it has been a good season it is awesome to come out every morning and find something new outside in the seedling beds. I hope all of you as they are blooming are doing a little pollen daubing it is fun to go through the process and create seeds, get them to germinate,and then watch them bloom. With the advanced pedigree's of today's recent introductions it's impossible to know what you will get some of the crosses I planned years ago are resulting in way different colors and patterns than expected and I have a few Plicata's that popped up the past couple days from non plicata crosses the flowers are not real impressive but was surprised to come out and find them in the row blooming. I am crossing them back to plicatas to see what else pops up from it. besides there are many with pretty faces here in the seedlings but few with the whole package of buds, branching and good increase that would compare to awesome stuff being introduced from Oregon and California but I do enjoy mixing all of there planrts together the results so far are better than expected.
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