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We are pleased to have been selected by Mike Huben to release his introductions. Below are his descriptions. You can email the hybridizer Mike Huben at mike@huben.us or visit his blog site for more info about his breeding program. Click here to print an order form.
Mike Huben's 2021 Introduction
ALINA
ALINA
ALINA (2021)
34" E Re 3.25" DOR DIP Ext UFO
NearWhite Self
MH1331E = (Helicopter * MH1107N)
For decades I have wanted Nutmeg Elf in different colors with rebloom. I got it in melon with Helicopter, and now I have it in near-white! This is a breakthrough in small UFO's not just because it is a small spatulate, but for the unrivaled clear white with a wide-open green throat, cool morning opening, self-grooming and the strong northern rebloom. I knew it was an introduction even before the first flower opened, just from the color of the buds and the instant rebloom. 4 branches and 12 buds are not as good as Helicopter, but with a face like that who cares? The pollen is fertile: I don't know about the pods. Alina is named for my sweetheart, who has spirited me away to happiness in Ecuador.
$150.00 sf.

Mike Huben's 2020 and Future Introductions
DARKER THAN SIN
DARKER THAN SIN
DARKER THAN SIN (2020)
40" E 3" DOR DIP Ext
Gold Self
MH0966X = ("Red Corky" * Donna Diana)
What a contrast! A brilliant gold, trumpet shaped self with very dark scapes. It is self grooming, rainfast, and increases rapidly. 5 branches and 40 buds put on quite a show. Its one fault in my eyes is that the flowers don't open as widely as I'd like: imagine what you might get if you crossed it with my Helicopter, which reblooms and carries dark scapes!
$40 sf.

EMBARRASSINGLY EARLY
EMBARRASSINGLY EARLY
EMBARRASSINGLY EARLY (2020)
33" EE 3.5" DOR DIP Ext
Melon Self
MH1114C = (MH0021A * Ace Up My Sleeve)
This sibling to Vanilla Stella is being introduced as a breeder because it is an extremely pure melon flower that blooms a full week before Stella De Oro with 3 branches and 15 buds. It's an early morning opener even on 50 degree mornings. It does not rebloom for me, but should carry strong rebloom. Pollen is good, but will not set pods. The earlier we push rebloom, the more we will have each seasons, and this is a big step in the right direction. Cross to anything in my rebloom lines.
$25 sf.

FLURRIES
FLURRIES
FLURRIES (2020)
26" E Re 3.75" DOR DIP Ext
NearWhite Self
MH1415J = (Vanilla Stella * Precocial)
A diamond dusted, near-white, northern rebloomer with a green throat. It opens well in cool weather and closes well, not needing deadheading. It has excellent foliage that makes a great looking clump, slightly better than Icy Stella's. 4 branches and 15 buds.
$40 sf.

ICY STELLA
ICY STELLA
ICY STELLA (2020)
30" E Re 4" DOR DIP Ext
NearWhite Self
MH1412B = (Frozen * Precocial)
Another diamond dusted, near-white, northern rebloomer with a green throat. It opens well in cool weather and closes well, not needing deadheading. It has excellent foliage that makes a great looking clump. 4 branches and 15 buds. Slightly larger and whiter than Flurries. 3 branches and 15 buds.
$40 sf.

NIPPY
NIPPY
NIPPY (2020)
30" E 4" DOR DIP Ext
NearWhite Self
MH1430H = (Frozen * Chill)
A ruffled, very white with 5 branches and 32 buds. Does not rebloom for me, but with a bud count like that who needs it? It opens well in cool weather and closes well, better than its sibling Shiver, not needing deadheading. It's diamond dusted with a very green throat.
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NORTH MEETS SOUTH
NORTH MEETS SOUTH
NORTH MEETS SOUTH (2020)
26" EM Re 4" DOR DIP Ext
NearWhite Self
MH1406D = (Accentuate The Green * Evelyn Gates)
This is as close as I have come to my original goal of Stella De Oro rebloom with a ruffled white flower like Monica Marie. And it is excitingly close! About half the fans rebloomed last year: more rebloom should be expected in the south. A very near-white bagel with beautiful ruffling. It opens well in cool weather, and very importantly it also closes well so that it doesn't need deadheading. 4 branches and 17 buds. The foliage and clump look really good until it goes dormant, darker green than most near-whites. Anybody wishing to breed for beautiful northern rebloomers should use this for its size, clarity, ruffles, rebloom, good increase, foliage and clump. I'd recommend crossing it to anything in my rebloom lines. Pod and pollen fertile. And it goes without saying that I recommend this as an extraordinary garden plant.
$100 sf.

