Northeast Gardening: What have you ordered for 2009 - Part 9, 1 by Hemhostaholic

Hemhostaholic wrote:
I started out, in regard to my DL crosses, my thinking, "I like this edge, and that eye, so I'll cross this with that." Then, after writing out about 30 or so individual tags, I was like, "Bugger that." So I started to do what I believe some people call "long" crosses. Where if I like the eye of one of my DL's, I'll cross it to everything, same goes with eyezones or edges. I've crossed, HEAVILY, Dark Music to just about everything out there a few times over. I've used 'Gary Colby,' on just about everything also. The other surprise for me this year was 'Autumn Jewels,' it's got anywhere from 3-5 way branching, and average bud count, per scape, is about 20-25. I like the eye on this DL, and the ruffling...and it's a nice sized flower at about 6" or so. I've dabbed the pollen from this guy onto everything a few times over also. That way, when I'm writing my tags out, I can just write out one name, a few dozen times, instead of a few dozen individual names...lol.

Below is a pic of Dark Music, the eye on this DL is stunning, and the contrast with the petals is superb, IMO.