The Mustardseed and Moonshine daylily coffee cup and saucer sets come in six varieties - Slow Burn, Midnight Magic, Fairy Filigree, Navajo, Vanilla and Oriental. The coffee cups have a capacity of slightly over 5 ounces (150 ml). The Daylily Fairy Filigree is a favorite designed in delicate shades of pink and green with dainty yellow adornments.Mustardseed and Moonshine is crafted in Cape Town, South Africa and designed by artist and founder, Kate Carlyle. It takes 17 days to make one piece of Mustardseed and Moonshine. Each petal is laid one at a time by Kate's team of artisans. Each one is then lovingly and carefully painted and then inspected by people assigned to each stage of quality control.
The period from 1700 to 1900 was an era of plant hunting, a time marked by the search for new daylily species. A theory popular among Westerners at this time was that the Garden of Eden could be recreated by gathering together the beautiful plants that had been scattered around the globe at the fall of Adam and Eve. In the 18th and 19th centuries botanist and plant collectors, Ernest Wilson, George Forrest, Francis Kingdon Ward, and Joseph Rock brought many new species of daylilies to Europe and America. Despite their efforts, by 1900 only half the known species of hemerocallis had been introduced to the West.