These are a few of the many iris in Kevin's collection. They are really fabulous. The sun was shining and these beauties just shouted at you from across the yard.
sedums

The semps!!! oh yes the semps!!!! Some of these were just monsters. What a fun day!

Oh Julia, so glad you got that Dark Velvet Iris, I loved that one too, my picture of it came out blurry.

Kevin, thanks for the clarification about the tweezers. I'll definately look for the Dumont # 5's then. Maybe the reverse ones are for bigger flowered species, This is where an experienced opinion is priceless. Thank You.

I have one last mystery. I took a picture of a name tag that says "Perrydale", now I'm not sure which plant goes with the name. It might be this little yellow Iris? Or was it the Daffodil? There is also a name tag "Reverse Distinction", I think that went with one of the Daffodils. Next time I should have a notebook to number and label the pictures.

It was so great to get to meet you all and spend some time together! Kindred spirits.
Thanks Lynn for making this happen...can't wait for the next one!
Kevin-thanks so much for becoming an Oregonian! Loved the talk, tour and information in the handout, plus,dinner in the potting shed was perfect.

Those Daffodils are awesome. I can't wait to find out the names!

Yes, those are some beauties. Most of the flush of Daffodil were gone when we visited. I think those might be seedlings with not name yet, just a number. What was left blooming were gorgeous.

Clint, I know, aren't they great?

I just did google image on the name perrydale and this picture came up

http://daffnet.org/?p=57055

It looks just like my third picture.

I tried Reverse Distinction on google images and nothing came up.... So I'm still stumped.

Reverse Distinction is a new one from Mitsch Daffodils. Grant Mitsch sort of invented that pattern and this is the newest of those from that line. I am using this type to make Y-P (yellow perianth, pink cup) and had some nice ones boom this spring. Perrydale is a Y-P but a sort of patterned one. I didn't set pods on these bulbs but I did use their pollen. It looks as though I have in excess of 300 pods (probably 3-4K seeds!!) on the daffodils this year, Too bad it takes 4-5 years to get them to bloom. Just imagine what the daffodil patch will be in '18! Better get a seat now!

By the way, most of those irises are Pacific Coast Natives but the white/ yellow bicolor is a miniature dwarf bearded (MDB). This MDB has better form than most of that type.

Am so glad you all got to visit the garden. We were a little between seasons. If the season had been late the daffodils would be at peak and early the irises would be at peak. I'm gradually learning the seasons here. Much different than I experienced in MA or MS!

Kevin

Well I am very late to the party. My computer is visiting the computer doctor and won't be back for a day or two.
I'm not very good on my DD's laptop.

I am already excited about the summer clinic, to actually watch the in-field work/process on hybridizing.
Those of you that couldn't attend this first one, should plan on attending the next one. It was such a great gathering of plant people.
I have to agree with what Kevin said,

JungleShadows said:Just through with a wonderful dinner with all my old and new Sempervivum friends after the clinic. What a WONDERFUL group and it's amazing how we all immediately connected as people as through our plants. In 20 minutes iI felt as though I had known all of these people for 20 years! Guess this speaks volumes about semp fanatics!
Kevin

I'm afraid I didn't get but a few photos, I was so interested in what was going on and didn't want to miss anything.
Here are a few of the dinner in the "shed" at Robert's Crossing. We should all have a shed this nice.

As we started arriving for dinner.


Group, minus the ones that couldn't stay for the dinner. Sandi's DH arrived after the photo was taken.


Raised bed with mature named varieties of semps and sedum, possible parent plants? Is that correct Kevin? You can see the two raised beds in the background containing many 1 and 2 year old sempervivum seedlings waiting for further evaluation before selecting the ones that will be named and eventually find their way to market.


A close up of some of the seedlings. I am so sorry the photo is not showing the true color of some of these. There are some that are already stunning stand-outs.
This photo doesn't begin to show the true color of this one. In the winter it is so dark colored, it appears to be black.

This was a lovely dark semp with a very nice form. I love the offsets on this one.


This group is all from the same cross/batch of seeds. It was interesting to see the variations in color, color pattern and rosette form. Again, you can't really see the differences in the photo.

A close-up of some of them in this group.


One of the possible up coming new hosta with black petioles.


And just look at the leaf edging on this seedling.


More photos to come. I need to de-stress from learning how to use this laptop.

Friday before the clinic we went to Joy Creek Nursery. The plant hunting was on.
Many nice sudums
The plants
Nice display gardens also.
They had some beautiful J maples. I loved this one but has some control and it stayed at the nursery.

Thank you all for the great pictures!! Looks and sounds like the perfect group of people and fun!

Wow. Nice photos. That Hosta has black stockings on!
That is a awesome Japanese Maple too!

Oh my! That raised semp bed is to DIE for. I'm salivating!

Clint, his hostas were really colorful and striking!
Kate it was even nicer in person!
I hope that we do this again sometime soon!
Everyone was talked about (in good ways) so all of you were there in spirit!

BTW - I just talked to Lynn and she said you were all such wonderful and fun people.

She misses you all --- She is going a bit nuts without her computer to post all the things she wanted to say about the weekend.

She wants you to know she will be back online soon.

Thanks for the update on Lynn, Marilyn.

Thanks Marilyn! I bet she is going crazy!

She is pretty laid back, but she does like to check on things on ATP pretty often.

She will have a lot of catching up to do.

Hi friends!

Spent all day making a 4' X 10' bed for the new Sempervivum seedlings. Rowed about 300 in the end of another bed but this year I have 2K+ seedlings from some insane crosses last year so I needed the extra space. Am excited about the potential of these seedlings as I did lots of combinations like very big rosettes X cobwebs and dark purples of all sizes X cobwebs. Some pots have few seedlings, like Michael's Golden X Jewel Case, although the reciprocal cross, has a good many more. That would be one where I would like to see several hundred! Also crossed a bunch of heufelliis last year, combining the best reds. Most of these germinated well, in fact much better than my previous tries at germinating them. The only cross that is germinating poorly among them is Xanthoheuff X Goldbug. However if I can get a gold one that grows it will be worth the effort.

As those who visited my yard may have figured out, I'm a bit of a perfectionist and I tend not to do things a little! So I have been thinking about ways to improve the clinic.

What i was thinking is that we should have the next clinic next spring when these 2K seedlings will be ready to evaluate. I think we should spend most of the time evaluating and observing rather than having me talk, other than to discuss the merits or bad points of particular plants.

The crossing time occurs at a time when the plants themselves look terrible and the garden in general is starting to look bedraggled. I'd rather you see something pretty! So, I'd thought I'd take a series of photos as I go through the crossing process and put captions to each. That way everyone could see the process.

Next year we can schedule the clinic for the height of daffodil season, which is when most of the Sempervivum are at their best. That way you can see 2K daffodils at peak too. Anyway, let me know if that sounds more palatable!

Thank you for all the nice posts. I thoroughly enjoyed having you all come. If I hadn't had two cataract surgeries this spring I would have made more progress in the yard. Still had beds in progress.

Some very intriguing buds in the iris seedlings. we are getting close to a frost tonight so I'm VERY nervous! Think WARM THOUGHTS!

Kevin

Great idea Kevin on the photos, to show us how the crossing is done.
Daffodil season for next spring sounds perfect. And I look forward to seeing the Michael's Golden x Jewel Case cross. That has to be an exciting one.
Okay, so will the giant black/dark red arach will be exciting also. : )
I will probably dream about it tonight.