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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Favorite Late and Reblooming Daylilies

"Florida Rebloom" on this year's arrival Popcorn Pete (Petit 02) 25MRe6 Tet, and rebloom on Northern-bred Eyes on the Prize (Emmerich 2002) EMRe5.5 Tet. And I had NO TET STIPPLES blooming to pollinate them! I guess I will have to learn how to freeze pollen next year.

Apps' Rosy Returns won't ever win a beauty contest, but it's one of the half dozen best rebloomers, and it's not gold or yellow! 16EERe3.75 Dip.

Trahlyta (Childe 82) 30EMRe6.5 Dip was a contributor to many of Margo Reed's introductions, and I have seeds from crosses with a couple of violet-based stipples, the best of which I hope to cross against each other.

Jim Murphy's 2004 Margo Reed Indeed 28MLRe7.5 Dip is a great name, probably inspired by garden visitors mistaking it for one of Margo's. I wonder what it would look like crossed with Pink Stripes? Hopefully in two or three years I'll have an example. Will I get red stripes on cream, or white stripes on cream? Or something completely different? That's what's addicting about hybridizing- it's like gambling with the lotto drawing held in three years. Stay tuned!

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Friday, March 19, 2010

Mid-July Favorite Daylilies

Brown Exotica (Gossard 04) 43M9 is really big for a DIP, not exactly brown but definitely exotic. I'm trying to take it even further out by crossing it with my stripes.

Fox Ears is a late- this is ffo first full open. Ned Roberts 02 40ML8 Dip. I got pods crossed with Peppermint Ice and Pink Stripe, and later crosses with my 2 reblooming stipples.

Karen Burgoyne (Harwood 98) 30M5 Tet is New Jersey bred. When stippled tets weren't available, I did cross this with a couple of good reblooming Tets, but since Mike Huben has pretty well established that rebloom is recessive, I'll have to decide whether to continue that path. Mike presented to Garden State Daylily Growers Club last November, and said his successful crosses for rebloom have almost all involved four reblooming grandparents. One grandparent on each side can be a Southern rebloomer (reblooms in the south, but gets killed by frost in the north before reblooming).

Eskimo Kisses isn't an exciting color combination, but that's a thick edge for growing in Pennsylvania. Trimmer 02 26MRe4 Tet. So I crossed it with tet stipples, hoping for a stipple with an edge in a couple of generations.

Fashion Police. This is the biggest edge I've got. I'm really not a big fan of how it looks some days in the garden, but as a breeder for edges, it's my ace, I hope. Trimmer 2005 34MRe6.25 Tet. Evergreen, but it made it through last winter in Philadelphia.

Labels: Daylilies blooms

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Early July Favorite Daylilies

Twisted Mint Julip first full open. Dan Hansen 07 36EM8 Tet. A Desert Icicle kid, diamond dusted UF. How could I possibly improve on this? Well, it doesn't rebloom. But I crossed it with my tet stipples unless none were blooming; then I crossed it with a Northern reblooming Tet.

How Beautiful Heaven Must Be, universally known by its acronym HBHMB. Jack Carpenter scored with this; it lives up to the name! 26EMRe7.5 Tet registered in 2002 and still selling for $30 - $50! But I'd like to see little dots all over it, while keeping the base color and edge. Is that sacrilegeous?

Party Pinafore ffo 7/8. Kirby 99 20EM5 Dormant Dip. Jack Carpenter converted this to a Tet, and has introduced several of its kids, if this isn't pretty enough for you. I crossed it with stripes, because my brain is obviously damaged. Like crossing Jessica Simpson with Dave Letterman.

Pirate Beads ffo July 8. Another Pennsylvania native (Kendig 02) 21M5.5 Tet Evergreen. The edge gets better after the first day. Nice eye and edge, it just needs some purple dots on that nice white surface!

It's all in the eyes of Julie Newmar (click on the photo for a full sized view, then zoom in!) Morss 2000 32ERe7 Evr Tet.

Lies & Lipstick (Kinnebrew 03) 25EMRe5.5 Tet is an example of what happens when a Southern-bred daylily grows in the North. Look at the photos on Tinkers Daylily Database http://db.tinkersgardens.com/ and Kinnebrew's site and the edge will be three times as wide for photos taken in Florida. But it's still pretty pretty.

Lavender Suspenders (Don Herr 02) 48M8.5 is Pennsylvania born and bred dormant Tet. Big and tall, I'm crossing it with stripes and stipples.

This is Pat Cochenour's Screamcicle in DVDS VP Jacque DeJesse's garden. 2003 35EMRe8 Dormant Tet. From Primal Scream by Outrageous, an inspered cross of a 7.5" screaming orange to a 4.5" screaming orange with an eye, and getting an even bigger screaming orange with an eye.

I saw this in three Delaware Valley Daylily Society members' gardens in 2008 and 2009, and every time it stopped me in my tracks. I have one on order for 2010. Raven Woodsong (Ned Roberts 04) 40M7 Sev Dip. Doesn't have rebloom or great bud count (registered 4/14) but I've gotta have it!

Memories of Oz First Full Open (ffo) July 6. K. Herrington 01 Dormant Diploid. 40MRe9 Spider, not UF. Gets prettier after the first day; I like the veins and since it's a Diploid, I crossed it with stripes (all 3 of my striped daylilies are Dips) as well as stipples. I'll cross this one's kids with Katisue Herrington's 2010 stippled UF intro Alabama Sweet Tee I'm ordering this week.