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Seedling revisited
Category: DAYLILY HYBRIDIZING | Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:58 am Not much new going on in my garden... Next year is going to be so much better! Well hopefully anyways. Its a lovely labor day weekend forcast, Im not really planning on doing much. I extened my main garden bed around its curve another 30 feet X 10 feet deep wide bed. Ive purchased 5-6 crosses for next year so far and have my rose order into pickering already... Next up is value seeds, WHENEVER they get around to updating and maybe a pine tree seeds order. I would love some more daffs in the garden as well. If you wait until just before the snow flys you can get them even cheaper at the local places =). Anyways wanted to revisit this one cross, NONE of the flowers were bad, they were all very will defined with great color and habit. As you can see from the last picture, it fades to a truly gentle lavender/purple/mauve mix. Its truly fantastic and will be saved for the next 2-3 years to see what it does. I cant wait untill next year however. I have soooo many crosses set to bloom next year, with parents out of blue hippo , priceless, sense of wonder, eight miles high, gary colby, blue lake, god save the queen , highway blues, dragonfly charmer I can go on and on, I had over 500 seedlings last year! I think this year it will be around 250, with my schedule, taken care of this many seedlings at one time is alot! But I see all the new culitivators and the old ones, I get sooo exited and ending up bidding on them on the lily auction anyways! Well forget all the rambling! here are some of the pics! 
Have a great Labor Day Weekend everyone! We are having classic american fare, fresh raised corn, hamburgers , hot dogs and watermelon, topped off with ice cream =). Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 263 times
Tons of Pics!
Category: Wintersowing and Wintersowing Blooms | Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:07 pm Been awhile since Ive posted, Calendula , forgive the kid toy in the background =).. 
Morning Glories, these didnt grow very tall, but they were huge, a mixture of a couple different types... 
Candy Lily, 
Salvia, 
Triple Yellow Datura, not the greatest pic... 
Front Yard bed... 
Snapdragons 
Cosmos 
Hibiscus Manihoot 
Rudbeckia Irish Eyes 
I would love to post some more roses, but the JBS eat them fast =)... Was able to get a serving out of the Green Beans even after the deer ate them down to nubs. Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 268 times
Sunrise, Datura , Dianthus Siberian Blues, Liatris etc...
Category: Wintersowing and Wintersowing Blooms | Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 1:47 pm Sunrise, through the foggy, mist filled air. I took several pics from my back deck, but this one captures the mood... 
Single White large datura, opens evening and closes before noon the next day... Fragrant and lovely... 
Dianthus Siberian Blues You have to try this one at some point! Really more purple/lavender than a blue. 
Blazing Stars (Liatris) (took me three years to wintersow succesfully, dont ask me why as they should be easy germinators!) 
I believe this is Coreopsis tinctoria or plains tickweed. I think I wintersowed some anyways =). 
Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 334 times
Best Seedling this year!
Category: DAYLILY HYBRIDIZING | Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:43 pm This was my best seedling this year.. Piping Rock X Jewel in the Crown It opens early in the morning, with no hang ups Was extremely winter hardy for me, my best semievergreen cross. Has light fragrance, has a pretty face. I like it! 
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Sunset, Zinnias, Calendula, Double Gold Rudbeckia etc...
Category: Wintersowing and Wintersowing Blooms | Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:28 am First, there was actually a sunset =P.. I usually cant tell becuase its been either cloudy or rainy... 
Pacific Beauty Calendula 
Different Zinnias 
Double Gold Rudbeckia 
Malva Zebrina (man, these things seem to hate me, Ive never gotten more than a small smattering of blooms) 
My one and only coneflower leftover from my deer attacks, I might get some more of the ruby star later... 
Another shot of the Apple Blossom Yarrow, finally starting to blush... 
Double shot of blanketflower glandiflora 
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Homemade Love X Berry Patch
Category: DAYLILY HYBRIDIZING | Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:58 pm Lovely Color on this one... Form is nice, I think this will be kept for awhile. I like it! It got its color from berry patch, I was hoping for a little bit of a looser form from homemade love, but oh well... 
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Sibling from Yesterday
Category: DAYLILY HYBRIDIZING | Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:29 pm Another Passion District X Born to Run baby... Colour is 10X better than yesterday, not much fragrance and lacks edge definition... but FFOs can be deceitful, will have patience... 
Have another cross hopefully bloom tommorow. Silverkelt Last edited: Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:29 pm This blog entry has been viewed 206 times
Passion District X Born to Run
Category: DAYLILY HYBRIDIZING | Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:15 pm First Flowered Open (FFO) on this cross, A little more washed out than I wouldve liked, this was later on in the afternoon and not as red as I was hoping for, but this may change with subsequent flowers. The form is pretty nice, the biggest attribute to this flower is its very fragrant, I love daylily fragrance, though not many are fragrant. 
Its sibling will open tommorow, so will be interested to see it. Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 226 times
Nicotinia , Phlox, Zinnias, Yarrow...
Category: Wintersowing and Wintersowing Blooms | Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:21 am Nicotinia, I think sensation mix... Nice fragrance. 
Annual Dwarf Beauty Phlox, looking patriotic... 
Zinnias are starting to flower, this one had a interesting colour mixture, however the photo came out a little blurry. Sorry! 
Appleblossom Yarrow, not sure about this, has a slight tinge of pink, but I much prefer the bolder colours of other yarrows, this might go still... 
Had to show this shot of Laurens Grape Poppy again, WOWZERS, the show is finally over for these... but it was nice while it lasted. 
Still waiting on Salvias, Calendula , Cosmos and Hibiscus Manihoot to flower. Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 811 times
Rosa Prairie Joy, bush shot of Vicks Caprice...
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:56 am Rosa Prairie Joy, candian parkland rose, another enabled rose that I got. Its supposed to be low growing , clean as a whistle and hardy. However, pickering sent me the smallest graft Ive ever seen from them. Usually they are a top notch vendor, still one of the best. I was a little dissapointed that they sent me something so small, even with a 2 dollar drop in price, this one was too small to be sent. Its going to take a couple of years to get up to snuff... 
Bush shot of Vicks Caprice, no complaint here, strong healthy plant on a perfect graft. This is the usual top grade pickering normally sends. You can see some of the deer damage at top. They havent been back since I fertilized with the plant tone, they never seem to like the blood meal smell of it, but its a temporary fix at best, the smell washes away and they come back, eventually. 
Couldnt resist, another shot of nikko blue hydrangea, which of course is very pink next to the the concrete foundation, leaching of lime and all that, you know =). 
Some annuals finally waking up, will have some pics eventually =) Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 839 times
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