Many of Long Island natives Patrick and Grace Stamile hybrids place well in AHS polls. "Strawberry Candy" is a bright pink, open flower with a rose-red eye and edge and a yellow-green throat. The 26-inch tall scapes carry 4- to 4 1/2-inch blooms beginning in early to mid-season. The plant is listed by nurseries as semi-evergreen but in colder growing zones the plant would revert to dormant patterns. "Strawberry Candy" won the society's Don C. Stevens award for best-eyed cultivar in 1995 and its highest honor, the Stout Silver Medal, in 1998. Another hardy Stamile hybrid, "Ruby Spider," is an early blooming dark red spider-shaped bloom with a yellow throat. "Ruby Spider" won the 2000 Lambert-Webster award for unusual form. "Custard Candy", the 1999 Stout winner, has 4-inch cream yellow blooms with maroon eyes. Among other honors, the 23-inch mid-season re-blooming dormant daylily won the 1996 Annie T. Giles award best for small cultivar.
"Betty Warren Woods," a pale yellow, 4 3/4-inch bloom on 24-inch scapes represents renowned Midwestern native R.W. Munson on many favorites lists. The mid-season bloomer won the 2000 Award of Merit. Munson's niece Elizabeth and her husband Jeff Salter created "Ed Brown," a 2006 Stout winner. Pink with a ruffled gold edge, this early to mid-season re-blooming plant boasts 5 1/2-inch flowers on compact 28-inch scapes. Salter's "Canadian Border Patrol" was named Don C. Stevens best-eyed cultivar of 2000. It boasts 6-inch purple-edged cream blooms with purple eyes and green throats on 28 inch scapes.
Several other daylilies regularly appear on cold-climate polls. Minnesota hybridizer Gary Schaben's 2007 Lambert/Webster Award best unusual form winner, "North Wind Dancer," sports large, elegant 7-inch lavender flowers with wide yellow-green throats on 42-inch scapes. Hanson's "Bela Lugosi", a deep 6-inch purple flower with a yellow throat rises on 33-inch scapes beginning mid-season. "Bela Lugosi" won the society's 2007 Lenington All-American Award for outstanding performance throughout most regions. "Primal Scream," another Curt Hanson hybrid, is a remarkably bright orange-tangerine with a green throat. Blooms that are 7 1/2 inches dance atop 34-inch scapes from mid to late season.