Thursdays flowers

8 years ago

Geometric Wizard is blooming today. It is one of my favorite daylilies. It is southern bred and I feared it would be tender, but so far it has gone through both mild and cold winters with flying colors.

Kiss of Paradise is doing well for us. It too also has been through both mild and cold winters.

Incendiary is not photo-worthy, but I wanted to ask those of you who grow it a question. Does it ever show for you the applique that Maryott described?

The first patterned seedlings we have seen here are beginning to flower. This is Curious Cutie X Pebble in a Pond. It's a small flower, but there again, both of its parents are small.

Curious Cutie X Geometric Wizard is not as fancy as either parent. A bug took a bite out of this one.

We are not sure yet about the parentage of this one. We will have to dig around in the dirt to find a tag. It's either Incendiary X Wickedly Wild and Wonderful or Rock Solid X Zoe Allegra.

Bob likes this seedling but it never opens as flat as we would like. In fact, he cracked a petal trying to make it lie flat. It is Unforgettable Fire X Unknown.

Nancy

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Comments (7)

Brad KY 6b
8 years ago
Very nice!
shive
8 years ago
I always like seeing your Geometric Wizard, and it's interesting to see the baby you got from it. It's good to hear Kiss of Paradise is doing well in your climate too. Mine has put up and instant rebloom scape, and I'm looking forward to having more it's blooms. My favorite of your seedlings is the third one, the one you're not sure of the parentage. I like the color and the dark eye.

Debra
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Nancy 6b
8 years ago
Love Geometric Wizard and kiss of Paradise. I was just thing yesterday when Incendiary bloomed that I have never seen that pattern on mine either. Would be nice if it occasionally tossed one out. I like your seedlings, especially that first one. I have a seedling I have kept around long enough to get a big clump that reminds me so much of that last red seedling. That is my only complaint with mine too, it just does not lay quit flat, always 1 petal that refuses completely.
sherrygirl zone5 N il
8 years ago
I like your Curious Cutie seedlings and Geometric Wizard, I can see why it’s your favorite! I’m for sure no expert on Incendiary but every photo I see looks different from color to pattern, very curious.

Sherry
lilykate7a
8 years ago
Geometric Wizard is one I liked last year when you posted it. And Kiss of Paradise is very pretty. Incendiary is a different lily as Sherry said. Mine is much more darker and purple than yours and I think Celeste usually posts an even darker one, doesn't she? I am trying to remember if Bill posted several pictures of it on his site when he was selling, to show the different types of pattern it can show. It has not for me. But his Strikingly Dramatic has never actually shown that pattern he shows, either, although someone on the forum does post it and it does display that distinct pattern. Get Jiggy (not his, of course) has never given me much of the jiggy pattern but Debra seems to get it on hers. Sometimes I get a lily like this and when it blooms, I think that it looks just like some other lily in my garden with nothing to distinguish it as "special".

Kate
mantis__oh
8 years ago
What kind of bud count do you get on the two Southern-bred ones?
tarheelgirl_7b
8 years ago
Lovely group of blooms! I grow Incendiary and mine looks similar to your photo, maybe just a little darker. Kiss of Paradise and your last seedling are my favorites today.

Lori