enchanted double white

it's finally blooming! yay! dropped its second skirt too.

Wow, that is very striking. Congratulations!

Erick

I just got mine in the mail from Seed Sprouts and I will have to wait for a while before I see mine but I love seeing yours. Joan

gorgeous! gotta love those doubles, and the whites are so pretty too!

Oh wow, it is so pretty! And look, it has its stamen sticking out just begging for pollen.

spellbinding....gotta get me one!!

That is so beautiful and elegant looking.Congrats

Mary, its pretty. I grew it back in 2002-03 and found it to be a good bloomer. I crossed with it too and got a nice double, one that we call 'Kassandra' and one yellow. All of them have the stigma pointing out over the corolla as they were pointing tounge of the viewer. I see, that its a trait from their mother LOL
Tonny

Tonny, I just got mine for crossing and would love to see some picture of your crosses of hers. Joan

Joan, this is EDW x Ecuador Pink. None of the seedlings were worthwhile, but this one. The corolla walls were too thin and the flowers were beautifull only for 1-3 days.

edw x goldenes kornett from the side. Nice and good color. It blooms in flushes.

5 days old flowers on the same cross.

same cross, EDW x Goldenes Kornett. A white double.

Also EDW x Goldenes Kornett 'Kassandra'

A nicely cut flower

She flower in flushes, but the flushes come so close to each other, so its always covered in flowers. Also the side branches flowers very early, so there is flowers most of the way down along the main stem.

Tonny, Thank you so much. I learned a lot about what a cross will do and not do from you. I am brand new at all of this and there is so much to learn. The yellow was just beautiful. If it is all right with you I will try that cross. Thank you again, Joan

Wow..What more can you say..I was thrilled with my first blooms a few days a go and still going strong now I want more..I am addicted for sure and was about to give up..

Joan, I love the idea, that you will make the cross, but I am not sure, that 'Goldenes Kornett' is available in your country. But good substitutions available are B. aurea hybrid 'Bert' and B. aurea hybrid 'Yellow Gold'. Susie (Calalily) made (as I recall) several good crosses using Bert. 'Yellow Gold' have for example been used to create B. x 'Whiskers'. Its widely grown for its long tendrils and good blooming capabilities. 'Whiskers it self has been used by Gloria to create a yellow double called B. x 'American Pride'. 'Enchanted Double White' has an advantage to for example B. x candida 'Knightii' and B. x candida 'Double White', because 'EDW' is not white alson. It also show peach strikes a few days before the flowers fade. The colored strikes means in my book, that behind its whiteish apperance it has also hidden genes for color and when crossed to a hybrid, that has good color genes, at least a few to several seedlings will develop color.

Its not always obvious to tell, if a hybrid will pass on color. Its unusual in my personal experience, that you can experience to cross color x color and get up to 99% whiteflowering seedlings and at the best a few with color, but that can happen, if you select the wrong hybrids for crossing. 'Charles Grimaldi', 'Frosty Pink', 'Isabella' are a few hybrids, that are almost never worthwhile as their offspring often are white and often not especially pretty. There are exceptions LOL 'B. versicolor 'Ecuador Pink' (some say B. x candida) are also tricky in regard of passing its color on, but will do in certain good combinations. My own experience was 'EDW' x 'EP' and that was all white or peach seedlings and there is only one seedling, that I still evaluate.
Tonny