GHOST DANCER

GHOST DANCER Tet, E., Unusual Form - Spatulate (Reflexed)

32 x 7 1-2 lats + “Y” 15 buds. Pod and pollen fertile.

[{(ELEGANT FINALE x PAPER BUTTERFLY) x TECHNY PEACH LACE} x TWISTED SISTER]

There is a photo of GHOST DANCER on the frontispiece of Diana Grenfell’s The Gardner’s Guide to Growing Daylilies. She describes it as an “elegant reflexed spatulate, unusual daylily in pale otherworldly tints.”

I could hardly have said it better myself (probably not as well). GHOST DANCER has the base color of light cream which is overlaid with a wash of delicate rose pink. It displays an open spatulate form with long re-curved petals. The subtly lighter mid-rib and the cool delicious green throat combine to impart a pristine quality.

The name GHOST DANCER came to me when I first saw this plant bloom; both because of the color and form and the fact that there really is an “otherworldly” quality about it that borders on the spiritual. It makes you stop, stare and marvel at just how satisfying to the senses a flower blossom can be. I really enjoy placing a plant where the sun rises behind it. The ethereal delicacy of GHOST DANCER shines through. It is an early beauty and one of the first to greet the new season.