PRECOCIAL PRECOCIAL (2020)
18" E 3" DOR DIP Ext
NearWhite Self
MH1310.27 = (MH1112I * MH1118C)
I've always hedged my bets by having many independent lines. Approaching the same goal. This bet paid off with a tiny rebloomer that bloomed in the tree tray at about 4 months from seed. It's introduced as a breeding plant (not a garden plant) because it has two faults: only 2 branches with 7 buds and a poor-looking clump. But its' virtues include throwing early blooming seedlings, rapid increase, short scapes, clear whites with green throats (as you can see on its' kids, Flurries and Icy Stella below) and often a green overall cast on petals and sepals of some seedlings. Pods poorly, pollen is fine. Cross to anything in my rebloom lines.
$25 sf.
PRECOCIAL
SHIVER SHIVER (2020)
30" E 5" DOR DIP Ext
NearWhite Self
MH1430N = (Frozen * Chill)
A ruffled white with 5 branches and 29 buds. Does not rebloom for me, but with a bud count like that who needs it? It opens well in cool weather. It's diamond dusted with a green throat. The foliage is very good until late in the season, better than its' sibling Nippy. It also has much larger flowers than Nippy.
$40 sf.
SHIVER
Mike Huben's 2018 Introductions
PORCELAIN PORCELAIN (2018)
34" EM 3.25" DOR DIP
Melon self
MH1115R = (A Small Multitude * MH0902S)
Porcelain has small, round, pansy-faced, pale melon blooms with a green throat and wide, blunt sepals on amazingly well-branched scapes, 5 branches with up to 48 buds. But more importantly, the behavior of Porcelain is special. In Mike's awful garden with droughty conditions and record high populations of aphids and thrips, it still had the awesome budcount AND it did not drop buds (though almost everything else did.) A good increaser, but only a mediocre seed setter. Though it comes from rebloom lines, it does not rebloom for Mike. It might in the south.
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PORCELAIN
Mike Huben's 2017 Introductions
Mangoes and Chocolate MANGOES AND CHOCOLATE (2017)
40" E 2.5" DOR DIP
Yellow self
MH0966D = (Red Corky * Donna Diana)
This dark scape introduction is very species-like: graceful, long-branched scapes in an amazing profusion. Not the darkest scaped of Mike's introductions, but with a wonderful color that gleams across the garden. The dark scapes have 5 branches and 27 buds, and there is a strong red stripe on the sepal reverses. Mangoes and Chocolate is rare: a self-cleaner. The flowers furl to a beautiful, bud-like orange roll the first day, light brown the second, and drop off the third. This is really useful for such profuse bloomers! It's also an excellent, rapid increaser
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MANGOES AND CHOCOLATE
Vader's Choice
Vader's Choice scapes
VADER'S CHOICE (2017)
32" E 2.75" DOR DIP
Yellow self
MH1123A = (Golden Sprouts * Army of Darkness)
This one was registered as 'Vader's Choice' because the scapes are so very black. I knew it would be an introduction just looking at the scapes, before the flowers had even opened. It has only two minor faults according to my tastes: the flowers are yellow and they don't recurve as much as I like. The flowers have a green throat and bronze sepal backs and open well early in the morning even in 50 degree weather. More importantly the flowers furl well into beautiful, bud-like bundles, making this plant self-grooming. The stiff, erect scapes are very dark on all sides and have up to 5 branches and 30 buds. Vader's Choice presents its distinctive, black scapes for weeks before Stella De Oro blooms, and then starts blooming shortly after Stella. The foliage is terrific: dark, glossy, and unusually low. It is a vigorous increaser. The scapes really look this dark!

