DogsNDaylilies said:Awww, I'm bummed. So the plant that Oakes has actually is Watchyl Dipsy Doodle and they simply put the wrong bloom size in the description. It even looked big in the picture,
Did you get some more info to confirm that's the right plant? On the Oakes page it says 3.5" at the top but 9" lower down in the description. It also describes the flowers as "huge", which 3.5" isn't. The Watchyl series flowers tend to be on the large size. Out of 40 Watchyl cultivars registered, only four are smaller than 4". There are Watchyl cultivars registered as spiders but this particular one is not. Fifteen out of the 40 Watchyls are 9" or more.
One of 'Watchyl Dipsy Doodle's parents is 5.5". The other doesn't have a size registered but it's not a huge one, nor is it a small one ('Howdy') as far as I'm aware so that doesn't help much either way. There are no references that I could find in the AHS forum archives, and it's not mentioned in any of the AHS journals as far as I could tell from the search function so may not be widely grown. Have you queried it with Oakes?
