Marg, there's a little info on this link..

http://www.hornbakergardens.com/catalog/w/id/1157/c/2/Daylilies/jade-star/details.asp
A bit more info on this site..

http://daylilydream.com/proddetail.asp?prod=D262

Sorry I couldn't help more but maybe someone has this one...Ellie

Hi Marg,
I grow "Jade Star." It was one of the first tetraploid daylilies I bought years ago from Wayside Gardens. My understanding is that Steve Moldovan hybridized the daylily and had reserved the name Jade Star with AHS. It was never formally registered. He sold the cultivar with that name to Wayside Gardens, who sold it for about 20 years as a Wayside exclusive in its mail order catalog, without formally registering it. Whether Moldovan sold just one cultivar, or several purple seedlings with white edges, I don't know. But not all Jade Stars are created equal. They vary in height and flower shape, as well as the width of the white border. Wayside may have tried to chemically multiply the daylily. Here's mine.

Debra

Ellie, thanks for the links. I'll be sure to check them out.

Debra, the picture of JS was not quite like yours, it was lighter in color with pale lilac edge color. It did have the white border but the throat looked like it was more green. I thought it was very nice. How tall does yours get? How big is the flower?

Marg

The flower on mine is about 6 inches, and the scapes are normally around 28 inches. This year the scapes were very short - maybe because it too me so long to weed in that bed.

Debra

O.K. Now I feel dumb. How can JS be both a dip and a tet? I checked out both links and each is different, one dip and one tet. Marg

You're not dumb. Moldovan was one of the first hybridizers to convert dips to tets chemically. It could be some of these plants reverted to dips. The one I have is a tet and will set seed with tets. Take a look at all the photos on Dave's Garden of Jade Star. Hardly any of them look alike, and none really looks like my mine, which doesn't have midribs. I wish I had the Wayside Catalog photo to show you. The dark purple color matches mine, but the the white borders were very wide. Where did you see the photo of Jade Star that made you interested in it?

Debra

The picture was at Red Lane Gardens. www.redlanegardens.com Go to pg. 5 Marg