Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Favorite 2009 Double Daylilies
Siloam Double Fringe was one of my favorite doubles last year, not a stunner but a great performer. Henry 86 30EM5 Diploid.
At left is Peach Magnolia (Joiner 86) 32MLRe6 and the chief interest is the base color. Crossed with double stipples when available, and with other stipples including reblooming Gail Reese.
Dinner and a Movie (Apps 99) usually has a pistil, but not much pollen. I crossed this with Betty Harwood's stippled seedling, which was blooming late like this one.
Scatterbrain (Joiner 88) 32MRe6 is a "hose in hose" type double, and a Diploid. What I like is its "neutrality" and I'm hoping to get double kids that look more like the other parent.
Spacecoast Two Eyed Jack (Kinnebrew-J 06) Tet 24EMRe6, 90% double got a lot of pollen from the lavender-based Tet stipples. Goal is a big stippled double.
Darya (Pat Stamile 03) Tet 33MRe5.5 also got Tet stipple pollen whenever available. Second generation, I'll cross Darya kids with Spacecoast Two Eyed Jack kids, trying to bring out the recessive stipple in each.
Peggy Jeffcoat is a perennial popularity poll favorite, even though it's 15 years old (Joiner 95). 18MLRe6.5 Dip so I crossed it with my double stipples first, then with other diploid stipples.
Meringue Mirage (Apps 99) Dip 33M5.25 is 100% double, which would be great except it almost never has a viable pistil or stamen. I didn't get a single cross from it last year.
Newt's Folly, on the other hand, almost always has a viable pistil and a couple of stamens. Apps 95 27EM5 Dip. So I have lots of seed from crosses with double stipples, Bacon Gold Nugget and Lotsa Dots. Goal is another stippled double, but probably in two generations by crossing seedlings back to a stippled double. Labels: daylilies double daylily
