What is blooming in the greenhouse 4/6/11

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There was a little frost last night in the outlying areas of the Scenic City. We were just on the edge here in Middle Valley. However, when I walked into the greenhouse this morning, everything was toasty and blooms open.


The first seedling to catch my eye was Seedling 1010 [Blue Desire X [(Seedling No. 9049 Robert W. Carr X Serenity Bay)]. This is another of the 9 month seedlings.

Pollen Parent
Seedling No. 9049
(Robert W. Carr X Serenity Bay)

Pod Parent
H. 'Blue Desire'
(Gossard, 2007)

Seedling No. 1010 [Blue Desire) X [(Robert W. Carr X Serenity Bay)

The next was Seedling No. 0038 (Wonder Of It All X Roses and Gold). This seedling first bloomed in the field in 2010, was potted and brought into the greenhouse for hybridizing.

Pollen Parent

H. 'Roses and Gold'

(Stamile, 2003)

Pod Parent

H. 'Wonder of It All'

(Carr, 2005)

Seedling No. 0038 (Wonder of It All X Roses and Gold)

Next was Seedling No. 0038 (Lone Wolf X Robert W. Carr). This was another seedling that bloomed in 2010 and brought into the greenhouse for hybridizing.

Pollen Parent

H. 'Robert W. Carr'

(Pickles, 2010)

Pod Parent

H. 'Lone Wolf'

(Grace-Smith, 2004)

Seedling No. 0038 (Lone Wolf X Robert W. Carr)

Some of the named varieties that bloomed this morning.

H. 'Grand Masque' (Stamile, 2004)

H. 'Marilyn Morss Johnson' (Morss, 2007) Named to honor Mort's twin sister who passed away in 2011.

And last, but not least

H. 'Robert W. Carr' (Pickles, 2010). Named in honor of my friend, Dr. Robert W. Carr who passed away in October 2007.

That is it for today, my friends, hope you enjoyed the fruits of my labor.

Life is very, very good.

Lee

What is blooming in the greenhouse 4/4/11

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Today has been a little overcast, but all I need to do is to walk into the greenhouse and I forget how gloomy it is outside. I am going to begin today with two of our 2011 introductions that were blooming today.

 

H. 'Juanita Manley’

27" M SEv Re 5". Four-way branching, 25 buds.
     This cultivar was chosen by our sister-in-law, Juanita Manley, of Cranberry Township, PA to carry her name. The bloom is a very saturated cherry red with an ivory watermark and ruffles. One of the clearest cherry reds that I have seen. The substance is very good and holds up well except in very hard rains. The plant habit is very good. It is pod and pollen fertile in the greenhouse and we have some very nice kids coming. Petals are 2½” and sepals are 1¾”. A very showy flower in the garden. Seedling No. 0726 (Painting The Roses Red X Jean Pickles)

 

H. 'Rockets Bursting In Air’

27" M SEv Re 5½". Four-way branching, 25 buds.
     This has been one of my favorites since first bloom in 2007. I thought long and hard for the perfect name and H. 'Rockets Bursting In Air’ seemed to fit. The bloom is very clean and smooth and the color is a saturated magenta. The white midribs give the impression of ‘Rockets bursting in air’. The watermark of white accentuates the explosion. The edges of the petals are very smooth with a fine band of white. The substance is heavy and holds up well. Pod and pollen fertile in the greenhouse. Seedling No. 07100 (Pure Indulgence X Painting The Roses Red).

Now to the seedlings that were blooming today.

The first is Seedling No. 0037 a cross of (Cosmic Sensation X Larry Allen Miller). This is one of the darkest of the LAM kids. First bloomed in the field in 2010, selected, potted and brought into the greenhouse to use for hybridizing.

Pollen Parent
H. 'Larry Allen Miller'
(Stamile, 2005)

Pod Parent
H. 'Cosmic Sensation'
(Salter, 2002)

 

Seedling No. 0037 (Cosmic Sensation X Larry Allen Miller)

The next is Seedling No. 0039 (Shores of Time X Larry Grace), again bloomed in the field in 2010, potted and brought into the greenhouse to use in hybridizing.

 

Pollen Parent

H. 'Larry Grace'

(Salter, 1994)

 

Pod Parent

H. 'Shores Of Time'

(Stamile, 2002)

 

Seedling No. 0039 (Shores Of Time X Larry Grace)

I hope you enjoyed the show today.

Life is very, very good.

