SEEDLING PAGE 10
This page contains images of a variety of newer seedlings which have caught our eyes here at Ashwood Garden. Most of these are likely to be introduced in the not too distant future.
Seedling T04-44 is a direct child out of RED HAT DIVA. It may well be a 2008 introduction. The red is very clear. In fact a visiting hybridizer here last season declared it the best red he had seen. The plant habit is excellent making it a candidate for introduction.
That seedling T06-38 is a future is a no-brainer. The cross is DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK and CORAL MAJORITY. On both sides of the pedigree is SOUTH SEAS. The color of T06-38 does CORAL MAJORITY proud and in fact may take the brightness a step better. Branching, bud count and rebloom round out the package. Doubling is consistent. The line for this one is already forming.
2008 note: update This seedling has proved to be a frustration, not from the standpoint of performance but from the doubling. The performance is right up there with the best of our introductions. It simply does not double to speak of until very late in the first cycle of bloom. It will then be a very high percentage double in the rebloom cycle. The color is absolutely great, perhaps a shade better to my eyes that the parent CORAL MAJORITY.
My problem is that I am not a breeder for doubles. I grow so few. I do not know if this daylily world needs a plant with these characteristics. As a single it is not sufficiently differentiated from CORAL MAJORITY to meet my criteria of distinction. When it doubles it meets that criteria and then some. I would appreciate feedback from some who are specializing in tet doubles. Is this a cultivar that needs to be made available?
Here is an image from summer '08 rebloom. The color is finally reasonably accurate due the purchase of a Nikon D60 which seems to give us better results than before.
T05-15
T05-16
These images represent a new direction here at Ashwood Garden, sculpting. There are both from a cross of SUPREME EMPIRE and AMERICA'S MOST WANTED. Our dream with sculpting is to see the colors on the ribs of the sculpting contrast with that of the trough area between. T05-15 shows that pattern distinctly with the green of the throat coming out well onto the ribs. That will be probably be fairly easy to achieve. Seeing other colors than green in that position is probably well into the future. What a look that would be, right?
Although it is not a main focus of our work here sculpting is coming along nicely. The first image is from a cross of the two seedlings above, T05-15 and T05-16. The presence of this seedling in the seedling field is something to be seen. It even had an excellent rebloom scape some 15 months after planting and in an extended drought. The second is a beauty direct out of WIZARD IN THE SHADOWS breeding. to get such a sophisticated blossom from that line to breed with the unrelated one on the left is more than I could wish for.
Believe it or not this seedling, T08-27, is a child of T05-15 above. It is the result of a cross to tet SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. The mind simply boggles when the one contemplates the possibilities of a LARGE white throat like this one when incorporated into other colors. Just take a couple of your favorite cultivars and slap a nearly pure white throat onto them and step back for a look! A whole new look in daylilies appears. There are purples behind the scenes in SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. my experience tells me that it will not be that hard to bring out some good purple coloration in crosses from this line. Just imagine a purple with this kind of a giant WHITE throat. Pure magic.
This image is of a very large, full sib of the MEMORIAL TO STEVE. At more than 7" it drew the attention of many who saw. It has a similar floriferous habit but with less increase. Like MTS, it is the plant habit that makes it special. Well, the bloom is awfully pretty too, I confess.
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T03-17
One of the stars of the '04 season here, T03-17 was lined out into what turned out to be our "clay soup" bed. It is another which fell victim to the weather and the deer. The plant showed all the qualities in '04 we hope for in a future introduction. Assuming that it continues to show the plant qualities we observed in '04, T03-17 is likely to be an introduction in a couple of years. It is the best gold edged red we have seen.