I should tell you all about the name 'Jungle Shadows' as certainly semps are NOT from the jungle! About the time that S.'Jungle Shadows' appeared in my seedling bed, there was a border bearded iris in these same shades of dark purple and grey, It was unlike anything else and a very popular plant and was the same shades as this semp seedling and so the semp was named after thwe border bearded iris. I think it was a good name as it captured some of the mystery of the look of the semp.
'Jungle Shadows' was rather unique when it was born and I still find it a very pleasing semp. Visitors to my garden have really enjoyed it. It is also proving to be a very interesting parent as well. I raised a large crop from both hand crosses and bee set seed when I was in MA and 'Jungle Fires' came out of the bee seed which has the 'Jungle Shadows' shape but a red color and 'Edge of Night' a light green with very black tips came out of the hand crosses. There were about 50 seedlings from 'Jungle Shadows' bee seed that Erwin Geiger kindly sent me in '10 and there were a number of beautiful seedlings from that group as well. The plant in my yard is about to start blooming and I hope to make many hand crosses with it this year. It's fun to go back and recapture some of my old breeding lines and extend them in new directions. There certainly are more kinds of very dark semps to use in crosses these days. What fun!
Kevin
