Parents and child were all blooming today, so I took a page from Becky and did this with them. (Dizzy Damselfly X Art Gallery Etching) l to r, seedling below them.
For me it all boils down to a matter of form. 'Art Gallery Etching' is fetching whereas 'Dizzy Damselfly' and the seedling make me feel a bit woozy
. They CAN be flat, but they aren't very much inclined to do it often. Appealing color and pattern, so why can't they be flat?
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Otherwise I had two more seedlings bloom this week. The first one is another from a 'Dizzy Damselfly X French Twist' cross. It pretty much looks like the other one. Same color, same size, less suggestion of an eye. It didn't hint at canoeing like the first one, but it's blooming in warmer temps and the first one stopped doing that when it warmed up. The form is fine, but I'm not much taken with that shade of red. The most interesting thing to me is that it's blooming out of a 6" clay pot! I didn't expect those trapped like that to even attempt a bloom and I'm really surprised at the size of the bloom.
The other seedling, a cross of (Selma Longlegs X Lilting Belle) was growing in a nursery pot that might hold 2 quarts of soil at most and it hasn't been in those spacious growing conditions very long. either. I like the bloom a lot better. Could be I'm easy to please with UFs if they manage the form. I also liked the color. It's really irrelevant, but the petals have an extremely light pattern on them. If you hold your head just right and use your imagination you might detect it. In the sun, it faded to creamy edges by the end of the day. Some blooms fade well and some don't. This one did well.
It doesn't seem very likely that other than getting a glimpse of how the blooms appear, there's much information about the plant itself. That's probably enough to make a cut on a seedling. I may have four more seedlings that have scapes. Thereabout, anyway.
