Seed to start this year

No blooms on seedlings last year - what a horrendous year all around for the garden, so no big surprise. In spite of that, I've narrowed down the areas that I want to work with and have a much more focused selection of seeds to start this year. I'll post photo entries soon.

The main focus areas are:

1) Splashes and Stripes and Patterns on open flowers. Preferably the Spatulate form.
2) Pale watermarks with white edges on UF forms.
3) Tall black stemmed, pale pastel flowers. Spidery or trumpet shaped.

Flutterbye x Military School

FLUTTERBYE (Childs F) 1981 DOR DIP Lavender self with a pale lavender eyezone. Creamy chalky yellow throat fading to lettuce green heart. Petals are deep lavender with a wide, lighter lavender edge - can almost appear near-white - and slight ruffling. Recurved sepals are pale lavender also with a lighter edge. Sometime the sepals actually recurve into themselves and appear paler in color than the petals. A good bloomer with well branched scapes. Excellent plant habits. Early to midseason, 6” blooms, 26” scapes.

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MILITARY SCHOOL (Santa Lucia) 2006) DIP DOR (Spanish Fandango x Seedling) Burgundy purple with a chevron patterned eyezone. Yellow throat fades into a green heart. Transmits chevron pattern well. A major breakthrough for spidery patterned daylilies. Midseason. 6” bloom, 20 buds. 30 inch scape, 2 branches.

Military School x Chin Whiskers

MILITARY SCHOOL (Santa Lucia) 2006) DIP DOR (Spanish Fandango x Seedling) Burgundy purple with a chevron patterned eyezone. Yellow throat fades into a green heart. Transmits the layered chevron pattern well. A major breakthrough for spidery patterned daylilies. Midseason. 6” bloom, 20 blooms. 30 inch scape, 2 branches.

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CHIN WHISKERS (McRae) 1992 DOR DIP Dusty rose UFo with large undefined and brushstroky chartreuse green throat and thick lighter colored creamy midrib. Gently recurved form with big open 1/8” ruffles. Excellent bud count and northern rebloom with extended bloom. Has produced some wonderful seedlings. Early midseason. 5” bloom, 30” scape.

Seedling (#20ellis) x Military School

Sandy Ellis seedling #20 (Indian Giver x Pink Super Spider) Absolutely fabulous performer in my zone 5/6 garden. Lots of buds. Blooms over a long period, saturated color blooms in a dark red overshot with purple with darker rays of color coming out from a big green throat. Velvety substance. Fast to increase. Mid to late season, 5 inch bloom. I think the watermarked eye, which isn't very visible in this picture, will pick up the pattern of Military School, at least thats what I'm hoping.

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MILITARY SCHOOL (Santa Lucia) 2006) DIP DOR (Spanish Fandango x Seedling) Burgundy purple with a chevron patterned eyezone. Yellow throat fades into a green heart. Transmits the layered chevron pattern well. A major breakthrough for spidery patterned daylilies. Midseason. 6” bloom, 20 blooms. 30 inch scape, 2 branches.

Seedling (#3) x Military School

SEEDLING #3 from 2006. (Linda Michael's Dallas Star seedling x Trahlyta) Held onto this one for the fabulous color and the wire edge of near white. Fantastic red color, not sure how to describe it, maybe carmine red? Watermarked eye with a pencil edge of darker purply-red. Star-shaped yellow eye fading into a good green heart. A little on the short side but the color is fabulous.

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MILITARY SCHOOL (Santa Lucia) 2006) DIP DOR (Spanish Fandango x Seedling) Burgundy purple with a chevron patterned eyezone. Yellow throat fades into a green heart. Transmits chevron pattern well. A major breakthrough for spidery patterned daylilies. Midseason. 6” bloom, 20 blooms. 30 inch scape, 2 branches.

Military School x Chokecherry Mountain

MILITARY SCHOOL (Santa Lucia) 2006) DIP DOR (Spanish Fandango x Seedling) Burgundy purple with a chevron patterned eyezone. Yellow throat fades into a green heart. Transmits the layered chevron pattern well. A major breakthrough for spidery patterned daylilies. Midseason. 6” bloom, 20 blooms. 30 inch scape, 2 branches.

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CHOKECHERRY MOUNTAIN (Roberts) 2002 SEV DIP UFo, Dark wine red with dark purple eye zone. Yellow fading into a green throat. Very dramatic in person as this large bloom twists and turns. Extended bloom. Midseason. 8” bloom, 34” scape.

Seedling (#14) x Military School

2006 SEEDLING #14 (UNK) This one has been a wonderful performer for me. I'll see it's first kids bloom next year. Very large, very pale pinky peach with a huge green throat. Exhibited pinching, twirling. Lots of buds, average height. Looks like maybe a Golliwog kid? Early midseason, 7” bloom.

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MILITARY SCHOOL (Santa Lucia) 2006) DIP DOR (Spanish Fandango x Seedling) Burgundy purple with a chevron patterned eyezone. Yellow throat fades into a green heart. Transmits the layered chevron pattern well. A major breakthrough for spidery patterned daylilies. Midseason. 6” bloom, 20 blooms. 30 inch scape, 2 branches.

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Yazoo Wild Violet x Heart Effect

YAZOO WILD VIOLET (Gates-Smith) 1985 SEV DIP Smooth, medium bluish-lavender with a wide white ruffled edge on petals and sepals. Big greenish yellow throat. Reblooms. Extended bloomer and a long bloom season. Midseason 5.5 blooms. 20” scapes Produces seedlings in a range of pink, rose, red and purple. Most are narrow and many are large.

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HEART EFFECT (Elizabeth Shooter) 2003 SEV DIP (Stargate Portal x Seedling) Such a delicate color and sweet pattern. A light lavender with a creped watermark of chalky blue in the shape of a heart. Chartreuse throat extending toward the watermark, dark lavender veins and a hairline edge of silver. Fragrant. Reblooms. Late. 6" bloom, 19 buds. 32" scape, four-way branching.

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Tuxedo Whiskers x Star Child

TUXEDO WHISKERS (E. Shooter) 2002 DOR DIP (Seedling x Magical Swirls) Royal red-purple with black veining. Triangular grass green throat fading outward into chartreuse with a dart magenta appearing over white. A silver rim edges both petals and sepals. Tiny gathered ruffles on both petals; and sepals. Velvety texture and sheen. Excellent substance. Fragrant. Reblooms. Three way branching. 18-22 buds. 4 1/2” blooms, 28” scapes.

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STAR CHILD (G Stamile) SEV DIP {[(Little Sensation x Little Print) x Wee Wizard] X (All American Baby x Little Fat Cat)} Grace Stamile writes: This little “white face” is a delightful rosy mauve with a large greyed white watermark. Fertile both ways. Very pretty and striking. Midseason, reblooms. 3.5” bloom, 22 buds. 26” scape, 4 way branching.

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