Lee

What is blooming in the greenhouse 4/3/11

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H. 'Awesome Bob' (Pickles, 2001) bloomed for the first time in the greenhouse this morning. This has an interesting story behind it. In the fall 1995, Bob Carr called me and said, "I did not get my full compliment of 30,000 seeds this year and do you have about 1,000 seeds you would like to send me? I will plant them this fall and we will see them bloom next spring." Guess what I said? Among the 1,000 seeds I sent, were either 16 or 17 seeds of a cross of (Ida's Magic X Velvet Beads). The next spring, Bob called me one day and said, "Lee, you will never believe one of your seedlings that bloomed today. It is a very ruffled red and way ahead of it's time." That fall, he split it and sent me a couple fans and he kept a couple fans to increase for me. It was a fast increaser and we had a couple hundred fans for release in 2001. In the early MWS days, Bob always used to show a slide prior to his introductions stating, "Awesome Bob Carr's Daylily Seedlings", thus the origin of the name. I had the number needed for introduction in the greenhouse in the winter of 2000 and spring of 2001. Something happened that year and I lost every plant inside of the greenhouse (named varieties, seedlings, everything). At the same time, the greenhouse cover was split. We never did discover what happened. Luckily, Bob had enough fans for the orders. The last two years above have been corrected from 1990 and 1991 to 2000 and 2001.

Seedling No 9023 [Spring Formal X Seedling No. 0742 (Mandalay Bay Music X Wonders Never Cease)] You can see some light sculpting in this seedling probably from Seedling No. 0742. I am using it in my eyed and edged sculpted breeding program. Remember, the top image is the pollen parent, the bottom the pod parent. This is from the crop of seedlings that bloomed for the first time out in the field in 2009.

Pollen Parent
Seedling No 0742
(Mandalay Bay Music X Wonders Never Cease)

Pod Parent
H. 'Spring Formal'
(Trimmer, 2004)

 

Seedling No. 9023 [Spring Formal) X (Mandalay Bay Music X Wonders Never Cease)]

The second seedling in bloom today was Seedling No. 0028 (Some Sweet Day X Serenity Bay). This seedling first bloomed in the field in 2010 and selected to pot and take into the greenhouse to use in hybridizing.

Pollen Parent
H. 'Serinity Bay'
(Salter, 2008)

Pod Parent
H. 'Some Sweet Day'
(Stamile, 2006)

  Seedling No. 0028 (Some Sweet Day X Serenity Bay)

And the final seedling for today is Seedling No. 0026 (Christmas Greetings X Awesome Bob). Another seedling to bloom in the seedling field in 2010, potted and taken into the greenhouse for hybridizing. A red of impeccable color, form and ruffling. A barely perceptible halo is present.

Pollen Parent
H. 'Awesome Bob'
(Pickles, 2001)

Pod Parent
H. 'Christmas Greetings'
(Salter, 2005)

Seedling No. 0026 (Awesome Bob X Christmas Greetings)

There you have today's edition of the DaylilyPotpourri blog. I hope you enjoyed it.

Life is very, very good.

Lee

What is blooming in the greenhouse 4/1/11

 

Yes, I know this is not bloom in the greenhouse, but there have been several posts on the Robin about Fringetree's that I thought I would show ours. 'Chionanthus retusus' Chinese Fringetree - This was our tree last year in May. You can see that ours is a multi stemmed tree. One thing interesting is that the tree leafs out before it blooms, so you have this sea of white on a bed of green. It is late to drop it's leaves in the fall, and Jean says they are the hardest leaves to deal with that she has come across. However, it is beautiful.

Okay, now to today's bloom. We will show three 9-month seedlings that bloomed today. The first is Seedling No. 1007 (Bluegrass Memories X Kaskell's BEST EDGE Seedling.

Pollen Parent
Kaskell's BEST Edge Seedling
Used heavily by several hybridizers.

Pod Parent
H. 'Bluegrass Memories'
(Preuss, T. 2006)

Seedling No. 1007 (Kaskell's BEST EDGE Seedling X Bluegrass Memories)

The second 9-month seedling to bloom was Seedling No. 1005 (Bluegrass Memories X Heartbeat Of Heaven). See the image of H. 'Bluegrass Memories' above.

