Here's a few things blooming today

First let me show Juli how different the muddy seedling is looking now

Before


NOW



Purple Peace x Casper's Revenge


Buddy's Black Jack x Casper's Revenge (I'm hoping teeth will eventually show up)


Bama Sunshine x Southern Dazzle


Emerald Dreams x Unfolding Dreams (looking very similar to parent)



Here's a really ugly one. I had 2 different seedlings bloom out of this so far and both have looked like this

Tink, what is that last cross? I'm fascinated by the yellow coloration over the purplish pink. Also, is it pleated?

Michele - I like the Buddy's Black Jack seedling even without teeth. And I love the colors on the Bama Sunshine seedling.

Debra in Nashville

What an interesting flower that last one is. I'd be tempted to let it bloom more to see what happens but I guess that's the biologist more than the gardener talking.

The others are very nice - vivid coloration you're getting!

Looking better Michele, like all three eyes and edges.
The first two are sibs
BLACK SHEEP X SEEDLING 140 5"

MANGO SUNDAE X (LILLIAN'S JINGER BRED X BEST EDGE) 6"

MANGO SUNDAY X POKAN ORANGE 6"

BLACK SHEEP X CAN'T TOUCH THAT 5.50"

(EXTIOC TREASURE X THOMAS TEW) X SEEDLING 141 5.50"

OldGardener

That cross is Fern Stone x Dr Stump. I don't think it's pleated, What you are seeing is just the petals kind of folding in a bit and it's probably because it isn't opened all the way.

Here's one of James Hall's that is doing the pleated, cristate thing. I don't know the cross because I didn't dig his tag out to look. I haven't paid much attention to it since it's not mine, but I believe every bloom has done this type thing.

Looking good Fred.

Fred - Another nice bunch. The second is my favorite - soft, sweet color with a great edge!

Continually amazes me how seeds from the same parents can look so different. Don't know WHY it surprises me given the fact that I am one of four children from the same parents and t'aint not a one of us anything alike, but it does.

Thank you for the info, Tink. Are you going to hold it over a year to see if it settles out?

Wow Fred, I keep trying to pick a favorite and just can't. They are ALL beautiful!!

Dot

Michele, thanks for posting the photos of that seedling before and after - that is amazing. I really had no idea!

Your welcome Juli. That bloom is still on the first scape, I'll post a rebloom photo once it reblooms.

OldGardener, I will see what it does on rebloom. If it still looks awful and nothing going for it then it will be composted. I don't have enough room to keep too many things a second year if they didn't do well on rebloom first year.

daylily said:Michele, thanks for posting the photos of that seedling before and after - that is amazing. I really had no idea!

Juli here's another one that has changed, it's still the first scape.

Wild Dreams x Lillian's Vapor Trails

Oh, wow, how peculiar.

Very interesting indeed.

love the movement in the third bloom!

tink3472 said:
OldGardener, I will see what it does on rebloom. If it still looks awful and nothing going for it then it will be composted. I don't have enough room to keep too many things a second year if they didn't do well on rebloom first year.

I sure hope it gets it together quickly

Green Arrow X Ida Mae Norris
Not what I expected with the dark colors. First bloom of this cross, of about 10 seedlings.