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Wow! It took a few years? There might be hope for mine yet - yours is GORGEOUS!

Alexa

Interesting you said that Tigger. There was a lot of positive reception to pod sib #2 on another forum of DL hybridizers but I guess it's true what they say about opinions! I hate yellows and it is my least favorite of the 4.

Alexa

I like the second one.
Alexa

Butt Ugly and the pod sibs are finally coming into their own..... Last Flower Open for Butt Ugly http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/caliloo/Garden%202012/P1080747.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/caliloo/Garden%202012/P1080743.jpg Pod Sib #1 http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/calil...

Lovely edges - they are all super looking.

Alexa

I wish they were! There is one opening today that is just horrible looking. If the extra fat ruffly edges weren't hard enough to open properly, it is doing a polytepal thing again. And with 100F predicted and high humidity, I don't think it has a chance of looking decent. However, there were a coupl...

Yep - the 4th one is a keeper! Very nice.

Alexa

Remember Butt Ugly? Well - BU's pod sibs are a little nicer looking.... Butt Ugly http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/caliloo/Garden%202012/IMG_20120627_152907.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/caliloo/Garden%202012/IMG_20120629_135456.jpg Pod Sib #2 (late day, faded a little in the heat...

LOL KHT! I think you just named that good looking seedling.... it will be forever more known in my garden as "She Has Style"!

I LOVE IT!

Thanks
Alexa

I posted my suspicion that Butt Ugly may have been a pot of seedlings I stick in the ground out of desperation a year ago. I am not good at tracking crosses, so I will collect a few seed pods from DLs that I like to grow them out in the winter. Some I know the pod parent, but all are either OP or I ...

They look great! I lost Joan Senior a couple of years ago to some sort of rot, need to replace it. And I love PB - what a cutie!

Alexa

I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I think it might be an FFO on a seedling that I've never seen bloom. This entire bed was wiped out by deer last year and I had stuck several seedlings in there to grow them out along with the the ones I moved in a hurry. If it that is what it is, it is a very fast ...

This is the first flower open on it. I hope the next ones look better (or at least identifiable) LOL!

Alexa

No clue so far - I had to "emergency move" a bunch of stuff last fall when the front yard was dug up for the new sewer line, and I plunked stuff where ever it would fit. I was SURE" I would remember the easily identifiable ones.....

Alexa

Tigger wrote:You should call it 'Day-old Nachos'.

Day Old Nachos That The Dog Stole From The Trash And Horked Up might be more fitting. Darn it is ugly!

Alexa

What IS this thing and why haven't I dug it and tossed it before???????




(I apologize in advance to anyone who suffered eye damage from looking at this photo)

Alexa

All are lovely, but Fancy Face and Purple Maze are my favs... And I have always loved Little Rainbow!

Alexa

If you have customers who are interested in it, I would introduce it. You may not retire on the proceeds but if it makes people happy then what is the harm?

Alexa

I had an informal poll as to what to pollinate my pretty purple bi-color NOID? Well, after 2 seasons of no blooms, it put up a bloom scape last year and it was promptly eaten by the deer. :evil: So THIS year I kept a close eye on it and kept it doused in deer off and VOILA! We have baby pictures! Ye...

Thanks Morgans... I think it is absolutely Purple haze after looking at dozens of photos of it. Whatever, I am thrilled with it!

Alexa