$30
VADER'S CHOICE
Mike Huben's 2016 Introductions
Commence COMMENCE (2016)
21" EE 4" DOR DIP
Melon Polychrome
MH1026.25 = (Ain't Yeller * Chill)
Mike's very best extra early to date. A very pale melon with a green throat that opened the first of June! 4 branches and 24 buds. Extra earlies need to open well in cool weather, and this one was flat open well before 7AM after a 55 degree night (I didn't get to check with cooler temperatures.) It has excellent substance and is rainfast, though it is not entirely sunfast. I love the wide, ruffled petals and cool melon color. There is nothing else like it during the extra early season. Vigorous, too! If you want to have a beautiful daylily that blooms with the June perennials but isn't yellow, this is the one. If you want to breed for early bloom to facilitate rebloom or to cope with short growing seasons, I highly recommend this one.
$30
COMMENCE
Darkness Rising DARKNESS RISING (2016)
54" EM 4" DOR DIP
Yellow Self
MH0971X = (From Darkness Comes Light * MH0466A)
A sulphur-yellow with a green throat, red markings on the backs of the sepals, and the best TALL dark scapes I've ever seen, with 5 branches and usually 23 buds. However, it frequently bud builds with up to 9 buds per branch, and I've seen 37 buds on some scapes. The darkness of the scapes persists longer than many other dark scape daylilies. It's a rapid increaser. The only fault is that it's yellow, instead of the white I eventually want. Darkness Rising should carry melon, meaning that you could leave the yellow behind in half the offspring in the next generation. This is from an excellent cross that gave me 3 introductions.
$40
DARKNESS RISING
Ethereal Pink ETHEREAL PINK (2016)
24" E Re 4" DOR DIP
Pink Self
MH0404.19 = (Boston Marathon * MH0207K)
The best, clearest, appleblossom pink color I have ever seen in a daylily, and on one of my continual rebloomers no less! I love the narrow, flat-open, ruffled form which I am working into my other narrow forms. An early morning opener with a green throat. Not crazy vigorous like its parent Boston Marathon, but adequately so. 3 branches and 12 buds, but who cares: it reblooms strongly!
$30
ETHEREAL PINK
Exalted Trumpets EXALTED TRUMPETS (2016)
44" E 3.5" DOR DIP
Melon Self
MH0463S = (MH0226E * MH0288J)
Modern trumpet form daylilies with modern ruffles and colors provide an important contrast to the usual bagel forms which so dominate our gardens. Exalted Trumpets is a true tall-and-small with excellent scapes that have 6 branches and 24 buds. Many other tall daylilies concentrate their branches in the last few inches, but Exalted Trumpets places the branches at wide intervals on the scape. The melon color is much less yellow than this picture shows, and the sepals have prominant red stripes on the reverse.
$25
EXALTED TRUMPETS
Gladycita GLADYCITA (2016)
36" EM 4" DOR DIP
NearWhite Self
MH0447A = (Ice Trumpets * Lights Of Valinor)
The most graceful near-white I've bred so far. Gladycita is named for my fiancee's mother in Ecuador. An early morning opener with excellent ruffling, a nice trumpety shape, and the best kind of white with a green throat. Parent of Sioux Hall: Galdycita throws extraordinary clarity and great form. Not a rapid increaser, but quite fertile. 4 branches and 12 buds in my garden, but much more at Harmon Hill Farm.
$40
GLADYCITA
Halloween Darkness HALLOWEEN DARKNESS (2016)
36" EE 4" DOR DIP
Melon Self
MH0735M = (MH0466A * From Darkness Comes Light)
My favorite garden plant among my dark scape introductions. Not quite as dark scaped or pale flowered as its sibling Army of Darkness, and not as tall as sibling Darkness Rising, but with a wonderful saturated melon color that verges on pumpkin and a green throat. The dark scapes have 4 branches and 33 buds, and there is a strong red stripe on the sepal reverses. Halloween Darkness will add a lot of excitement to your garden because the dark scapes and the first flowers appear very early, preceding Stella De Oro. Gorgeous and distinctive!
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HALLOWEEN DARKNESS
Sioux Hall SIOUX HALL (2016)
36" EM 3.5" DOR DIP
Violet purple with white midribs
MH0853R = (Sobek 93.36 * Gladycita)
This is a very intense and sunfast lavender with an extraordinary green throat that speaks for itself. It is named in honor of the late, great Sioux Hall (6th dan Aikido), who taught me so much about Aikido and raising children. I knew Sioux for 32 years, and she has been a close friend of my entire family. Sioux usually tied her red hair with a lavender ribbon. I'm registering this daylily with 5 branches and 33 buds, but sometimes it has 6 branches and 37 buds (and sometimes less.) The excellent scape, which is erect and doesn't lean at all, comes from Altissima breeding by Bob Sobek.
$30
SIOUX HALL
Virgin VIRGIN (2016)
44" EM 3.75" DOR DIP
NearWhite Self
MH0461F = (MH0219I * Ice Trumpets)
One of my favorites because of the extremely clear white color. This one really stands out in the garden for the brilliance of the white. 4 branches and 14 buds. From my tall-and-small near-white breeding.
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VIRGIN
Wompom Song WOMPOM SONG (2016)
30" E 5" DOR DIP Bud EMO
Melon Self
MH0016F = (MH9808J * Early and Often)
Named in honor the the brilliant Flanders & Swann song. Why Wompom Song? Because of the potential breeding versatility. It is an early, large, fertile, melon, bud building rebloom carrier with a green throat. Wompom Song has an extraordinary long bloom season due to strong and reliable bud building of up to 9 buds per branch in my garden, and it throws that characteristic to some of its offspring. Usually, Wompom Song has 4 branches and 30 buds. It's vigorous and attractive in the garden. Wompom is not registered as a rebloomer because it seldom reblooms in my home garden, but your mileage may vary.
$20
WOMPOM SONG
Mike Huben's 2015 Introductions
ARMY OF DARKNESS ARMY OF DARKNESS (2015)
32" E 4.25" DOR DIP EXT
Melon Polychrome
MH0735X = (MH0466A * From Darkness Comes Light)
An enormous breakthrough in dark scape breeding! This first dark-scaped melon has entirely dark scapes, 4 branches and 27 buds, long branches, and a strong red stripe on sepal reverse. The flowers are not fancy, but they are a distinctively colored light melon with cream tints, yellow green throat and yellow and green veins. I've used this one very heavily in my breeding program.
$30
ARMY OF DARKNESS
BUT I REPEAT MYSELF BUT I REPEAT MYSELF (2015)
30 E Re 3.5 DOR DIP EXT
NearWhite Self
MH0315Z = (Boston Marathon X Ace Up My Sleeve)
A very white northern continuous rebloomer with wide sepals and 4 branches with 15 buds. A very important parent! Throws very good branching and whiteness.
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BUT I REPEAT MYSELF
DARKNESS MUST GO DARKNESS MUST GO (2015)
36" EM 3.5" DOR DIP EXT
Yellow self
MH0887Y = (MH0220E X MH0451L)
A vigorous small yellow with dark scapes. The darkness persists much better than most others. From a separate breeding line. Should carry melon, and makes a fine clump.
$15
DARKNESS MUST GO
FROZEN FROZEN (2015)
30" EE 4.25" DOR DIP EXT
Cream Blend
MH0306A = (Many Melon Moons X Ace Up My Sleeve)
When you have that desperate need for your daylilies to start blooming, and Stella De Oro just doesn't satisfy, here is what you need. A round, ruffled heavily diamond dusted, light cream blend with melon and a small green throat. Great form, 6 branches and 39 buds, starts with Stella De Oro and blooms at least 4 weeks.
$25
FROZEN
SEEKER OF LIGHT SEEKER OF LIGHT (2015)
30" EM 3.75" DOR DIP UFO
Melon Reverse Bitone
MH0233D = (Ace Up My Sleeve X A Small Multitude)
A wide spatulate unusual form in a pale melon bitone with a green throat. It has that wildflower look which is so rare in modern dayliliy breeding. The scapes lean slightly outwards without falling, and the blossoms all aim towards the light. Four branches and 18 buds.
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SEEKER OF LIGHT
WAY UP THERE WAY UP THERE (2015)
60" M 4.25" DOR DIP EXT
Burgundy with White Midrib
MH0874M = (Arterial Blood * Pit Of Despair) Five feet tall! A very clear burgundy with a white midrib, black veins and a green throat. 5 well-spaced branches, 20 buds and bolt erect scapes that do not fall.
$30
WAY UP THERE
Mike Huben's 2014 Introductions
AIN'T YELLER
AIN'T YELLER
AIN'T YELLER (2014) 36" EE Re 3.25" DOR DIP NOC
NearWhite Self (MH0057F * Ice Trumpets)
5 branches and 30 buds. Opens well cool. My first triumph in extra-early near-white breeding. A creamy near-white (can't tell if it's from the yellow side or the melon side.) Even better, it throws kids that can be much earlier than itself! It can rebloom, and will be used to move rebloom lines even earlier.
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CHILL
CHILL
CHILL (2014) 28" EE 3.5" DOR DIP
NearWhite Self (Ice Trumpets * MH0207K)
A beautiful extra early, ruffled near-white with a sunfast green throat.
$25

