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 ‘Old Termite’ (Baxter, 2005)

Hemerocallis ‘Old Termite’ is a 2005 diploid introduction.

H. 'Old Termite' is simply "the brownest daylily in existence today" and has been since it was introduced in 2005. In gained a huge following when attendees of the 2006 AHS Region 15 Summer Meeting saw it in person for the first time discovered the claim was genuine. It continues to remain in high demand among daylily aficionados and growers.

This semi-evergreen diploid has a 4 ½" bloom and sits atop heavily budded 28" scapes beginning its display in the early midseason. The flower is brown with a deeper brown eye band... and even the unopened buds are brown in color. H. 'Old Termite' is very distinctive and will never be confused with any other daylily.

Analyzing the parentage of H. 'Old Termite' reveals another unique circumstance. The pod parent is the diploid H. 'Blue River' and the pollen parent is the tetraploid H. 'Matthew Martin'. Both parents were hybridized by the Doughertys of Knoxville, Tennessee and I discovered these plants at the AHS National Convention in 1995. H. 'Old Termite', H. 'Blue River', and H. 'Matthew Martin' are all noted for their ability to cross with both diploids and tetraploids.

This brown wonder flower is also fragrant!

Double Fans... $65.00

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