Steadfast Love

Description

Steadfast Love (Korth-P., – Korth-L.; 2024)

29”, 6”, EM, Dor., 4 branches, 20 buds, Tetraploid,

Lord of Life x Heart of the Sea

Cream with large lavender eye and purple outline, triple edge of purple, lavender and gold.

Every once in a while, we have a daylily that is a significant jump past either parent.  Steadfast Love exceeds pod parent Lord of Life with more lavender in color and multi-colored eye and edge.  Steadfast Love exceeds pollen parent Heart of the Sea with a much larger eye and edge.  Heavy texture and easy opening despite the large, ruffled edge add to the impressive traits of this flower.

We recognized the uniqueness of this flower early on and have many beautiful seedlings out of Steadfast Love.  It is easily pod and pollen fertile.  If you enjoy fancy eyed and edged flowers, Steadfast Love will produce many hardy seedlings that are truly special.   Below are some examples but we have many under evaluation.

In the garden, the flowers are good openers on fine scapes and very showy.  The heavy texture allows the flowers to withstand heat and rain.  In our zeal to propagate Steadfast Love, we have not allowed the plant to reach clump strength, but it will surely be a delight to have multiple flowers open on a garden clump.

The name Steadfast Love comes from the Hebrew word hesed.  It is used in the Old Testament about 250 times and is typically translated as steadfast love or loving kindness and reflects the care of God for his people.  We thought using hesed would be a difficult name, so Steadfast Love was selected.

We have very limited numbers of Steadfast Love plants available so order quickly.  We will be selling Steadfast Love as blooming size single fans.

 

Steadfast Love

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