CLARITY OF PURPOSE
CLARITY OF PURPOSE
CLARITY OF PURPOSE (2014) 44" E 5" DOR DIP EXT
NearWhite Self (MH0219I * Ice Trumpets)
3 to 5 branches and 15 to 25 buds. An extremely clean near-white with a green throat, white veins, good substance and heavy Diamond dusting. Great foliage, increases well, and very aphid resistant.
$25

GREEN EFFUSION
GREEN EFFUSION
GREEN EFFUSION (2014) 21" E Re 3" DOR DIP
NearWhite Self (MH0331A * Vanilla Stella)
Green Effusion is the second of a series of perfect little white flowers with green throats that rebloom in profusion. From its parent Vanilla Stella it inherits northern rebloom, rapid increase, excellent form and a very green throat. It had 4 branches and 12 buds in my garden, but at the Harmon's it skyrocketed to 32 inches, 5 branches and 50 buds on some scapes! The green radiates out of the throat in the veins, even more than for its sib Accentuate The Green. I also love the up-facing habit of the flowers. One small detail that is really attractive when you notice it is the rosy color of the pollen sacks against the green throat before they open. This one has one minor flaw: it doesn't open well after cool nights.
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YEARN TO BE CLOUDS
YEARN TO BE CLOUDS
YEARN TO BE CLOUDS (2014) 38" EM Re 3.5" DOR DIP
NearWhite Self (MH0219I * Ice Trumpets)
5 to 6 branches and 21 buds. A near-white with a green throat, a faint green overlay, good substance and extreme diamond dusting. Flowers are held facing upwards, with the petals lifting off the sepals. Instant rebloom, great foliage, excellent scape and rapid increase.
$25

Mike Huben's 2013 Introductions
ACCENTUATE THE GREEN
ACCENTUATE THE GREEN
ACCENTUATE THE GREEN (2013) 29" E 3" DOR DIP
Near white self rebloomer. (Frequent Flyer * MH0207K)
The first of a series of perfect little white flowers with green throats that rebloom in profusion. From its parent Vanilla Stella it inherits northern rebloom, rapid increase, excellent form and a very green throat. The green radiates out of the throat in the veins. Mike doesn't usually do sib crosses, but he has a lot of seedlings of Accentuate The Green with its sibs and MH0837A because the green-on-white potential here is so high! 17 buds.
$20

