Re: Bloom Report and Hybridizing Notes

From: "S&C Rust" <srust@fidnet.com>

Not much time to stroll through the garden today, alas, but can report a few
new ones to open here this year:  BB Erin Stroll...this is a tall BB with a
frosty green tint; fine form, holds up to the wind.  Next to it Mellow
Fellow (small BB) has a pod from the MTB Abridged Version.  This is
interesting since Abridged Version doesn't always seem to have pollen here.
It is a curiosity...A small SDB, blooming small MDB size here for the second
year in a row is Gigolette from Barry Blyth.  It is a very bright little
plicata and I really like it.  The OGB arilbred Syrian Princess has a pod
from the plicata rebloomer Belvi Queen.  This may strike some as a very odd
cross, but we are aggresively crossing for reblooming arilbreds.  The
aphylla pollen is setting pods on everything from IB to MTB to TB;
rebloomers where we can use them.  In a very wide arilbred cross, we have a
substantial pod on the OGB+ Blue Arts x Flea Circus.  Alas, the two pods
that set on Andromache x Flea Circus are slim and seem to be shrinking away.
Drat!  Will try Andromache again next year (stubborness!).  As the light was
fading, I could see more things that had opened during the day while I was
gone, but will have to check later.  More on Saturday or Sunday!

Cindy Rust, Missouri.  P.S.  Anner, if you are reading, you will be
delighted to know that as I was driving through Missouri for hours I noticed
lots and lots of clumps of older things.  Some looked like Missouri (the
TB), which just opened here today; a lot looked like forms of pallida and a
few like Florentina.  There were some tall, tissue thin pale yellows,
fluttering in the breeze (okay, wind!) and quite a few two tone bronze/red
combos with triangular shaped falls... I saw them in abandoned fields, small
towns, town squares and roadside ditches; also a lot of two toned purples
with white beards.  It was fun seeing them and that folks obviously still
treasured them, though I bet few if any knew their names or histories.  It
was sad seeing the ones at the bases of delapitated old homesteads.  I
notice these same homesteads often boast cheery yellow daffodils and
beautiful fluffy peonies amid the grey boards and concrete rubble.  These
plants must miss the people that used to tend them, yet they are boldly
beautiful every year whether anyone is there to see them or not.  True
courage!


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