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Flowers – 7-3

Today was the real start of the daylily season for us.  We had our first seedlings open yesterday but today we had a seedling that was nice enough to mark as a keeper.  When we mark them, we give it a number, photograph the seedling, and put a flexible plastic around the scape with the number on it and the cross.  This years seedling crop will start with the number 100 so this first seedling is 100-1.  The pod parent is a seedling that first bloomeed in 2007 – that has a number of 715-1 ((Monterrey Jack x Cherokee Pass) x (Unending Melody x Sabine Baur)).  This is a nice dormant seedling but was not fancy enough to be a registration.  However, we expect several introductions out of it based on seedlings from last year and the large number of seedlings we will see this year.  Seedling 100-1 is (715-1 x New Paradigm).  We like the round form and fat sepals.

We also had an older named daylily bloom called Zoe Josephine.  It also is out of Monterrey Jack with Dan Mahony being the pod parent.  It has an especially nice edge on it. 

100-1

 

Zoe Josephine