Jennie Love

Introduced: 1956
Height: 40"
Ploidy: Diploid
Habit: Dormant?
Bloom time: Mid-MidLate, Extended
Bloom size: 4.5"
Bloom type: Single
Fragrant


In the introduction year, A.B. Stout described it as:
" All of these clones have foliage that is dormant or semi-dormant, and all have proved fully hardy.
...
The clones 'Jennie Love' and 'Charmaine Queen' are selections of numerous seedlings of several generations derived from wild plants of Hemerocallis fulva var. rosea of which the 'Rosalind' clone is the type plant. A seedling of one of the early generations was named 'Charmaine' in 1934.
The 'Jennie Love' daylily is dedicated to the memory of the writer’s sister-in-law. The flowers have spreading and somewhat twisted petals and recurving and twisted sepals as shown in figure 6 and the spread is about five inches. The mid-zone of the petals is bright red bisected by extensions of the golden throat. The general aspect of the flowers is a bright reddish pink, due to the scarlet-red veins that extend into the otherwise pink blades. The scapes are well branched and erect to a height of thirty-six to forty inches. "
( cited from: The Garden Journal, 1956, vol. 6, p. 9-11 )