BRILLIANT BOUQUET
BRILLIANT BOUQUET
BRILLIANT BOUQUET (2013) 28" EM 3.5" DOR DIP
Cream self.
(Sunshine On Clouds * MH0207K)
With good behavior and foliage like Sunshine on Clouds, Brilliant Bouquet covers itself in bloom, at times giving a "cushion mum" effect. The photo is ungroomed except for liveheading the previous day, and it is unnecessary to remove the spent blooms because they close well. With 5 branches, 28 buds, some bud building and some rebloom, that means a long season covered with flowers.
$20

HELICOPTER
HELICOPTER
HELICOPTER (2013) 36" EM 3.5" DOR DIP
Melon self
(A Small Multitude * MH0315E)
Helicopter is a small melon spatulate spider UFO with one-time rebloom (late). Its plant habit resembles Nutmeg Elf (McCabe 1978), an Award Of Merit winner. A forest of slender, well branched scapes floats numerous flowers well above the foliage and well separated from each other. A great increaser with four branches and 18 buds.
$25

INDELIBLE BLOOD
INDELIBLE BLOOD
INDELIBLE BLOOD (2013) 44" M 4" DOR DIP
Red self.
(Sobek 90.34A * Red Spire)
The photograph shows off the beautiful green throat, hints at the velvety sheen and the oxblood-red darkness, but it doesn't show the true depth and intensity of the dark red color. Indelible Blood is very simply Mike's most durable red. Very sunfast - it doesn't curl, slick, fade or melt, not even in 100+ degree heat. It does not show thrips or aphid damage in Mike's unsprayed garden. It is unfazed by rain. No blotchy petals from insects or water. The flowers close tight: no need to deadhead.
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MAGENTA KISSES
MAGENTA KISSES
MAGENTA KISSES (2013) 28" E 3.5" DOR DIP
Near white with magenta eye - Rebloomer Nocturnal
(Frequent Flyer * MH0207K)
Magenta Kisses has beautifully clear colors and a sharply defined, very green throat. It is a child of Frequent Flier, which can act as a color clarifier and often passes rebloom. It is a consistent one-time rebloomer in New England, and could be an important part of anybody's northern rebloom program. Even though it has only three branches and ten buds, that's not important because of the rebloom. Because it is only a modest increaser, Mike recommends crossing it with rebloomers that have rapid increase.
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O POSITIVE
O POSITIVE
O POSITIVE (2013) 46" EM 3.25" DOR DIP
Red with dark band.
(Crazy Kids * Indelible Blood)
Vigorous, tall, sunfast, well branched and budded and beautiful. The instant Bob Sobek saw it, he said he wanted it: and not too surprisingly, it is out of one of his introductions. With 6 branches and 24 buds with excellent foliage, it puts on a terrific display for a long time. O Positive has a ruffled bagel form or perhaps you could say it resembles a red blood cell (but it's too big to be named Erythrocyte.)
$35

PAEAN FOR JOCELYN
PAEAN FOR JOCELYN
PAEAN FOR JOCELYN (2013) 48" E 4" DOR DIP
Near white self.
(Sobek 88.40A * Ice Trumpets)
One of Mike's first really good tall and small near-whites. Paean For Jocelyn has excellent branching and budcount that it inherited from both parents combined with species-like graceful scapes. It is named in memory of Jocelyn Spragg, a dear friend and stalwart of the New England Daylily Society. Tall whites like this stand out in the garden even if their flowers are small. If you will pardon the pun, it is a high achievement.
$20

