Tuesday, June 10, 2008

More Florida Bloom in Philadelphia


Thin Man (Trimmer 02) is registered at 12 inches. New this year, so it's blooming on Florida schedule, where it's midseason now.
Second new daylily, ALSO a Trimmer 02 registration, is Eskimo Kisses. This one's only 4 inches, but diamond dusted. Too bad both of them are Tetraploids- I can't use my remaining Lovely Margie (Dip) pollen on them.
But Happy Returns (Dip) just started blooming here finally- it's been blooming elsewhere in PA and NJ for a couple of weeks, I hear. So I put Lovely Margie pollen from its last bloom Sunday on this. If it gives me a reblooming striated daylily, that's worth the effort. I planted some open crosses this spring, and after experiencing how time-consuming that was, I am only going to use pollen from my striated and stippled cultivars this year.

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