Monday, March 15, 2010
Tet Stippled Daylilies - Red on Yellow
My Tetraploid stippled daylilies are so far limited to two color combinations: red on yellow and maroon on cream lavender. Above is Spacecoast Freaky Tiki (Kinnebrew 06) 20EMRe3.5 with great stipple count plus ruffled edges on the petals. I crossed this last summer heavily with bigger and edged daylilies, and with Primal Scream.
Speckles (Ziarko-Rood 98) 26M4.5 looks orange from afar, but it's really red stiples on cream yellow. I have lots of this if somebody wants to trade for Judith Weston's Fizziwig (98) or Hairbrain (08), or for Cochenour's Doctor Strange Love (07) which I don't have yet.
I just got Joe Agosta's Mark's Bouquet (06) last year, and it didn't bloom for me. But Mary Ann Pruden, a Lancaster-area hybridizer of stipples and stripes and unusual forms (see her website under "Links" at club site http://www.delawarevalleydaylily.org/ ) brought this rebloom to a club event, and I used the pollen that night on everything still open.
Expanding Universe (Petit 98) 26M5.5 is a great name; stick your nose up close and it looks like the Enterprise going to Warp.
Goldmist Red (Kirchhoff 94) has lots of variation among blooms, but it's really pretty in a clump.Labels: Daylily stippled daylilies speckled dotted
