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Amazing pattern 5 Jun 2013 | 05:39 am
Still lots of cold weather outside, and many of the daylilies have yet to emerge, or if so, just an inch. The soil temps are still quite cool. But inside the greenhouse, things are still hopping. Just...
Smell the roses, but watch the thorns on some of them:-) 18 May 2013 | 05:19 am
Last year I showed seedling 24312 and noted that I was planning to use it heavily in breeding (use search box to see more comments about it from last year). I used it on 44 different pod parents and h...
Gotta Have Faith 16 May 2013 | 02:31 am
Faith That Moves Mountains is a wonderful saturated purple that I never used much in breeding since it didn't have a super fancy edge and that was what I was going for in past years. That changed in 2...
A dominant pattern - at last! 12 May 2013 | 04:45 am
A year ago, I showed a picture of new seedling 26712 that had a distinctive pattern that was there for every bloom -the seedling is out of 52708, 40807, Entwined in the Vine, etc. Here is a picture of...
Cure for the winter blues 2 May 2013 | 05:03 am
Still cold and snowy here, but the greenhouse is bursting with blooms. These are some in bloom right now that I saw for the first time last year (37512, 14212,14612, 10212, and 10112 - and yes, the la...
More kids out of 1312 18 Apr 2013 | 10:24 pm
More pretty faces out of seedling 1312. For now, they are just pretty works of art. Won't know for a couple of years if they have the "right stuff" to make it in Minnesota. One flaw I am seeing in 131...
The season begins at last! 12 Apr 2013 | 02:31 am
Bloom in the greenhouse is running a couple of weeks behind past years, due to more cloudy weather than is typical. I numbered my first seedling on April 8. 0113 is out of two seedlings I saw last yea...
It's almost time:-) 20 Mar 2013 | 12:26 am
Scapes are starting to pop up everywhere in the greenhouse, and it is looking like I might see some bloom by Easter or shortly thereafter. Bloom seems like it will be a bit later this year than usual ...
"Live-heading" Process for the 2013 National Convention 21 Feb 2013 | 09:34 pm
I sent an email to the AHS round robin providing an update on the upcoming 2013 national convention. I commented that in 2007 when Springwood was on tour, it took about 15 people about 6 hours to "liv...
Most planted pod parents 20 Jan 2013 | 11:35 pm
I was asked which pod parents I had used most frequently during the spring of 2012 (with the seeds planted in August). Usually I have about 150 "mama" plants in clump size (seedlings selected from the...
