Scapes have appeared this warm weekend – May 28. This will be the earliest bloom season we have had. August Wedding is one of our earlier bloomers and our garden clump has several scapes already. August Wedding flower and clump today are shown below:
August Wedding (2005 introduction – Magic Amethyst x Forsyth Comanche)
August Wedding clump with scapes on May 28.
August Wedding has been the parent or grandparent of more than 12 of our introductions. We still intend to breed with it again this year. We have new pollen from Ted’s Tribute to Linda and Even Heroes Bleed from Ted Petit and My Dream of Heaven from Larry Grace that we have not used yet. August Wedding is a good opener and often makes dormant kids so we find it is still valuable for breeding. Below are two seedlings from the 2011 crop with Fringy being the pollen parent. Both are dormant and we are looking forward to seeing them bloom again this year. We also should see August Wedding x King Solomon’s Treasure in 2012.Â
Seedling 1003-1 (August Wedding x Fringy)
Seedling 1003-3 (August Wedding x Fringy)
We have seen seedlings from some of our local daylily club members (Shelly Wiggins and Mary Jo Tilton) who have used August Wedding and it has been excellent for them.Â
We have not sold August Wedding for several years to build up stock. All we have is the one clump by the house. We will divide it next spring and have it for sale in 2013. If anyone needs to but it, I believe Melanie Mason has some for sale. It has been excellent for both garden and hybridizing.Â