Saturday, March 13, 2010
Striped Daylilies: Pink Stripes, Peppermint Ice
Pink Stripes looks like it's got a virus, but unlike the striped tulips, it does not appear to be a virus, and the trait can be passed to children. Mike Derrow initially rejected his ugly stepchild, but he didn't destroy it, and it sat for years before he showed it to another hybridizer. He finally registered it in 2006.
Another shot of Pink Stripes, more true to real color. Hybridizers are busy crossing this to everything under the sun, and it's been converted to Tet by several, so expect to see lots of striped hybrids soon.
Peppermint Ice (Lovell, 2004) was hybridized from a completely different line than Pink Stripes. It fades with sun exposure, but people have crossed it with darker solid-colored cultivars for improved sunfastness.
Lovely Margie (Lovell 05) is Peppermint Ice crossed with Susan Weber, giving it better foliage, buds, branching, etc. I'm looking forward to the third, fourth, and fifth generation striped daylilies.I crossed all these last summer with Unusual Form and Double cultivars to see what might develop.
Labels: daylilies Pink Stripes Peppermint Ice Lovely Margie
