Unknown heritage and here’s the story. May of 2011, began a terrible year in Vermont. There were two major floods in May and a repeat in August. Our lower daylily propagation field and hosta display garden were under ten feet of water for several days. We lost over 150 hostas down the Winooski River and other plants too. When the water receded in May, there was a clump of daylilies sitting by one of the lower walkways in the hosta display garden. We had so much work to do because of the floods that we just left the clump there. It had obviously been torn out of someone’s garden upstream. As summer progressed, the daylily bloomed and bloomed and bloomed on thick 42″ scapes. I asked everyone I thought “knew” daylilies if they had a name but no one did. I have called it Tall Orange Halo ever since. The blooms are 5.5″-6″, medium orange with a brown brushstroke halo. This is a vigorous grower that you can find at various places around our flower farm now. We obviously love it as the original plant and the three of us made it through three floods in one year.