Mike Huben's 2012 Introductions
Fountain Of Blood
Fountain Of Blood
FOUNTAIN OF BLOOD (Huben 12) 44" M 3.5" Dor Dip ( Siloam Plum Tree x Red Spire ) Seedling MH0378V
Velevety, brilliant fire engine red with green throat. Excellent foliage and increase and excellent breeder - pod and pollen fertile. 40 buds, 6 branches.
$20
Height Of Fashion
Height Of Fashion
HEIGHT OF FASHION (Huben 12) 44" M 4" Dor Dip ( Frequent Flyer x MH0207K ) Seedling MH0403.35
Tall-and-small, well-ruffled pink with a dark eye and green throat. Rapid increaser stands erect and has splendid foliage. Something of a bitone. Strong pollen parent. 20 buds, 4 branches.
$20
White And Nerdy
White And Nerdy
WHITE AND NERDY (Huben 12) 28" EM 4.5" Dor Dip ( MH0034F x Ace Up My Sleeve ) Seedling MH0321A
Sib to Snowy Stella. Continuous rebloomer that is not yellow. Whiter than any tetraploid "white", has a green throat good ruffling and heavy diamond dusting. 16 buds with 3 sets of scapes in Mike's garden. Pod and pollen fertile. When crossed with other continuous rebloomers, it throws a high percentage of reblooming kids, great color clarity, high budcount, large green throats and a great deal of green in sepals as well. This one is named for Mike's personal theme song, "Weird Al" Yankovic's "I'm Too White & Nerdy".
$25
Mike Huben's 2011 Introductions
Arterial Blood
Arterial Blood
ARTERIAL BLOOD (Huben 11) 44" M 3.5" Dor Dip ( ( City Of Sin x Pardon Me ) x Red Spire ) Seedling MH0377C
Tall-And-Small Red self. Brilliant velvety, saturated, flaming lipstick-red flowers with green throats standing tall above the foliage. Thrips and sun resistant. Excellent increase. 27 buds, 5 branches.
$20
Venous Blood
Venous Blood
VENOUS BLOOD (Huben 11) 50" M 4.5" Dor Dip ( Sobek 93.36 x Red Spire ) Seedling MH0379B
Tall-And-Small Clear, sunfast velvety red-purple with yellow-green throat. Vigorous increase. 34 buds, 5 branches.
$20
Mike Huben's 2010 Introductions
A Small Multitude
A Small Multitude
A SMALL MULTITUDE (Huben 10) 44" EM 2.5" Dor Dip Noc ( Corky x Early And Often ) Seedling MH0042D
Gold Self. Tall and Small. Minute, species-like spatulate flowers on tall, well-branched scapes. Extraordinary breeder.
$15
Ace Up My Sleeve
Ace Up My Sleeve
ACE UP MY SLEEVE (Huben 10) 22" E 4.0" Dor Dip ( Sunshine On Clouds X Early And Often ) Seedling MH0067D
Near white self. Northern Continuous Rebloom. Increases slowly but an exceptional breeder of continuous rebloomers.
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Boston Marathon
Boston Marathon
BOSTON MARATHON (Huben 10) 24" E Re 3.5" Dor Dip Noc ( Frequent Flier x Early And Often ) Seedling MH0013F
Pink with rose eye. Northern Continuous Rebloom. A pretty pink rebloomer with great green throat. Blooms until frost.
$15
From Darkness Comes Light
From Darkness Comes Light
FROM DARKNESS COMES LIGHT (Huben 10) 34" E 3.5" Dor Dip Noc ( ( Ariel x Boston Symphony ) X A Small Multitude ) Seedling MH0231D
Cream blooms on inky purple scapes. 25 buds, 4 branches. Exceptional plant habits.
$15
Let Me Be Clear
Let Me Be Clear
LET ME BE CLEAR (Huben 10) 26" EM 4.0" Dor Dip ( Frequent Flier x ( Millie Schlumf x Early And Often ) Seedling MH0203D
Icy Pink with faint band. Northern Continuous rebloom. The clearest pink rebloomer to date. Rapid increaser. Excellent rebloomer. Blooms until frost.
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Umpty Kajillion
Umpty Kajillion
UMPTY KAJILLION (Huben 10) 42" E 3.5" Dor Dip Emo ( Aerial x Boston Symphony ) Seedling MH0047Q
Melon with cream polychrome. 40 buds and 6 branches. Exceptionally floriferous, terrific scapes.
$15
Mike Huben's 2009 Introductions
Begin With A Bang
Begin With A Bang
BEGIN WITH A BANG (Huben 09) 34" EE 4.5" Dor Dip ( Ruffled Ivory x H. lilioasphodelus ) Red blend.
What's that red Amaryllis doing in the daylily bed? In mid-June? Begin With A Bang is the first good red in Mike's garden, and begins the growing season with some of the earliest dormant foliage to emerge. Beautiful gray-green bullets of foliage that scoffs at late spring frosts. The foliage is erect, disease resistant, and stays beautiful until autumn frost. Mike always wanted to introduce this one, but it increased very slowly in his garden. When he finally put some into a good location at Harmon Hill Farm, it increased very nicely. Begin With A Bang has got some terrific qualities: it's a true EE, beginning a week before Stella De Oro. Its size and color are much better than any other red at its season. Don't you hate those brick colored reds? Begin With A Bang is a light red over a very pale yellow base. Both parents contributed to the color clarity. Where did the red come from? Well, Ruffled Ivory has a faint red overlay that Mike didn't notice until this kid alerted him. It's diamond dusted, sun fast and has a yellow-green throat. It always opens well in cool weather, and looks great in a clump. 12 buds per scape, yet it blooms well into midseason. If you'd like to breed for modern-looking EE reds, this is where Mike suggest you begin. He attributes many of the good qualities to its species parent, H. lilioasphodelus: the earliness, great foliage, good opening, and frost hardiness. Or if you're one of us who can't wait to get those first daylilies of the season, this one is for you.
$15
Vanilla Stella
Vanilla Stella
VANILLA STELLA (Huben 09) 20" E 3.0" Dor Dip ( Seedling x Early And Often ) X ( Sunshine On Clouds x Early And Often ) Near white self.
Pronounced "vanELLA stella". Mike's most exciting near-white rebloomer. It's not the whitest, though it's far from cream. It has a nice green throat, a voluptuous bagel form, ruffles, and three sets of scapes per year in Mike's garden! This past year, Vanilla Stella bloomed continuously until frost in November at Harmon Hill Farm in New Hampshire.
Bob Sobek and Mike Huben are using Vanilla Stella heavily in their breeding: each has hundreds of seedlings coming from it. It's a very rapid increaser that throws near white seedlings with great green throats. Presumably, it passes its rebloom when crossed appropriately. We'll know for sure next year. It's a great as a pod or pollen parent.
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Mike Huben's 2008 Introductions
Vanilla Gorilla
Vanilla Gorilla
VANILLA GORILLA (Huben 08) 44" M 8.0" Dor Dip UFO ( Jerry's Whirligig X Magic of Oz ) Cream Self. Seedling number: MH0168
