Me too!! Spring and Colucci part 2

Lynn, your pictures are amazing. I loved them!

Wonderful looking seedlings there. That last little one is sooo cute .

pardalinum said:Wonderful looking seedlings there. That last little one is sooo cute .

And I really like A1-8 too.

Thanks for the pictures Lynn. Nice eye candy to wake up to this morning!

Nice plants! It has encouraged me to transplant all my seedlings into individual cells in plug trays. Some went into the ground as well yesterday. Lynn, try waiting for a bright but not sunny day for the photos. The colors come out better then. A photographer came by to photograph my gardens and she had a hand held screen that filtered the light. It wasn't heavy so she could hold it to lightly shade the plants as she took shots.

I guess I am surprised that they look like semps so early in the seedling process. I think of seedlings as skinny bits of green.

I too like the last one. It is already producing offsets, as are some of the others. The B12-1 is really pretty.

Add my thanks to the ones above.

Mark thank you so much for the information about a hand held screen. I will give that a try. The sun was out in all it glory yesterday, making it impossible for me to get true colors.
A5-4 and A5-6 are way off from true colors. They have to be seen in person to understand the depth of their beauty.

Chris, maybe you can make it out for next springs clinic?

Spring, Colucci and Lynn for Part 2.
There will be literal thousands to look at next spring.

It won't be long before we will be able to buy the newest hybrids of Kevin Vaughn, right here in the good old USA.

We cross posted Marilyn.
It is amazing how quickly they start showing promise, and how quickly they start producing offsets.

Kevin,
When you get these to market don't forget to give us a source to buy!
I read somewhere here on ATP that a white umbrella works well.

Friends,

Yeah it was a glorious day yesterday but not a great one for photography. Being a 6'3" dude I can cast a shadow and did serve that purpose on the iris blooms.

I will try to sort through my images of these seedlings. As Lynn remarked, many had completely changed since the hybridizing clinic whereas others looked more or less the same. Many of the seedlings from 'Killer' had increased in intensity, which is a nice switch from those that fade in the hotter days. I had used it a lot as a parent and was certainly glad I did.

Wish all of you that were at the clinic could have been in the yard yesterday. The spuria and Louisiana irises and penstemon were looking very good yesterday too. The only bad part was that Robert's Crossing wasn't open for lunch! When I was in there last week the owners told me how much they liked our group. Semp people are really the best too!

Arrangements are being made to put these on the market. Stay tuned.

Kevin

Yeahhhhh!!!! A time will come when we can all order the newest Kevin Vaughn hybrids.
I can't wait.

Opps, think I am getting over excited. Take slow, deep breaths Lynn.

One of the raised display beds, and there's Kevin waving at you.


Some of the iris at Kevin's place.




Sure wish I was there when these two opened up.



Look at how beautiful it is using iris and sempervivum in the same planting area.


He has some of the most wonderful penstemon seedlings, in different colors and sizes. Just a small sampling.



More photos to come.

Wow, wow, WOW!! The raised bed is gorgeous! But I thought Kevin was trying to fly.... I'm really looking forward to the new Kevin Vaughn hybrids too.

Those iris are spectacular. Every single one of them pops. Very, very nice.

And the penstemon seedling colors are delicious. They're so delicate.

Chris is was like that in person too! Everywhere you looked things were "popping"!!

Yes, treasures in every nook and cranny.
In the above first photo you can see two of the seedling beds off to the left. Even from a distance you can see all the color in those little babies.

You should see the hardy geraniums he is working on.

I didn't even see the seedling bed over there. I thought Kevin was doing a happy dance looking at all the beauties. Wish I would have been there.

Hardy geraniums? which will survive winter cold? Maybe just PNW cold.....

I know you can overwinter them inside, but how great would it be to leave them outside and have them re-appear the next
spring.

If he needs to test for cold weather, tell him I will be glad to do so here. Although I am sure he have plenty of
volunteers for that sort of thing.

Yeah the HARDY GERANIUMS are true geraniums not Pelargoniums like the garden varieties. My mom grew these in Zone 4 in MA. They are just great plants.

Thanks to the kudos from the others too. And those iris seedlings that opened are amazing Lynn! Didn't realized you caught me in that one photo! Very sneaky!

Kevin