Pinewood Gardens always looks for new introductions from other hybridizers that bring new genetics into the world of daylily hybridizing. Dan Trimmer is one of our favorite hybridizers for the tet conversions he does and includes in his breeding program. In 2005, we ordered Bill Vojir and Jamaican Love from Dan. Bill Vojir has Tet. Pink Elation as a parent and Jamaican Love has Tet. Devils Footprint as a parent. Bill Vojir gave us One Foundation which is proving to be an excellent garden flower and superior breeder. Jamaican Love gave us two introductions in 2012 – Imprint Your Image and Swallowtail Butterfly. We also purchased Parrot Jungle from Dan in 2005 but were unable to get many seeds from that plant and none of the seedlings were worthy of introduction. Overall, a good percentage of good breeding plants from Dan that year.Â
Jamaican Love is an evergreen but we were able to get two dormant introductions from it. Imprint Your Image is our most popular tetraploid this year inspite of the low bud count. The other parent is our own Heavens Proclaim. While both parents are evergreen, we were fortunate to get a dormant from this cross and are very happy about it. We have been slow to hybridize with it but some some seedlings and will continue to use this plant for its pattern and dormant genetics
Swallowtail Butterfly is another dormant from Jamaican Love with a dormant seedling (Monterrey Jack x Clarification) as the pollen parent. This plant is a wonderful garden plant with scapes that are well branched and budded. We also were more successful in hybridizing with this flower and have several potential introductions from it. Even more important to our program is a good portion of the seedlings from Swallowtail Butterfly are dormant which will help our patterned eye program. Some of the seedlings that are dormant that we look forward to breeding with this summer are shown below:
Seedling 166-3 (Swallowtail Butterfly x Heaven’s Proclaim seedling)
Seedling 166-4 – Swallowtail Butterfly x Entwined in the Vine