A "stippled" daylily, sometimes called "plicata", has dots of color over the base color. Above is a Betty Harwood Diploid seedling I've been crossing to see what develops. Check back in about 5 years.
My favorite diploid stipple is Gail Reese, named by Bob Reese of Florida for his wife, registered in 2001. 28MRe2.75 with 6 branches, 50 buds in Florida. It reblooms in Philadelphia, so last summer I crossed it to northern everbloomers and big stuff. I hope maybe beginner's luck will give me something interesting as a base for improvement.
Bacon Gold Nugget (M. Herrington 1981) is bigger, but still grape stipples on cream yellow like Gail Reese. My "Prime Directive" for my first summer of dabbing pollen was to ONLY spread stippled or striped pollen, but then I could put pollen from my best "others" back onto the stipples and stripes. Otherwise I would have been spreading pollen from dawn till dusk.
Spotted Fever is probably the best-known "spotted double", a great name. 22M3.75 (Brown-Oakes 1995). Doubles are harder to hybridize because some of the stamens, and sometimes the pistil, turn into petalloids, but this one has good male and female parts on most blooms.
I like Happy Hooligan even better than Spotted Fever, because it's bigger: 18EMRe5.5 Talbott 1992. It rebloomed for a friend this year in Philadelphia, mine didn't.
A "stippled" daylily, sometimes called "plicata", has dots of color over the base color. Above is a Betty Harwood Diploid seedling I've been crossing to see what develops. Check back in about 5 years.
My favorite diploid stipple is Gail Reese, named by Bob Reese of Florida for his wife, registered in 2001. 28MRe2.75 with 6 branches, 50 buds in Florida. It reblooms in Philadelphia, so last summer I crossed it to northern everbloomers and big stuff. I hope maybe beginner's luck will give me something interesting as a base for improvement.
Bacon Gold Nugget (M. Herrington 1981) is bigger, but still grape stipples on cream yellow like Gail Reese. My "Prime Directive" for my first summer of dabbing pollen was to ONLY spread stippled or striped pollen, but then I could put pollen from my best "others" back onto the stipples and stripes. Otherwise I would have been spreading pollen from dawn till dusk.
Spotted Fever is probably the best-known "spotted double", a great name. 22M3.75 (Brown-Oakes 1995). Doubles are harder to hybridize because some of the stamens, and sometimes the pistil, turn into petalloids, but this one has good male and female parts on most blooms.
I like Happy Hooligan even better than Spotted Fever, because it's bigger: 18EMRe5.5 Talbott 1992. It rebloomed for a friend this year in Philadelphia, mine didn't.
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