Now that fall has set in, we can look back at the last summer’s bloom season. We had daylilies begin blooming around June 20 – about 2 weeks ahead of normal. The first seedlings to bloom were older seedlings that first bloomed in 2011. The cross for all these seedlings is New Paradigm x Swallowtail Butterfly. New Paradigm is a Floyd Cove introduction with Tet. Terry Lyniger in the background. It is a very early bloomer and is shown below:
Swallowtail Butterfly is also an early bloomer and when combined with New Paradigm, we got many nice seedlings. All these seedlings started to bloom in the garden setting beginning between June 20 and June 24.Â
Seedling 103-3 above
Seedling 103-5
Seedling 103-6
These seedlings are nice sized and will be among the earliest bloomers every year. We will evaluate these for the next several years. This year we set seeds on them from Waldo Gone Wild and Mackenzie’s Magic among others.Â