Beautiful seedlings, Valerie and Sue! Their colors are so wonderful and clear.
You have shown so many amazing blue eyed pattern seedlings, Shirlee! Some, registered in my memory, are those you posted earlier in this year and last year. Do you have a website for your intros or do you sell on LA? What alias do you go by on LA? I will look for your offerings.
After I saw so many nice seedlings out of Bowtie Affair from your postings Shirlee, this led me to splurge on Pharaohs' Arrows from Floyd Cove when it was first introduced. PA's pollen parent is Bowtie Affair. Though I did not make many crosses this year, I did cross PA pollen on a variety of daylilies to experiment this summer. PA pollen proved to be quite fertile. I crossed PA with Venetian Pools, a few dark eyed seedlings, a cream seedling, and a pink toothy seedling. I am really curious whether the pattern will pass onto my cream and pink toothy seedling cross.
Hybridizing for blue eye is not part of my hybridizing program. That is too challenging a goal for me. Plus I don't have enough land or labor to plant out many seeds. It is not easy to get a good looking flower from this goal because most eyes turn out purple or violet and not blue. I do love blue eye on white or cream petals. I am with you Daniel. I am also not big on pink and purple flowers with blue eyes.
Sue,
with Dave. It takes at least 3 years to see a seedling's potential and promise. For example, many of my seedlings show rebloom in the third year.
