Qualities for breeding are in the eye of the beholder. What I see as distracting, others may not. My eyes were drawn to the buds shooting up like fireworks yet to explode, and luring my eyes away from the flower.
http://cubits.org/liliesforum/... To me, they are very uninteresting buds, yet, at least in that pic, my focus bobbles between the flower and the bud. If that is really a characteristic of the plant and not just the photograph, given the similarities of that flower to others already on the market, I'd say it needs improvement.
Of course bud count is important, but not knowing the age of the plant, I would not venture judgment. I could not say if bud count is acceptable or not.
