Re: FOGBOUND, etc.

I got really excited when I saw the Ghio FOGBOUND seedlings.  There are at least three in his catalog introductions, the widest, fullest onem even though it  doesn't match the verbal description too well, as the photo shows more color than the verbal describes, but the form and width of haft are astounding.  I sent for TREASURED. 
 
I can hardly wait for a chance to cross it with some of Keppel's Fogbound offspring, such as CRYSTAL GAZER or PARIS FASHION.  I have a couple Paris Fashion babies and some from one of its sibs thanks to some crosses made for me in Keppel's garden in '02, but my growth on seedlings this past summer was pathetic and almost none of them are big enough to bloom.  I get to anticipate them for another year.
 
I had a five-foot row of FOGBOUND last year, but gave away, sold or discarded down to a couple fans because I didn't realize I'd want to use it in crosses this year.  I've got a raft of babies from it to bloom, and if the sample I saw last year is an indication, there are going to be some fun ones with which to make more crosses than I'll have room to plant.
 
One thing about FOGBOUND I most appreciate is its habit of putting up a succession of bloomstalks following the main one, with plenty of other increase left over for the next year.  I note that Joe mentions that about one of the intros.
 
Crosses from Fogbound with some of George and Mike Sutton's blue and "dark top" SA:s from Honky Tonk Blues and related ancestry (which Fogbound shares, by the way, as it is a grandchild of HTB) may well be especially fruitful of quality offspring.
 
Neil Mogensen      z 7   western NC

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