glad your enjoying my seedlings it was a good bloom season here it had it's challenges with the weather but I was Happy to be able come out and find these unfolding. I wish more of them would have bloomed so I could of gone through them this season but at least I got a preview of what could pop up in some of these crosses, it was not fun to dig them all and try to keep the ones that didn't bloom in a clump to be transplanted but I definitely have some fun plants to work with in the future.
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and I'm looking forward to all there catalogs to see what got names. I did get some unique colors and patterns but very few were the total package I'm finding out how hard it is to get a perfect plant hoping next year we get a few more buds and some nice stems on these. it was crossed to Keppel's (Strawberry Shake) looking for pinks, it is a awesome plant and good parent and I have seen beautiful pinks from it ..( Friendly advice ) another one of Kieth's that grows well here I was looking for pink lines on the falls with the yellow band, proably stretching things a bit there but 
maybe and one of my own seedlings from (Just Witchery X My Beloved) it was a White had a excellent flower and plant.
. With a lot of these crossed in 2013 I was looking for something that was a excellent parent for form and growth that would let me pass lots of different colors and patterns onto it and keep all those good qualities in tact. A good example of what I wanted to find would be Kieth's ( Silk Road ) the 06-77 plants that he has introduced are a wonderful assortment of colors and everyone of them is perfect (Branching, Buds, Growth) it is stunning to see them all in clumps in his field. I spent hours over them wishing they were in my garden so I could put pollen on them so glad my favorites of those got names and I can pollen daub with them in May 
) and it grows well here so I thought let's see what happens. 
which was surprising because I thought in order to get a plicata you must cross directly onto a plicata so the next day I came out to see what else had opened and there was another plicata there I couldn't understand where they were coming from so I came inside and looked it up in our database here on ATP the pedigree of (First Avenue) is Keppel 00-257K, Bollywood sibling, X Keppel 02-204A: (99-117B: (Crystal Gazer sibling x Poem of Ecstasy) x Dance Recital) basically seedlings crossed together there is no plicata in there directly or( Raging Tide) but when I clicked on (Poem Of Ecstasy) it led me to a plant introduced in 1982 called (Merry Madigal) and it comes from a seedling crossed with (Stepping Out) 
so I found my Plicata Lines or at least I think I did. I ended up with 3 plicata's blooming out of the bunch the one with yellow standards was kept to work with and the other 2 discarded because the form was so bad so what will be interesting is if I cross ( First Avenue) directly onto Plicata's or them onto it will I continue to get Plicata's or was this just me getting lucky and hitting the right combination of gene's. Another project for the spring 
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Barry's stuff is awesome and I'm thankful he thinks outside the box and creates some beautiful color combinations for us to enjoy, his plants hold a ton of potential I enjoy his catalogs and spend a good portion of the winter months in my free time pouring over them looking at the pedigrees to figure out what made what and trying to come up with a plan of which plants of his and others I want to work on in the spring. I am looking for information on what plant set pods and which plants were pollen fertile and then making a list of plants I want to cross together doing a little homework that way you can save a lot of time in the garden when there blooming As far as Irrigation you are in Luck I did take pictures of Mid Americas system it was my favorite hoping to copy something close to it for my self in the spring. It is a drip line system ran from a well with a high pressure pump pushing it to all the named plants in the commercial fields and for seedlings which need more water he had a pipe system set up with 40ft wide coverage. If you are ever in my area during Bloom time in May you are welcome to stop by and walk the rows with me the AIS Convention is in Des Moines in 2017 
and I ran into these from Kieth's garden this spring and wanted to show why I am so excited about Plicata's and all the fun patterns that is popping up for him, I think this is 1 cross by the way I was there a week or so before the convention and his garden was at Peak and it was amazing I would have been thrilled to find any of them in my seedling patch. The question is How do you pick this has got to be one of the best crosses I have ever seen 
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