The next exciting thing to happen is the first seed pod! After trying for over twelve years to get seed pods on that clump of yellows above----and getting nary a take----I found eleven seed pods on the blasted plants! I kept trying more modern, later season cultivars that I could get in pots early enough to pollinate my early seedlings. I avoided Saxton's old Spring Purple because I thought it would burn in the sun and I was trying for a slightly more modern form (like 1980s??). Found a seedling of SP and dabbed that pollen on my yellow and red seedlings. Bingo. Of course the pods may do what wild ditch lily does, form seed pods that wither and drop and never contain seeds and if they are fertile I could be over eighty when the cussed things bloom, but what the heck-I got seed pods! Brought the SP flower inside this morning as little bees were stripping the pollen and it fluffed out nicely and I dabbed some more pollen.
