Changes of Light

Name: Changes of Light

Seedling Number: CLSWS17

Bloom Diameter: 5.5”

Scape Height: 28”

Branches: 3

Bud Count: 14

Bloom Season: ML

Rebloom: No

Color/Description: Color changer starting the day a bright tropical orange, changing through the day to a bluish gray-lavender with darker veins above an army green to golden throat.

Ploidy: Diploid

Bloom Habit: Diurnal

Foliage: Dormant

Fragrance: No

Pod Parent: Challenger x Lucky Streak

Pollen Parent: Wabi Sabi

Year Bred: 2013

Rust Resistance: A+/3 years

Fertile: Both ways

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Comments: All I can say is, WOW! This one has been a spot of fabulous weirdness since the very first flower. Combining high rust and thrips resistance with late season flower, this is a lovely garden display. The flower starts out a bright orange in the morning, changing through the day to first varying shades of orange-peach, to beige, and then gradually turning into a lavender shade with strong veining, then on to lavender with bluish hints, sometimes with a greenish hue, with an intensely glowing throat of bright orange and army green by late evening. I have now raised quite a few color changers from my work with the Substantial Evidence family and this one is as odd and unique as anything I have seen. The deep green inner throat and bright orange outer throat combine to make a very distinct glow, especially int eh late evening when the green has become a deep army green and the petals are in their lavender phase. Then the orange section of the throat glows like a candle. The plant is attractive and with nice branching and decent bud count, the high scape to fan ratio means there is a lot of color for a long period when most of the daylilies in the garden are finished or come to it. Fertile both ways and makes highly rust resistant and equally unusual seedling. I think there is tremendous potential for breeding from Changes Of Light.

Mid-morning as the orange phase is just beginning to show peach highlights

Clump in mid-morning showing the power of a display of a mature clump

Clump in the early afternoon moving from the orange-peach phase into the beige coloring which leads up to the evening lavender phase.

Early evening showing the lavender phase in this clump shot

Early evening shot showing the lavender phase and the amazing bud counts seen on mature clumps

Late evening showing the final phase where the lavender takes on a bluish tone and the throat glows like a candle. The effect of the throat has proven impossible for me to fully capture in photos, but is stunning in person.