTY SECOND STREET
INDIAN GIVER
JEDI DOT PIERCE
KING KAHUNA
LAYERS OF GOLD
MADGE CAYSE
MAGIC CARPET RIDE
MASK OF TIME
NOSFERATU
PEACH MAGNOLIA
PEGGY JEFFCOAT
PRIMAL SCREAM
RASPBERRY CANDY
RUFFLED PERFECTION
SABRA SALINA
SEMINOLE WIND
SUSAN WEBER
YABBA DABBA DOO

Please add your comments, especially about plant habit. Many of these I have only seen pictures of, or seen once or twice in a garden. Perhaps that day was a good (or bad) day.

For me Seminole Wind is sometimes splotchy, whereas Elegant Candy is always perfect (but not as great a color to my eyes).

I would like to see a purple, such as Nosferatu win.

What are your reasons for liking or disliking one or the other....

[Rebecca]

There are only two on the list that I actually have and I do like them and feel either has merit, I'd still like to see 'Yabba Dabba Doo' win for the simple reason that it's a Spider (Varient) and the AHS doesn't really give enough recognition to that growing group as an acceptable form!


Rebecca

[alpha]

Rebecca,

If I remember correctly, there is a series of awards that a cultivar has to win to be considered for the Stout Medal. Sorry, but at the moment I can't remember the system(one of those increasingly frequent senior moments!). Given the ever increasing popularity of the spiders and ufs, I think it is only a matter of time before one does win the Stout.

Scapehunter,

I have, at one time or another, grown nine of this years candidates. I can immediately narrow my choice to one of three. The three cultivars are SEMINOLE WIND, CANADIAN BORDER PATROL, and CHANCE ENCOUNTER. SW and CE are both wonderful flowers. I've never had any quality problems with blooms from either. Both have good scapes, foliage(at least by the time summer gets here), bud counts and overall balance. The reason I would ultimately rate them just a little lower then CBP is that they have have been painfully slow to increase in my garden. CANADIAN BORDER PATROL has all the good qualities mentioned for the other two but has flourished from the moment it came to my garden. However, a few years back I saw a clump of SABRA SALINA growing in a display garden here in the midwest that really wowed me! There were maybe twelve to fifteen fans in that clump and there must have been thirty to forty flowers blooming that day. I couldn't take my eyes off of it. That daylily had great garden presence. My vote would easily go to SS.

Dale