As we told the story of buying 2 plants in Can-Am in 2008 with the first being Violet Victory, the second plant was the dormant introduction from Pleasant Valley Gardens – Lady Stephanie Victoria Redding. Tom Polston told us this is a good hybridizing plant. We brought it in the basement the following winter but it did not bloom early enough to use so we were slow to get to use it. In 2010, we had a large enough plant in the garden to hybridize with and saw our first seedlings in 2012.Â
Lady Stephanie Victoria Redding pictured above. Not a spectacular flower but it makes fancier seedlings as shown below:
Seedling 265-5Â – Lady Stephanie x (((Tet. Lavender Blue Baby x Destined to See) x Tears for Gus) x Heman)
Seedling 265-11 – Lady Stephanie x Heartbeat of Heaven seedling – Great color and teeth
Seedling 265-12 – Lady Stephanie x Seedling 4-2Â – Seedling 4-2 has been our super edge breeder and this seedling will have its own blog post later.
Seedling 265-13 – Lady Stephanie x (((Tet. Lavender Blue Baby x Destined to See) x Tears for Gus) x Heman)
Seedling 281-3 – Song of the Redeemed x Lady Stephanie – Nice color and wider petals than LSVR.
Lady Stephanie Victoria Redding still has a high retail price and is in demand for hybridizing. We have a small plant left over that we will continue to hybridize with in 2013.Â