Seedlings worthy of registration 2024
The alphabet is done for the year so it is time for you to show us your daylily seedlings worthy of being registered. I am betting all of us can’t wait to see what you have created! There will be two more seedling posts, one for seedlings with promise and one for new seedlings. Let’s see what you have!
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last yearI'll start with our three seedlings that have been registered for this year.
Professor Ninglecut is a tet with some purple and yellow teeth. Some teeth have both colors, but there can also be just purple teeth. The name comes from a play two of our kids wrote when they were little. Our son Eric took the role of Professor Ninglecut and our daughter Michelle was Madame Cheeseball. The scape is about 37 inches tall with 3 branches and 15 buds. The bloom is about 6 inches across and it's a mid-late dormant.
The funny thing about Madame Cheeseball is our daughter likes flowers, but yellow ones are her least favorite. She was ok with Madame Cheeseball being yellow with orange shadings. The scape is about40 inches tall with 3 branches and 15 buds. The flower is about 7 inches across. It is a midseason, dormant tetraploid.
The last one is our first dip introduction. Peter Pan's Kiss was hybridized way back in 2009, but we quick working with dips at that time. We decided it was cute and deserved a name. It is a 2.25 inch rather trumpet (or thimble) shaped flower. It has a 30 inch scape with 4 branches and about 20 buds. It is midseason and semi-evergreen. It grows like a weed.
That's all for me.Nancy
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I have several in the pipeline for registration. But just when they will registered is a question mark because of the possible move. A move would set back the line-out process. These two are the first that will be registered.
Inimitable X Moonlit Caress - Vigorous and floriferous, this one has been a favorite of mine since the very first bloom. It's an ivory near-white that shows a pink blush when the temperatures shift, It has a 7-inch bloom on 27-inch scapes with 3 to 4 way branching and a range of 12-21 buds. The foliage always looks green and lush even when others around it have streaks or browning. A midseason bloomer, it multiplies quickly and is fertile both ways. It's semi-evergreen with lots of dormancy. I'm looking for someone in the north and someone in the south to trial it.
Last season it showed the pink blush for many days since it was cooler than usual. This is how it might look most of the time grown in the North.
In my usual temps in the 90s, it looks more near white.
Here's a single bloom from when the temps were in the mid 90s.
((Palace Garden Beauty X Karelia) X This Longing #1) - This is one that Kate has always liked, It had been a slow multiplier until now, when it more than doubled from 9 to 20 fans. I don't know if the terrific multiplying is the result of killing grubs in the area, or moving out seedlings on either side of it., or both. It's an evergreen that blooms midseason and usually reblooms. Height has ranged from 24-28 inches. Bud count has ranged from 12-18, and it usually has at least three branches. Fertile both ways. Kate, if you want to trial this one, give me a shout. I need someone in the north to grow it and see if it will survive in the lower zones.
Early on, when temps are cooler, the eye has more blue tones.
More to come later ...Debra
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These next ones have one or two shy of the 16 fans I require to register a daylily.
Razor Sharp X Spacecoast Night Vision - This one has had different looks in different seasons and different temperatures. It has consistently been a semi-evergreen EM bloom and rebloom with 28-inch scapes and a 5.75-inch bloom. Bud counts range from 12-23, It's a good multiplier and fertile both ways. The flowers are dark purple with a lavender purple watermark and white and cream white teeth.
Last season it looked like this at the end of June (shade):
On those rare occasions when temps go from cool to hot, it can have this grayed purple look common of Trahlyta and Jerry Hyatt.
This is the darkest it's ever been in the very rainy 2021 season.
Sun shot from last year. This photo puts more red tones in it than it has in reality.
((Palace Garden Beauty X Karelia) x Unknown (most likely Magnificent Rainbow) - This is one of my weather warrior seedlings. When most everything had short scapes and few buds, this one managed to garner 14-19 buds on 30-inch scapes. It normally has 20-27 buds on 32-inch scapes. A dormant, it's an ML bloomer with at least three-way branching. So far it has never rebloomed, but it does bloom for a long time late into the season. Pale yellow cream petals with lavender patterned eye and darker lavender purple outline and picotee edge.
End of its bloom last year.
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Sherry and Kate - You can trial both of those first ones if you'd like.
Sherry - I was supposed to send you "Leonard" in the fall, but with my husband's hospitalization and both of us getting Covid, I didn't. I can send you a piece of it also this Spring, if you still want it. I think I still have your email address somewhere. Kay is trialing it in the South. Thanks for the nice comment about the SC Francis seedling! That one is really something in a clump. I need it multiply some more to introduce it.
Brad and Nan - I appreciate your feedback on the seedlings!
Kate - I go back and forth about "Leonard." I personally don't like a flower that small on scapes that tall, but many people don't mind that. I have several kids from Leonard, but none of them showed great plant habit in their first year to bloom. Of course it was a dud year. Thanks for all your comments!
Here's another look at the Perseus' Sandals kid from an earlier season:
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Here are a few more than did fantastic in 2021 but have languished in the two drought years:
(Natalie Antoinette X Symphony of Praise) X Pink Aloha -This one had bud counts in the mid- and high-20s with rebloom on every scape three years ago. The past two years, it's only gotten 10-14 buds per scape. A dormant, it multiplies well. I think it has a 6-inch bloom on 25-inch scapes. This is one Maryl always likes, but it does fade a lot when temps are in the high 90s.
At clump strength
Scarlet Angel X Barbara Mandrell - Evergreen with 6-inch blooms on 26-inch scapes. Three years ago it had scapes with 16-18 buds and rebloomed. It's very fertiile both ways and a fast multiplier. The reason I hesistate on registering it is that, like its mother, the blooms don't look good nights are cool (unpleasant color and slow opening). Once nights warm up to the 70s, it looks great - so more of a southern plant than a northern.
Innocent Discovery X Dearest Valentine - 6 inch blooms on 26-inch scapes. An evergreen midseason bloomer, this one has rebloomed every year and multiplies well. Three years ago, it had most scapes with 16 buds. In the past two years bud counts have been 10-12. Fertile both ways.
Amethyst Prism X Blazing Saddles - 8 inch bloom on 32-inch scapes. Three years ago this one had several scapes with bud counts in the 20s and one scape with 34 buds. Multiplies insanely fast. It has NOT been fertile either way. Semi-evergreen approaching evergreen status. It did not bloom last year.
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Sherry - Amethyst Prism X Blazing Saddles sometimes looks more like a UF. When it first blooms and it's cool, the colors are gorgeous. As we get up into the mid 90s, the color takes a hit and shows some underlying tan colors. This photo shows it in early June when temps are still only 89 or 90 in the day and 60s at night.
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Kate - The Dearest Valentine seedling is always a rosy red, while DV is usually more of a pink here, looking red only when temps are very low. The Scarlet Angel seedling does have a nice edge. In reality the edge is not as white as it looks in that photo. It's a combo of off white and gold. Here's another picture of it that better depicts the colors in the edge.
Here's another look at the Dearest Valentine seedling when temps were 95:
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Maryl - Oh no, I understand Shingles is just awful. How are you feeling? If you want to trial the pink for me in your climate, I can send you a couple fans this Spring. It's a dormant. Also, if you'd like, I could send you the one I call "Nadine." I know that was your mother's name. It's a semi-evergreen here and usually gets 12 buds per scape.
"Nadine"
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