JungleShadows said:The heuffs are fast becoming my favorites too. They make the neatest mounds and never need to be dug and divided. Perfect for the lazy gardener. Best of all they seem to look good year-round and almost regardless of the weather.
Although one thinks of them as rather similar I'm getting a large variety of shapes and sizes in the seedlings from squatty forms to upright and some very tiny (1" maximum) to over 6". Colors from gold, pale green, all sorts of red and purple tips to green, full reds, reds edged with green, purples, purples edged with green, brown, and near black. My favorite named cultivar is 'Bros' but it is a stinker of a parent. Really BLAW seedlings! That is the exception though as the seedlings are generally really nice. Virtually any of them would be great garden plants.
My only complaint is that they are the WORST to cross as you have to pull off the the petals in order to do the crosses whereas the true semps can retain their petals and the anthers are easy to remove. With them I generally do controlled self pollinations so I move pollen from one flower to another one where the the stigmas are receptive.
Now if I can get them to the 12" sizes that I'm getting my true semps I'll be even happier. Give me a year or two...
Kevin
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