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