Hemerocallis
'Siloam Button Box'
Breeder:Pauline Henry,1976

One of the top breeders of her time, Pauline Henry has won all the awards regarding daylilies and, foremost, the AHS Bertrand Farr medal for outstanding hybridizing, in 1985.
She worked exclusively on miniatures, giving the prefix "Siloam" to most of them as the name of the town where she lived, Siloam Springs , Arkansas .
Pauline introduced 467 new cultivars of beautiful, tiny different colored Hemerocallis for she said
" I wanted to be able to grow more than just yellows - I wanted clear reds, pinks, purples, whites and a multitude of eyed varieties. I also wanted to achieve a very full, compact, round form, which in the early 1970s was not widely available in miniature."
'Siloam Button Box' is 20'' tall and the round , creamy , deep purple eyed flower is 4.5" in diameter .

Watercolour on paper,2001
size cm 37x54