Lol, Natalie! You never know, though... I have an orange seedling which isn't too muddy.
I'm trying to play catch-up on seedling notes and I thought I'd throw this out there. Don't ask me what this seedling is from, because I haven't a clue.
It is one of a batch of volunteer seedlings found in 2014 (therefore presumably from crosses made in 2013). Unfortunately, I potted them all up in 4" pots which I left in the dirt in the side yard, and some critter (squirrels, raccoons) decided to knock the pots over and pull out the tags. So even though I have notes on the volunteers ("# A was found near plant Z..."), I don't know what the original number of the volunteer seedling was, so I am now calling it "SV-14-X" (Spring Volunteer 2014 "X" (the unknown)).
Anyway, the point of all of this is that this is a moderately heavily diamond dusted seedling, the most diamond dusted of this crop of volunteers. Apart from that, the seedling (sadly) is nothing to be excited about... older form, shorter scape, miserable budcount. It does sparkle, though... (the images were taken at 11:51 am). I wish I could get that sparkle and edging on something larger (the bloom is maybe about 4") and with better form and budcount and branching...
The unimpressive bloom
Closeup on the diamond dusting and ? gilt edge
