Just lovely, every one. I made several crosses with Jerry Nettles this year, hope mine turn out as well.
Thanks for sharing your pictures.

Very nice seedlings. I like the first Jerry Nettles the best.

Dot

Nice crosses. I like the light yellow JN cross - great texture on the petals! I wish I could have gotten him to take a pod, but no such luck for me!

Looks like the Beyond Words X Cathy Jones cross might shape up to have a nice watermark - my favorite!

Congrats on your new babies.

Wow, Edward -- and these are all first year blooms?

Lots of great stuff here, but my favorites have to be:

Beyond Words x Cathy Jones -- great color, love the eye, and nice form (especially if it keeps the ruffling without the gold edge -- those are hard to find).

Prickled Petals x Ed Brown -- again, great color and nice ruffling.

Both the Bill Norris seedling and the Wonders Never Cease seedling are very appealing.

Please be sure to post more seedling pics -- this is fun!

Chris

'Prickled Petals' x 'Ed Brown' and 'Beyond Words' x 'Cathy Jones' are simply gorgeous, Edward - you must be so pleased! I hope you post more seedlings, you sure have some good ones.

Laurel

My first Victorian Lace seedling is blooming today. It is a smallish near white. I will see if I can get a decent picture after work. Thanks to everyone for the words of encouragement.

Edward

Ed, your seedlings are lovely! I especially like the Beyond Words X Cathy Jones cross. I remember pollinatorbob, who used to post a lot, was breeding for interesting eyezones - are you breeding for a particular look or trait? Just curious!

Really nice, Ed!

Question for you on Wild Horses. It sure seems to pass on its eye well. I've been using it this year too. Have you noticed that it is more pollen fertile than pod? I have a several pods set from its pollen but used darn near every flower on 9 scapes and only have 1 pod set on it so far. It will be bloomed out in a few days.

I am trying for round and ruffled in any colour that is not muddy. I am also trying for a bloom with a fair bit of substance to it with a modern look. Finally I am trying for a plant that does well in my climate. Dormant would be a plus.

Sorry I can't help about Wild Horses. All of these seedlings are from bought or gifted seeds. This is the first year that I am doing crosses for my garden and it is too early to see if any pods have set. I have used JT Davis pollen on Fairest of Them and I hope to get lots of seeds. That is what I consider a good cross...for what it is worth.

What a beautiful lineup! The Bill Norris cross and the first Jerry Nettles cross are my favorite of the group, but I would happily grow any of them!

You should be a very proud parent!

Julie

Very nice! Good job!

Very lovely!
My favorites are all three Jerry Nettles x unkn,
and my most favorite is Prickled x Ed Brown, with its thin white (silver) edging.

Great job!

Julie

I like all three of the Jerry Nettles crosses, and Prickled Petals X Ed Brown is my favorite of all.

Debra

Seedlings this year look like very nice ones indeed.

wow, I like all of them.You have to be pleased at all of these.They are very nice and sooo pretty.

Jean

Love 'em. Especially the Victorian Principles X Wonders Never Cease.

Keep posting them

Tom

Here are two more starting with another from the Bill Norris X Forestlake Ragamuffin cross.

Victorian Lace X Within the Veil

Good looking seedlings! I like PP x EB and VL X WTV the best so far. BW X CJ is beautiful too. And the Jerry Nettles...oh heck,I really like all of them.

Gosh Edward, you've grown some beautiful seedlings. #8 from your 1st bunch is my favorite of all, but I also love #2 in the 1st bunch and #2 in the last post.
Thanks for sharing them with us.
Jan

wow, Edward. You have shared so much knowledge here on seedlings I would never have guessed it is your first year making your own crosses!

Well we are right at the same place then, except it will be next year at least before my seedlings from 1st purchased seeds bloom.

I've had a lot of pods start and then fail later. Just took 7 tags in this evening from failed pods- that after browsing the garden this morning & clearing out tags then as well. I still have a lot developing too though.

I've noticed that a lot of plants I bought to cross won't accept each other's pollen but both will cross with a 3rd plant. I wonder how common it is to have to use a bridge plant (and thus extra generations) to get the crosses you want? I'll have to post that question to the Robin.

Those last two you posted are stunners. Lovely form and nice color on both. My fav so far though is your Beyond Words cross.

Here are a couple more. One is a new one from the Fooled Mex X Wild Horses cross and the other is a repeat on the Jerry Nettles X Unknown cross. The first one is showing more of Wild Horses than the previous seedlings.

All of them are pretty, but my favorites are Prickled Petals x Ed Brown and Victorian Principles x Wonders Never cease. Do you ever register your hybrids and offer them for sale?

It is fun to see the different siblings. I agree, that last one has more of WH form than the other two. All are very influenced by that FM coloring though.

Edward, they are all very pretty but my favs are BW x CJ and the 2nd JN x EB and I really like the PP x EB!!! Now, isn't this fun??? Ellie

Eventually when I have a good one and plenty of it I will register and sell it. That is at least 5 years off.

I hope I'm around here 5 years from now when some of your seedlings are deemed worthy for sale by you. They really are lovely. Still like the color on the lavender one the best.

Two repeats and a new one.

Jerry Nettles X Unknown

Prickled Petals X Ed Brown

Parade of Peacocks X Lola Branham - I knocked of a sepal turning the bloom towards the camera.

Bill Norris X Forestlake Ragamuffin

Your repeat blooms on those seedlings are great. Love them all but my fav is that PP x EB seedling. Love the form and the coloring.
Keep on posting....I never get tired of seeing others seedlings and cv's too.
Jan

the color seems to have changed on Prickled Petals x Ed Brown from Lavender to mauve pink. Is it the pictures or did it indeed change in person (I like it either way)? BN x FR is pretty too.

The first Prickled Petals X Ed Brown bloom was lavender, although the first picture was not very accurate in colour rendition. The second picture is very accurate as to the colour of today's bloom. We will have to see a few more blooms to see which colour will win out.

Edward: Your crosses with Jerry Nettles are all very nice, colour and form. I bought a few seeds with JN two years ago and most of them turned out to be very good plants.

Edward, I like the first Prickled Petals X Ed Brown and hope it stays lavender. It looks like the edge is white on both pics. Very nice group of seedlings!
Kathy

The smooth color on 'Parade of Peacocks X Lola Branham' is scrumptious and the form so elegant!

I think I have a new favorite from the Jerry Nettles X Unknown cross. This is the last one to bloom this year. There are four more that still have not sent up scapes.