Re: HYB: good pod parents?
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: HYB: good pod parents?
- From: "* G* C* <j*@erols.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 19:32:24 -0600 (MDT)
J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey wrote:
>
> this morning when I stopped
> by our club's display beds at the State Capitol to cut spent stalks, I
> found a big healthy clump of one cultivar in which it appeared that EVERY
> pod on every branch on EVERY stalk had been fertilized! A prodigy of
> desire. . .
>
> Now the bad news: This plant's name has evaporated. It is an amoena with
> apricot falls, tangerine beard. If I ever do track down the name, I'll let
> everyone know what it was so our newbie hybridizers who want the thrill of
> success can take advantage of what appears to be a scandalously willing
> nature.
>
> celia
Celia -- Your amoena sounds like Barry Blyth's AMBER SNOW. From the 1989
Checklist:
"S. pure white; F. rich apricot; bright tangerine beard."
In my garden, it is a prolific bloomer and willingly sets seed.
Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac, where the TBs are almost all gone,
and REFINED is starting its second bloom. jgcrump@erols.com
