I agree, there have been so many gorgeous seedlings posted this year in the various monthly seedling threads. I'm amazed at some of the toothy ones being shown. Way back when rumor had it that you needed heat/hot summers to get teeth I skipped growing them. Our summers tend to be cool with a few warmer days mixed in. I haven't posted many seedlings this year, still need to sort the seedling images, but this one had me gasping for a minute or two. I don't purposely breed for "blue" and this was a surprise.
After staring at it for a few minutes I thought about getting a known dl to compare it with. So ran down to the display garden and grabbed a bloom off Point of Divergence.
The comparison looks pretty good, still showing the blue....then my bubble got burst...the sun moved higher in the sky taking the shade off the blue eyed sdlg. You can see the difference adding sunlight makes to the color of the blooms, gone is the clear cool blue and in come warmer purple-red tones to the eyes on both the sdlg and Point of Divergence as well as changing the base colors.
Maybe the sdlg will grow well in the shade....
