Gourd, I hope you got some seeds from your favorites so you can try again.
I don`t really want to call this one a kikyo because it also makes flowers to rounded in shape to be called the star or kikyo shaped flower. See what I mean here. These are all produced on one vine. I have it tagged and followed close so it is for real. I also will call it a type of kikyo if that indeed is the name for it.
Karen
This shows the variations found on this one vine.
This is another surprise from this vine.
The leaves look like this on a lot of the side shoots growing out. The leaves range from whirlpool kikyo looking leaves to long smooth textured willow dianthus like but much bigger than the willow dianthus and some have the little "ears" at the top. Next time I grow this I`ll take more pictures as the plant grows and show what happens as it grows. Karen
One more of my new baby. :)
You know how people take a lot of pictures of their first baby? I`m getting a little carried away here but I must post one more.
Thisis Sazanami F2 from a carefully hand pollinated pod. I see the blizzard but it isn`t showing in the picture very well. I see three more variations so it appears Sazanami might be a hybrid. There is another one that looks like the parent blue blizzard Sazanami so I`ll choose that vine to tie blooms for the next trial. One is a purplish color with a blue ray and the other is a light blue with a darker blue ray. There are two light ones and one more medium tones like the parent plant that I`m going to choose for the F3 generation.
This is a F2 grow out flower from some crosses I did this year. Karen
That's the best Sazanami I've ever seen! Drooling....
Beautiful Sazanami Karen
This is SUBURB!!!! http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4093398
Thanks for the nice words! It is encouraging. Ya`ll should have fun with the Sazanami open pollinated seeds I distributed. Even if the open seeds got some cross pollination they should yield some pretty flowers. Karen
Here's one for today that is still blooming strong.
Beth, That`s a beauty! I love the full blooms and I`m a little bit partial to blue. Has anyone noticed yet? LOL!
I`m glad to see you still have blooms to look at this year before frost calls it curtains for the garden.
Karen
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Karen, your new "baby" is a real looker! I believe that it probably has the star genes from a Kikyo and the dragonfly genes from a large flower plant. The petaloid features from the Kikyo background are excentuated when present by the large flower influence. The combination is very attractive.
The leaves shown here, clearly show the dragonfly influence as well as the enlarged rear lobes of the Kikyo heritage!. Cool plant!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=4093371
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=4089827
Have any of the single flowers produced seed pods?
Arlan
Hi Arlan, They are producing pods. A few of them are sterile but most of them can be pollinated. Some of the double flowers are complete as well. Next, more growing next spring to test them out.
There are two vines in this pot. One is darker blue rayed with white picotee and the other is a lighter blue color.
This is the single flower of the darker blue one.
Here is the lighter blue one.
This is another of the lighter blue one.
This is a close up of the doubled version of the lighter blue one. These forms are on the same vine. I know for sure because I have been marking the flowers and watching what happens next.
The darker blues are on the left and the lighter blues are on the right.
This morning they appear to be blooming and budding more.
This message was edited Oct 19, 2007 2:14 PM
This is another leaf that looks different.
It looks like Sazanami has two colors. A blue with a blue ray and a bluish color with a purplish toned ray maturing to all lavender later in the morning. I don`t mind a bit. I want to work with these and see if I can stabilize any of the characteristics. I`m having a good time growing this year. Karen
This message was edited Oct 19, 2007 2:45 PM
Some of my favorite blooms of the year!
Beth, Those are gorgeous they way they are full and flowing with color! Karen
Great flowers,
Gardener, yes, did get some seeds for almost all of them, some only a small amount.. hopefully i'll be able to grow lots of playtcodon types, they just are so elegant in their own way.
THose you posted are really outstanding.
Beth, I have one of those Blue silk watercolor looking flowers but in Lavender, I think I got a couple of seeds out of that, It has to be related in some way to Blue Silk, the seeds are also tan in color.
I sure liked these....but they only bloomed so late in the summer that I'd almost given up on them!
Karen love the saznami ♥
Beth the blue one is gorgeous!! I love it♥
Karen and Beth - All those blooms are truly beautiful!!! Love the color of blue on each cultivar, too! Very, very nice! :-)
Hi Everyone . . .
Been gone a whiile and need to catch up.
At a glance - and after getting up off the floor . . . KAREN!
Your Blooms are Magnificant.
I must come back and look more closely. Maybe I will be back to earth in a week or two.
Emma
New Thread
Morning Glories 2007 #31
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Back Side of my Square Pink
Drool, drool, Karen. I luv this one http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4085570. Am I first in line or last....lol!!
Of course I'm drooling also over Gourd's, Beth's and Emma's!!!!
:) Donna
