Mike Derrow’s Tetraploid Seedlings
2008 DERROW UPDATE AND INTRODUCTION
Garden named “TOAST AND JAM”, this ANGEL’S
SMILE * EYE ON AMERICA seedling is a heavily diamond dusted cinnamon orange with
a purple eye and double edge of purple and gold plus the throat goes from yellow
to green, deep in the heart. This
seedling will greet you fully open at
This is a striking patterned seedling out of ALTERED STATE breeding.
The width of the outer band of white is ½ inch all segments of the bloom
and the colors are very clear. Another
important trait if this bloom is that the petals are rounded at the tips instead
of pointed like so many of the patterned seedlings out of ALTERED STATE.
One bad trait is that this plant is pretty tender – I’m remaking the
cross and doing some variations to see if other, more striking patterns can be
achieved with hardier plants under them.
This seedling is from two
near white parents from the Stamile lines…finally, a white seedling with a
great edge had bloomed in my garden and to top that, there is the beginning of
inlaid ruffling too. This is by far
the best edge on any near-white, registered plant or seedling in my garden.
It is a 6.5” bloom with tremendous substance and will be carefully
evaluated over the next few years; meanwhile, the pollen has gone on lots of
other seedlings.
This striking 4.5” bloom
is a cross of MOON MUSIC * SUPREME EMPIRE. Extremely
heavily substanced and very flat in form, the blooms on this seedling carry the
most diamond dusting that I’ve every seen…It is easily fertile both ways
(unlike SE). Obviously, the edge is
just incredible for a northern grown plant, fully ½” of deep, pleated ruffles
with hooks and small serrations that turn into large teeth with warm
temperatures. Very slow to increase.
This is not just another
cream with a rosy eye and edge – the size of this one is fairly unique at
close to 7” and the cream color of the petals is much whiter than the photo,
plus it’s out of BAYPORT breeding and carries the dormant trait of that
parent. It’s very fertile both
ways, has a nice tall scape (much taller than BAYPORT in my garden) and I’ve
taken it to BRAIDED EDGINGS, CLARIFICATION and the seedling below.
This is a very hardy SABINE
BAUR seedling with a unique edge for the north.
SB shows a bubbled, purple edge but this one takes that one step further.
In places on the petal edge, it adds more white petal tissue outside of
the normal edge, then it adds another purple picotee onto the new tissue.
This effect is consistent
indoors and out and happen on all petals. There
is rebloom and a decent scape too. Crosses
have been made into the CLARIFICATION lines for dormant genes, branching,
rebloom, etc., and with BRAIDED EDGINGS.
This seedling is a 7”
lilac with a white edge out of SHIMMERING ELEGANCE x
A sib to the lilac seedling
above, this one has the same traits – branching, budcount fertility and
rebloom – in a different color and different form.
The second photo shows a clump of 4 fans in the greenhouse with 6
scapes…
There are green edges on
white and pink tetraploid flowers but this is the first purple flower that
I’ve seen with a green edge – out of S. Moldovan’s SALEM WITCH, the edge
on this flower looks like little pieces of metallic green foil are embedded into
the tissue though you can’t see the sparkling metallic effect in the photo.
This photo is of the first bloom and the sepals didn’t quill on
subsequent blooms. I know it’s
fertile both ways but it bloomed late in the season so I didn’t get to spread
much pollen. There are 2 siblings to
this that both show green edges but both are inferior flowers.
If the plant improves in the next couple of years, it will be a sure
intro as the blooms are spectacular.