2025 Lambert/Webster Award: Ellen Laprise – ‘Isabelle Rose’

Registration Year: 2009
Scape Height (in): 59
Bloom Size (in): 7
Bloom Season: Early
Ploidy: Diploid
Foliage Type: Dormant
Fragrance: Fragrant
Bloom Habit: Diurnal
Flower Form: Single | Unusual
Bud Count: 43
Branches: 3
Seedling Number: 21-Mar
Color: pale yellow diamond dusted with little ruffled above extended green throat
Parentage: (Starsearch × Heavenly Curls)
Hybridizer(s): Laprise

About Ellen

Ellen Laprise is a Massachusetts-based daylily hybridizer and owner of Partridge Hill Gardens, where she focuses on hardy, high-performing cultivars for New England gardens.

Her well-known introduction, Isabelle Rose (2009), has become a standout unusual form daylily, noted for its tall scapes, strong bud count, and consistently beautiful blooms—and has gone on to earn the coveted Lambert/Webster Award.

About the Stout Silver Medal

The Lambert/Webster Award is the American Daylily Society’s top honor for unusual form daylilies. Given annually as a bronze medal, it recognizes the most outstanding cultivar in the Unusual Form class, based on votes from accredited Garden Judges.

Established to encourage breeding beyond traditional round or spider forms, the award specifically celebrates crispate (pinched or twisted), cascading, and spatulate daylilies whose long, dramatic segments fall outside the Spider and Spider Variant classes.

It is named for two pioneers of these forms—John Lambert, known for his diploids, and Richard Webster, known for his tetraploids—honoring their influence on the development of today’s Unusual Form daylilies.