This daylily is named for Snowflake, the albino gorilla, who recently died. This UFO measures about 8 inches, and has been drawing a great deal of attention at Harmon Hill Farm over the past four years. 5 to 6 way branching, 20 to 24 buds. Pod and pollen fertile. This was a fun cross for Mike, partly to test the pod fertility of the enormous Jerry's Whirligig, and partly to see what happens in the way of large offspring. Like Jerry's Whirligig, VANILLA GORILLA has wide petals in a cascade form: it reminds Mike of knuckle walking with the massive arms of a gorilla. Now, you could say some daylilies knuckle walk because the scapes fall, but VANILLA GORILLA's scapes stay upright. Mike is so focused on his reblooming goals, that he initially ignored this one, and it was rescued by Carl.
2013 AHS Honorable Mention Award
$20
Mike Huben's 2007 Introductions
Ice Trumpets
Ice Trumpets
ICE TRUMPETS (Huben 07) 30" E 3.5" Dor Dip EMO ( Boston Symphony * (Snowed In * H. yezoensis) ) NearWhite Self. Seedling number: MH0055D
The fashion for large, ruffled, round, eyed, edged, tetraploid daylilies has brought about neglect of other forms. In years past, many daylilies were celebrated for their simple, delicate, wildflower-like forms. Names like Corky and Golden Chimes are not much remembered, and their forms never made the transition from yellow to other colors. Ice Trumpets is an important step in Mike's quest for Golden Chimes in near-white. In just two generations from the species yezoensis, he has a very white, very green throat, narrow petalled trumpet form. As a matter of fact, it looks a lot like a small Easter Lily (though it is nowhere near as white as the real thing.) It has 21 buds and 4 branches for Mike. Nearby in the Sobek garden and at Harmon Hill Farm it does MUCH better, and puts on a show that drew Mike from across the garden. This one is distinctive in the combination of form and color. The height doesn't reach Mike's ultimate goals (it's a mere 30 inches) but it's still a literal standout. Mike has bred with it very heavily: it has almost everything he wants except more height. No trace of rebloom here or in Utah, though the F1 parent does rebloom. Ice Trumpets is a great color clarifier in Mike's breeding, and some of its children are among the whitest daylilies he's ever seen. Others have excellent height, budcount, branching, and trumpet form. Incidentally, Ice Trumpets demonstrates the principle that even starting with a species, in two generations you can be back to near-white with green throats. Too much daylily breeding is aimed at immediate results in the first generation, and too little plans on success reclaiming recessive characteristics in the second generation.
$15
Snowy Stella
Snowy Stella
SNOWY STELLA (Huben 07) 24" E 3.25" Dor Dip NearWhite Self. Seedling number: MH0257C
At any northern nursery, Stella De Oro sells like hotcakes because customers are told it reblooms. The question most often heard is ?Do you have it in other colors?" At last, Stella De Oro?s rebloom is available in a near-white. Snowy Stella is definitely a near-white, and definitely a very strong northern rebloomer. It increases very well, has an excellent stature, 16 buds on erect scapes, blooms are well presented, has a nice clump form, and pretty much all the fans rebloom. Scapes are somewhat staggered too: that prevents gaps in the bloom. Compared to Stella De Oro, the flowers are similar in size and form. The scapes have twice as many buds, and the continual rebloom is far more certain and abundant. The plants are slightly shorter, and bloom starts a week or two later. It has a few minor faults: it's not the whitest white (it is tinged with apricot, though it beats most recent tetraploids), the throat bleaches from green to yellow in the sun, the pistil is sometimes curly or small (as in White Lemonade), and it's only an OK pod parent: doesn't produce that many seed. Many people have tried and failed to produce northern rebloomers in other colors. Snowy Stella took 10 years, 4 generations, thousands of seedlings, the rebloom genetics of Apps, Millikan, and Sobek, and the near-white genetics of Millikan, Hansen, and Gates. The ancestry is:
Snowy Stella: (Winter Wonderland * Early And Often) * (Sunshine On Clouds * Early And Often)
Sunshine On Clouds: (Happy Returns * Deicer) * (Three Seasons * Monica Marie).
Early And Often: Sunny Honey * (Three Seasons * Tuscawilla Tranquility). The secret to the breeding of Snowy Stella is the poor conditions for rebloom in the breeding beds. Dry, poor soil; shade and root competition from trees; crowding and low heat in a coastal zone 6. If Snowy Stella will rebloom under those conditions, it will rebloom anywhere. Its grandparent, Early And Often, has demonstrated this principle.
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Mike Huben's 2006 Introductions
Kanai
Kanai Sensei
KANAI SENSEI (Huben 06) 18" E Rebloomer 3.0" Dor Dip EMO (Early And Often x Rosy Returns) Melon polychrome. Seedling number: MH0010.4
Kanai Sensei is named for Mike's Aikido and Iaido teacher for 20 years. It always opens to a perfect little bagel with a peculiarly difficult to describe color. It has a tiny green throat, and somewhere between 6 and 16 buds depending on how well it is grown. It's sun fast, and has excellent low foliage. What makes it special though (besides the excellent rebloom) is the phenomenal increase. It's the fastest increaser in Mike's garden, yet doesn't seem to get too crowded. Its small stature, rapid increase, good foliage, rebloom, and nice clumping habit make it well suited for edging. As a parent for rebloomers, it throws all those characteristics very nicely.
$15
Sunshine
Sunshine On Clouds
SUNSHINE ON CLOUDS (Huben 06) 26" E Rebloomer 4.25" Dor Dip ( Happy Returns X Deicer) X (Three Seasons X Monica Marie) Cream with pale midrib. Seedling number: MH9872I
Mike had no intention of introducing this seedling: it wasn't white, it only rebloomed a bit, it didn't increase as fast as his other rebloomers, it was a reluctant pod parent. But Bob Sobek proclaimed it the outstanding clump in Mike's garden for the brilliance, unique shade, and floriferousness. It is a brilliant light yellow, in the cream range but with none of the dullness of most creams. Mike attributes that to the extreme diamond dusting. The upfacing blooms have a yellowgreen throat. Crossed with EARLY AND OFTEN, it is the parent of his first nearwhite rebloomer, and the grandparent of his latest crop of nearwhite rebloomers. It has 18 buds on three branches. In Mike's garden, Sunshine On Clouds reblooms lightly, but in other people's gardens, it is a much stronger rebloomer.
$15

