HYB: nice one today

I was tickled to see a pretty seedling today:  A deep wine-colored
luminata-plicata, almost a solid "self", but from less than two feet away an
overall veining pattern is visible.  Nice and tall, 5 total bud sites; though
on this initial bloom it appears they may not all be multiple-budded sockets
(so probably less than 10 overall, at least this first time.  Nice color and
very nicely ruffled.  The falls bend down more than I prefer, but this may be
personal preference.  One parent was Laugh Lines, but this has a deeper
wine/plum rather than a magenta color.  It may have a non-white ground color -
I'll have to double check.  The veins don't stand out as much as on Laugh
Lines.  One negative was a somewhat spindly stalk.  I wonder if the fact that
this plant has WAY too much shade (wedged between a mature flax and a banana
shrub, and behind two philodendrum evansii and a clump of 3 young king palms)
has something to do with that.  I was surprised it grew well enough to bloom
at all.

I also have some strong, tall pink seedlings out of Valentines Day.  Last year
on their first-ever bloom they were all pretty but short, small, and hard to
choose between.  The first one this year was a winner (but is it really unique
enough for a no-name hybridizer to consider for - someday - introduction?).
Some of next week's new flowers have lovely lacy mauve-pink buds.  Can't wait
to see how those compare.  I'll have to try to figure out if the mauve ones
all came from the same original rhizome.  Probably so; I don't remember seeing
a mauve one bloom there last year.

John Reeds
lamegardener@msn.com
San Juan Capistrano, CA (zone 9b)

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