Introduced: 1950 |
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In the introduction year, A.B. Stout described it as:
" The two clones called the Red Knight and Red Lady Daylilies are sister seedlings that differ only slightly in stature and flower coloring. It has been decided that the two will be named as a pair that may be planted effectively together in gardens. They will blend in a unity of mass effect and color scheme, and on close inspection their points of distinction will add interest. The flowers, as illustrated on page 38, have a spread of about five inches.
The color pattern is two-toned; the throat is yellow and the blades are a shade of scarlet red (one of the standardized spectrum colors of Ridgway in "Color Standards and Color Nomenclature") that is almost nopal red. This is near the scarlet of the "Garden Dictionary" edited by Norman Taylor, and near 5 L 10 of Maerz & Paul, "A Dictionary of Color."
There is a slender but not very conspicuous stripe from the throat along the midvein of the petals. The intensity of the red pigments is only slightly darker in the mid-zone of the blades next to the throat. The shade of coloring is slightly darker in flowers of the Red Knight and the plants reach a mid-height of four feet, which is about ten inches taller than the scapes of Red Lady.
At New York, both clones are in maximum bloom during late July and the blooming has continued until mid-August. The foliage becomes dormant in winter and the plants have thus far been fully hardy at New York and in the plantings of the Farr Nursery Company at Weiser Park, Pennsylvania. "
( cited from: Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, 1949, vol. 50, p. 36-39 )