H. 'Secret Agent Babe'

H. 'Secret Agent Babe' is nearly 100% polymerous with 7½" blooms. In the picture above the blooms are 9 inches!! Imagine how big that beast is that is hovering over all the "babes!" Big just keeps getting bigger at Daylilies of North Carolina where size matters, too!

Daylilies of North Carolina is the leading hybridizing garden on the planet for the advanced development of the polymerous form of Hemerocallis. We continue to march forward with unequaled diversity of size, color, form, substance, rebloom, and all desired characteristics of polymerous daylilies!!

In addition to leading the Polymerous Revolution, our tetraploid breeding continues reaching new heights with incredible clarity of color, vibrance, and form. We are proud of our daylilies and strive to create flowers worthy of your garden.

Why multiple images of our flowers?

At Daylilies of North Carolina we are endeavoring to show multiple pictures of each flower on "individual cultivar pages." The picture above shows the cultivar page for H. 'Redefining Genetics' with 18 different images so that you can see the flower under different lighting, blooming, and environmental conditions. We do not want to post one "cover girl" picture that can misrepresent our flowers.

This website is a continuous work in progress and we started the individual cultivar pages with our own introductions. Please be patient as we continue the process by adding galleries of all the flowers growing at Daylilies of North Carolina.

Hemerocallis ‘Carolina Flying Poly Possum’ (Baxter, 2002)

Hemerocallis ‘Carolina Flying Poly Possum’ is a 90% polymerous 2002 introduction.

H. 'Carolina Flying Poly Possum' remains one of the more remarkable and admired full form polymerous daylilies since its introduction in 2002. The large 7" blooms are breathtaking. It is a true early morning opener as it opens in the in middle of the night and is registered with an "extended" bloom habit. A genuine nocturnal just like real possum in the wild, except H. 'Carolina Flying Poly Possum' has a pleasant fragrance.

The flower is a heavily ruffled pastel yellow with brilliant diamond dusting and a large soft red feathered eye. The raised midribs are very distinctive and give a sculpted look to this flat opening bloom. The petals have a thick substance, spongy in feel, and many daylily aficionados believe that H. 'Carolina Flying Poly Possum' is a tetraploid because of its characteristics. However, it is a true diploid.

H. 'Carolina Flying Poly Possum' begins in the early bloom season, often going into immediate rebloom. These instant rebloom scapes are often taller and more heavily budded than the first set of scapes. Here in central North Carolina it will rebloom again later in the season. I registered the scape height at 24" but because of its evergreen nature, the further south it is grown the taller the scapes and the more heavily budded and branched it will be. In central Florida it is a continuous bloomer.

Hybridizers will love this plant but will need patience with its pollen. Pod setting is not a problem, though. The parentage of this 90% polymerous daylily is H. 'Tepaled Teddy' × H. 'I'm Different'.

H. 'Carolina Flying Poly Possum' has a remarkable garden presence and always garners visitors' attention when it is is bloom.

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