This seedling is 9709-2C. It was from a cross where all the
seedlings bloomed in the first year except for this one . Many
hybridizers have said that if something doesn't bloom the first year
they take it out to make room for new seedlings...Nothing really great
came out of the cross in about the forty or so seedlings that bloomed.
I was tempted to toss the one that didn't bloom, but my curiosity got
the better of me. Despite the fact that my garden in VERY small, I
kept it and I'm glad I did. Not only do I like the color combination,
but I love the colors of the beard AND it actually sent up three
rebloom stalks this year! (Something it has not done up till now.) It
is great with growth and sends up lots of blooms. It is 14'' tall and
blooms early to mid in the SDB season. It has one branch and three
buds per stalk. I would not call it a rebloomer, Yet anyway....but it
has me wondering....
I used it in a cross the first year it bloomed and got some of
the most unusual seedlings for color that I've gotten yet. (I didn't
say they were worth keeping, just unusual) But I did keep some and I
have my eye on them. The origonal cross was (Chanted x Fairy Lore) and
my goal is to work for a reblooming pink plicata with a blue beard.
'Fairy Lore' would rebloom for me on occasion and it seems it has
passed a little of that on.....
I made LOTS of crosses based on the success of that first cross
and hope to have many new things to show for it this spring.....Hope
you like it.
