SEEDLING PAGE 14
O4-11 A STARTLING DEVELOPMENT
The following images are of a plant that has our complete attention. It is a direct baby from SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. The first image is the appearance in the early morning. The second represents the look at 10am. The remainder are various shots taken later in the day. In person, the color can only be described as turquoise. My wife, Janice, is a passionate quilter. She deals with true blue in fabric all the time. Jan has never admitted to seeing any blue in any daylily we have ever grown here. She freely refers to the color here as turquoise. We discovered this seedling late in the season. The few people who saw 04-11 were unanimous. Among the comments were: "It is turquoise." "It is beautiful."
Our thanks to Karen Martin of Lancaster, Ohio for use of the last image. While that image overemphasizes the blue component of the color it does give an idea of the impact of the blossom in a way that none of my own images could. The second image from the last shows some of the jade component of the color. The green component could be a lot of fun to play with also.
Here is an image of 04-11 that we took in '05. It is just the way it came off the camera with no adjustments of any kind other than a cropping of the image to fit the screen better.
We do not know where this seedling will take us. The most exciting thing is that the turquoise is not to be found in the eye. I am not aware of any turquoise having been seen in any daylily. I have heard that Elizabeth Salter has had some turquoise in an eye zone. The presence of these pigments in the petal area leave open the possibilities for some colorations unlike anything we have seen before.
'06 note There was just enough indication in a couple of seedling that some of the ability of this seedling to lose its overlay of color to reveal turquoise/jade can be passed along to the babies. There is nothing approaching a finished flower yet but the preliminary results are encouraging.
Fascinating, fascinating, fascinating! This is a seedling out of PIGMENT OF IMAGINATION, 09-8. It is not a flower that is a complete package, at least the way it bloomed in 2009. However I have seen a first year seedling become a very different flower in its second year. Such maturation brings a clearer picture of what the plant actually is. It is hard to imagine that the green on the petals will disappear. My guess is that it will become enhanced. But only time will tell. In any event we have never seen anything remotely like this in that the green on the petals closely matches the green of the leaves. I suspect that there will be some interesting babies that will eventually arise from this breeding. It just further emphasizes the potential of the highly inbred SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE lines and especially in the direct babies of PIGMENT OF IMAGINATION.
What we see here is a seedling from 2008. It is a direct baby of PIGMENT OF IMAGINATION. By clicking on the image you will be able to see the veining on this flower. They are a grass green. Once again, the directions that such a phenomenon can take us is unclear. Yet, so much can come of pursuing the promise of such a characteristic. Again, only time will tell where this seedling will take us. ( And I do mean take US. If we are determined to be in charge of the breeding and insist that we take the flowers where we want to go, we are setting ourselves up for a load of disappointment and frustration. Go with your breaks. Follow your intuition. Let the flowers take you where they wish to go. You will get so much farther!)