Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Seedlings, 1 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Wonderful, Davie! You've had some great luck with getting some beautiful seedlings. I've waited six years only to have...yuck. I recently had a plain white bloom on a six-year-old -- how sad.

Some of yours are particularly beautiful and worthy of a name and registering. I particularly like #3 and #7. I can see some resemblance to existing named cultivars in some of your flowers; for example, I see some characteristics of Guiliot's Sunset, Gulf Stream, Brittany, Charlotte Ebert, Grove Farm. It would be interesting to know the parentage of some of your seedlings to see if they carried their parents characteristics or not.

I had a seedling bloom this season that is a seedling of Spidery Yellow or perhaps a different Yellow Spider -- I'm not sure which one it is now. It's just okay. It has a peach fragrance.

Many of my seedlings are just starting to get inflo's now. It's puzzling why they always seem to start to bloom as winter approaches. They are too big for a greenhouse, and some are in the ground so I may not see them bloom this year as well. The inflo's will mostly fall off this winter. If it stays warm for another two months, I might get to see them, but I think it may start to get cold around Halloween. I wish their blooming cycle would change.