Betty - Mine seem to bloom per their usual bloom time listed on AHS or following their genetics (parents). I know that a few others here have gotten winter blooms, too. I just don't know how that happens. I thought maybe you did something to push those plants to bloom. Maybe it was an early bloomer, too, and thought Spring had arrived with the warmer temps.
Cindy -
Yet to bloom seedlings sure make Spring/Summer fun!
Mike - My old Japanese MG photos are somewhere on a backup drive. I have no idea where. Some of the seeds I got from Japan and some I got from Onalee's:
http://www.onalee.com/catalog....
They were fun to grow and hybridize until the rust fungus attack. After that, I could not grow them outside in the yard without them dying promptly from getting infected. The rust travels via wind and my yard now has those MG rust spores. We don't get the killing freeze that you do each year to prevent rust. (Same issues as daylily rust.)