Each bloom season gets us excited about the direction of our hybridizing program. Many times our planned crosses do not go as planned but some surprises keep us going in new directions. The flowers below are some that we intend to breed with in the next few years.
Seedling 3-3. This first bloomed last year and we observed it was a great color. This year we were able to observe it in a garden setting and found it has dormant foliage and scapes with 20 buds and a couple laterals. These two features are critical to produce high performance daylilies. The parents are Born to Run x 809-3. Seedling 809-3 will be an introduction in a year or two and is proving to be a great parent. Seedling 3-3 is shown below:
Seedling 102-2 is from New Paradigm but the eye pattern is broken up. We found this unique and will cross this with others in our program to hopefully enhance this unique look.Â
Our diploid program will be enhanced this year with new seedlings to cross into our older seedlings. This flower stood out on a tall scape that we could see 100 feet away due to the large green throat. The flower is 6.5 inches with the green throat 4 inches in diameter. It is the green throat that makes this visible across the yard. We will use this on our future introduction 739-2 (to be named Arno’s Bow Tie) to enhance the size and flat opening.Â
Seedling 908-3 is out of Spring of Living Water (our 2011 indroduction). The blue eye and similar pattern on the sepals is great looking and the clump is showing excellent scapes this year. It is evergreen but has done well here for the last 3 seasons. We will still work with this in hopes of getting dormancy in it but we hope to load it up with pods from Blue Desire, Bit of Blue, and some of our Blue Hippo seedlings.Â