Mike Huben's 2003 Introductions
Delicate
Delicate Lace
DELICATE LACE (Huben 03) 18" E Rebloomer 4.0" Dor Dip Fra Ext (( Monica Marie X Stella De Oro) X Spring Frolic) Cream Self.
What an unusual form! Quite orchid-like: any narrower and it would be spatulate. The foliage is truly dwarf, with a flower large enough to surprise: it's almost a rock garden plant. Blooms start out cream, but rapidly fade in the sun to a highly diamond-dusted pearly polychrome. It usually blooms two sets of scapes for Mike, but more in other people's gardens. 8 buds. It throws excellent reblooming kids of all shapes and sizes, and carries melon.
$15
Flowers Of Sulphur
Flowers Of Sulphur
FLOWERS OF SULPHUR (Huben 03) 20" E Rebloomer 4.25" Dor Dip Vfr Ext ((Monica Marie x Stella De Oro) X Spring Frolic) Yellow Self.
Why another yellow rebloomer? Well, it's a pure sulphur-yellow self, all the way into the throat, much bigger than most others, strongly diamond dusted, opens well, and has a delightful short stature. Only 9 buds (2 more than STELLA DE ORO), but routinely blooms at least two sets of scapes. Breeds rebloomers, and carries melon.
$12
Twist
Twist Again
TWIST AGAIN (Huben 03) 28" E Rebloomer 5.0" Dor Dip ( Cool Spice x Spring Frolic ) YellowGreen Self.
The longest-blooming daylily in Mike's garden. Four years running it has bloomed for 11 weeks on three sets of scapes. The color is a very cool yellow-green that fades in the sun to a remarkable cream and green giving the impression of a cream flower with a green bullseye. There is no other northern rebloomer on the market with this color. It has an excellent budcount of 20 (unusually high for a rebloomer.) The heavily ruffled petals twist differently in every flower, providing lots of motion in this unusual form. This one sells in August and September when people see the rebloom.
$15


Mike Huben's 2001 Introductions
Early
Early And Often
EARLY AND OFTEN (Huben 01) 26" E Rebloomer 4.0" Dor Dip (Sunny Honey X (Three Seasons x Tuscawilla Tranquility)) Peach Polychrome.
Honorable Mention award 2006
At last: a northern rebloomer that isn't yellow or gold. The heart of Mike's breeding program, producing a great diversity of seedlings, many of them rebloomers. Very rapid increase. Tested in WV for two seasons and found highly rust resistant. Early And Often was Mike's first introduction, and has lived up to its promise as a continuous rebloomer, the only plant in the garden that blooms non stop from early July until frost. Some growers report as many as seven sets of scapes per season. Unlike other diploid rebloomers, it is a color clarifier and readily gives up the melon tones in seedlings.
$15

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