Re: Spurias and seed collecting
Louise Parsons wrote:
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>
> I killed many of my first spuria seedlings by overwatering them in the
> summer... The ones that
> stood up to my overwatering were the larger potbound ones. This was sad
> because I was trying to get a collection of smaller ones and lost my best
> rock garden candidates.
>
One of Eleanor McCown's main thrusts in her spuria
hybridizing has been to reduce the height. I fell
in love with her Highline Snowflake (cool white
with small yellow signal) the first time I saw
it--the ruffling is so regular it seems to have
been chisled. I later told her that it was by far
my favorite spuria, and she commented that she
thought it was the highlight of her hybridizing career.
If you don't (didn't ?) have it, try to find it.
Gerry