Pollen Parent

H. 'Heartbeat Of Heaven'

(Emmerich 2004)

Seedling No. 1005 (Bluegrass Memories X Heartbeat Of Heaven)

The third 9-month seedling to bloom was probably my favorite, a cross of (Camelot Red X Doug's Caress)

Pollen Parent

H. 'Doug's Caress'

(Holley, S 2009)

Pod Parent

Garden Name 

CAMELOT RED

(Salter, J)

Seedling No. 1004 (Camelot Red (Garden Name) X Doug's Caress)

There you have it boys and girls, today's edition of "What is blooming". Hope you enjoyed the images as much as I enjoyed bringing them to you.

Life is very, very good.

Lee

What is blooming in the greenhouse 3/29/2011

Today was another chilly, overcast day. Except in the greenhouse! How glorious to walk inside where the blooms were strutting their stuff and seed pods were beginning to show from previous days of hybridizing. It is surprising how a few daylily blooms can brighten what is a downer of a day!

Two seedlings of note blooming from the year 2000 selected group which first bloomed outside and then were potted to bring into the greenhouse to use for hybridizing this year.

H. 'Max Pickles'
(Pickles 2007)
was the pollen parent

H. 'Royal Presence'
(Stamile '05)
was the pod parent

Seedling No. 0006 (Royal Presence X Max Pickles)

I like this deep burgundy color with  white watermark and the white edge. The flower measures about 5 1/2" and stands about 30" tall.

The second seedling from the 2000 crop to bloom today:

H. 'Max Pickles'
(Pickles 2007)
was the pollen parent

H. 'Wild Cherry Round Up'
(Trimmer, D '03)
the pod parent

Seedling No. 0011 (Wild Cherry Round Up X Max Pickles)

A little smaller flower at about 5", the cherry red color is captivating and the substance is exceptional for a red flower.

Two named varieties blooming today that I thought were exceptional:

 

H. 'Aslan' (Corbett '09)

Jeff registered this one at 5.75" but for me in the greenhouse, it as more like 6 1/2". Nice flower and scape.

H. 'Ledgewood's Great Ambition' (Abajian '08)

I purchased this one in the year of introduction because I was smittin with the big bold eye and edge. When it arrived, it was the tiniest shriveled up thing I have ever received. Finally, three years later, I am getting to see the bloom and use it for hybridizing.

That is it for today.

Life is very, very good.

Lee

  

What is blooming in the greenhouse

I feel very fortunate to have a greenhouse. It not only allows me to do my hybridizing early, but it extends my season probably more than double. I have told you about my starting seeds in 2" X 2" X 3" peat pots last fall and then transplanting them to trade 1 gallon pots. Well, today I had my first 2 blooms on 9 month seedlings with many more to come in the next few days. This is my first experience with 9 month seedlings. One of them was a H. 'Bluegrass Memories' kid which was not noteworthy. The second bloom was significant to my yellow line. The cross was Seedling No. 9008 [(Spectral Elegance X Wonder Of It All) X (Unknown Seedling X Kaskell Best Edge Seedling)] the latter having the garden name of "Tom Allen" from Dan Trimmer.

Trimmer Seedling
(Unknown Seedling X Kaskell's Best Edge Seedling) with the garden name of "Tom Allen".

Seedling No. 9008
(Spectral Elegance X Wonder Of It All)

The resulting 9 month seedling No. 1001. The seedling does not show any of the color from the "Tom Allen" seedling except prior to opening, the sepals did show a little edge color. This seedling was about 30" high and the bloom was at 6". It also has very heavy substance and does exhibit light sculpting. Jean's comment was, "Your yellows just keep getting better and better". I need to take this one back to something with color, maybe Bill Waldrop's H. 'Kinnesaw Mountain Hayride'.

A selected seedling from the 2000 crop also bloomed today. Seedling No. 0004, a cross of (Roses And Gold X Max Pickles). I like this dark red very much. It has a watermark, a very green throat, and a small thin edge of yellow.

H. 'Max Pickles' named for our 12 year old grandson and introduced in 2007.

H. 'Roses And Gold' a Stamile 2003 introduction

 Seedling No. 0004 (Roses And Gold X Max Pickles)

Named cultivars blooming today.

H. 'Ledgewood's Pansy Eye' 

(Abajain 2005)

One of my favorite reds

H. 'Doug's Caress'

(Holley, S. 2009)

From my friend, David Hansen from Papillion, NE

H. 'Mirriam Anne' (2010)

I believe it was named for their daughter.

H. 'Happy Happy'

(Smith, Frank 2009)

And last but not least, a green edged seedling No 149-06 from Jeff Salter.

It was a very good day and I expect them to just get better and better. This year I will be concentrating more on reds, teeth, and eyes and edges.

Life is very, very good.

Lee