Name: Mona Guntown, Ms (Zone 7b) I love nature & everything outdoors
Wow Lyle, I think we all agree that they all are fantastic, but number 7 is just a head above the rest. Do you have the size of the bloom? It looks like a large one. The colors are great and the shape is just awesome.
We've had cold rain all day here but I must say that we needed the rain so much that I've enjoyed just being inside doing nothing. God's rain is soooo much better for my plants than what comes out of the garden hose. Yeah, it all comes from the same place, but we humans manage to mess it up once it comes in contact with us.
Love all your seedlings Lyle, keep them coming. It's great to see something colorful this time of the year.
Seedling #7 has quilled petals, and if registered would be an unusual form. The bloom size is listed as 7" the seedling was in a one gallon pot when the stats were taken.
Seedling #6 was one that i kept from this group due to the uniqueness...
Seedling #4 is a cross of VIOLET BECOMES YOU X LARRY'S OBSESSION
Sometimes a face is the most important part of a daylily in a show it is responsible for 50% of the overall score. Before registering a daylily make sure you divide it a least once to make sure it will survive.
Name: Mona Guntown, Ms (Zone 7b) I love nature & everything outdoors
I'm a pushover for the white with dark purple(looks black on edge) eye and edge. So, I would pick #4 for my most favorite.
Then I'd go to #3 for it's look of softness and grace.
Finally #5 just has great colors.
In the group before this group, I'm glad that #7 is as big as it looks. I really do like the quilled look that this one portrays so well.
And I'm totally taken with #2 and #8! #2 is my favorite -- love everything about it, and especially the TEETH! And #8 looks like it's on the chartreuse side of yellow. Is that just the way it photographed, or is it a tad bit chartreuse? It's really beautiful and serene, and I love the hint of sculpting there. And #6 isn't bad either! I do believe I see some teeth and sculpting there! Fantastic bunch, Lyle!
Name: Charleen Alford, Florida (Zone 8a) Walk in Peace / I'm Timber's Mom.
My Goodness, I never saw such lovliness!!!!
Those are all beautiful. That one You couldn't even see a center, Fantastic.
You sure have some beauties...
Those are all absolutely gorgeous! I'm drawn to #'s 7 and 8, though -- love the intense colors on #7 and #8 is just beautiful -- love the eye colors and double edge, plus it's a bitone!
Name: stephanie king cut bank, MT z 3a-4b Life is what you make it, so make i
I like # 1 as it has those great Twinkie ribs and I also see some teeth.
#6 has huge fat petals and I love the color and throat and the edge is on the sepal also.
#8 is a beauty with a triple edge, beuatiful eye and color and nice green throat.
#2) DELTA BLUES X GREDA BROOKER - this seedling carries a 6" bloom and has some possibilities for breeding large blue eyes.
#4) RW MUNSON JR X CALMING EFFECT- this one has the sought after Munson eye
#8)ROCK SOLID X GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
Lyle, when you started hybridizing did you find seedlings of this quality right off the bat, or did you have to work at it a few years to get some like these? And with this latest batch, were you just looking for the qualities you mentioned and then discarding/giving away the rest that did not have those particular qualities? I'm beginning to see just how tough this selection process will be if and when I ever actually get to see some flowers on my seedlings (which still haven't germinated yet)... I'm hoping for toothy seedlings, and the selection process should be easy, but I can see where I'll probably get sidetracked by other features in the seedlings. Yikes!
And now that you mentioned #4 and the Munson eye, it's really growing on me -- a lot! Bill Maryott sent me CALMING EFFECT as a bonus plant, and I'm not familiar with the pod parent, but the seedling sure is beautiful!
Betty - When I started hybridizing all of my seedlings were keepers....as you will fell after you bloom out your first group. It takes time to become your own person when it comes to hybridizing there are so many influence "especially on the social sites" it is hard to stay focused but once you figure out you can put out a seedling that is just as good as the majors you will then hunt that elusive "unique daylily" . I have heard of hybridizers wanting a yellow self with a brown edge, or orange with green teeth ...that is too far out there for my program, but may be done someday.
When you look at my seedlings you see what I see in a cross. If you want teeth again the mother of teeth is FORESTLAKE RAGAMUFFIN all the good ones have that daylily in their background. For my warm winter climate I like COSMIC SENSATION and FORTUNES DEAREST this is a personal preference and may be the wrong direction but it is my direction.
The Munson eye gives a large area(if it gives up its eye zone easily) to work with if you could imagine a patterned eye that large. Maybe cross it with - Pick Up Lines or Destined To See.
Name: Mona Guntown, Ms (Zone 7b) I love nature & everything outdoors
May number 7 will make it in the cold. I sure do like it. I'm also loving number 6. When I was a little girl, I always used up all my purple colors in my box of crayons first. I got a box of 64 one year for Christmas and it had many of the deep rich purples. I was soooo happy. I colored all my princess dress with red purple, blue purple and the deep rose purple that every Queens dress should be.
Lyle, you have some very beautiful seedlings. This is fun talking about them and seeing which ones everybody likes. Thanks and blessings, Mona
My picks are #4 and #7.
