Wow, what a beauty! I can see why you would be thrilled! Too tired to come up with a good name suggestion, but glad that I got to see your baby!

Julie

What is the cross?

Wowza! That is a beauty! Is this your 1st registration? I am so bad at naming things, usually comes down to a story of some sort.

What about that seedling with the funky eye and picotee edge? That one has been lingering in my brain since you posted it. I hope you register that one too.

What a gorgeous daylily! I'm betting Mort Morss is one of the parents.

Debra

Miss Piggy....It totally reminds me of her with the pink and the red center "lips" and the golden blond "hair". That name would be adorable!

How about "WOW" !! Just beautiful!

Congratulations on your first intro!! Lovely color and edge and the stats look great too. Way to go!

Linda

What a beautiful seedling. Let us know what name you decide on. Judy

Sunshine of My Heart, it made my heart happy and I thought of a sunny day.

Sharon

Beautiful! Red Petticoat or can can flirt.

What a beautiful seedling. If this were my first registration, I would want to name it after a family member or something sentimental. Although I do like the suggestions above.

Good luck with whatever you call it and let us know what you decide.

Vickie

That's impressive. I bet you are very proud and won't have a problem naming it.

Debra,

Believe it or not we haven't planted any Mort Morss seeds yet in 3 years. Made quite a fw, but just didn't desire to plant any yet. Maybe this year there will be a cross we want to plant.

It's our of PAINTING THE ROSES RED X RUFFLED STRAWBERRY PARFAIT.

lalalandwi,

Right now we have 3 that we will register. 2 from the 2007 seedlings and now this one. We probably have 3 more from 2008 year, but they haven't bloomed yet.

That seedling your talking about will have to prove itself in next year or 2.

SO folks understand these few are the product of approx. 3,000 seedlings. Lots of pretties, but they had no plant, scape, or bud count to them. More muddy gaudy colored than anything though!

Thanks for the compliments.

Best,
Bruce and Tanya

I am so excited for you! All that hard work & money is now starting to pay off! Can you share the pics of the 07 seedlings that will be registered? I'd be very interested in seeing those too.

I hope that seedling proves itself in the next year or 2. I have yet to see anything like it, & trust me when I tell you I look at a ton of dls. No one that I am aware of has anything close to it & it appears you are on the cutting edge. This makes me doubly excited for you! You have alot of very unique seedlings & definitely seeming to come into a look of your own. Alot different than alot of seedlings I see that look like all the other dls out there. I look forward to seeing alot more of your futures.

PS: Not sure if you remember or not, but you helped me find Ruffled Strawberry Parfait from a vendor. I am forever grateful & can't wait to see mine bloom!

first thing i thought was raspberry or strawberry sundae.
on second look i thought more like shortcake. how about strawberries and cream?

diggerb

Very nice! How about, ummmm....Red Carpet Diva. She looks like a diva with her gold bling edge and her swanky red color. Lol, I'm a nincompoop!

Karen

No suggestions for names but I am sure you will figgure something out. It is just a stunner though. Difficult to believe its not one hybridized in Florida with that wonderful edge.

lalalandwi,

If this is the seedling your talking about we have it marked to put into the evaluation bed. It must have good branching with good BC to impress us. Being as there is only 7-8" between seedlings as we grow them we can't really tell too much until we get them less crowded. The ones that have a single lateral branch with some more bracts under it on the scape can have 3-4 branches in less crowded conditions. Time will tell.

Folks there are some really pretty blooms in the seedlings, but what good is a plant with 10 buds and no branching? Combine that with no bracts on the scape and you can never have any branching, so you have a nice flower for at best 10 days if not less.

The first year your all excited with your new babies that are all your own and make seeds like crazy.

The 2nd year you start to realize that some of those first year babies aren't so exciting anymore, see some more new seedlings, look alittle closer at the plant, start to think more about what your doing and produce a bumper crop of seeds again.

The 3rd year you realize those first seedlings are really not anything special and throw them in the compost pile. You see more new seedlings from crosses with more thought behind them and see more that excite you. You clean out older beds except for the ones you want to evaluate and transplant them. Your thinking much longer about what crosses to make, only use certain plants for certain things and make tons more seeds.

Now in the 4th year the seedlings are really starting to get interesting, your getting many more exciting blooms and your just beginning to notice the plant under the bloom. When it comes to transplanting them in the evaluation area..you barely notice the plant, but you have used plants that should give better branching and bud counts. Of course you still made 5000 more seeds than you can plant.

The fifth year comes along and you start to realize of those 90-100 plants in the evaluation beds are mostly throw-a-ways as far as intro's go anyways. A few you will keep to hybridize with and a few you will think about registering. The rest are at best good for seedling sales at worst for the compost pile.

Anytime you can get to visit a hybridizers garden you try to do it. We really haven't much time during bloom season, but we will take off about 4 days not only to see their new seedlings...to also talk, ask questions and listen...usually it's with a couple of friends or just 1 on 1.

Now do you really want to hybridize? It's not as easy as you think it is and you must have a passion to do it. It's alot of work, but it is very much a pleasure and a challenge for us. Nothing like going out with a coffee in your hand strolling through the seedlings and seeing all the gifts that Mother Nature has blessed you with.

Cheers

I'm sure it's a lot of work. But from looking at the beautiful results it must be worth it. I have no doubt you will have no difficulty thinking up a name. If it proves successful and is up for sale at some point I hope you will tell us on the forum.

Beautiful! Congratulations. So interesting to read about the (grueling) process of hybridizing.

My first thought for a name was "ELATION."

Yes, that's her!! I hope she proves herself! There is nothing like that out in the market now as far as I'm aware of. That ruffly form & well as the picotee edge screams the sense of a refined daylily. Absolutely gorgeous!

I've been trying to come up with a name for you & can't come up with anything. BUT, I will contribute in the sense of what NOT to do, start off naming your dls with a series of anything feminine, peaceful, or godly. I think Gossard is kind of funny naming all those toothy cultivars "Heavenly....", just don't seem to fit with something toothy. I think the latest I laughed about was Heavenly Monkey something or other, there is nothing heavenly about a monkey in my mind.

That's outstanding! I like the name 'Tropical Glory'...

What a fantastic seedling! I don't have a great name to offer (although "SHAZAM!" briefly ran across the front of my brain when I saw it).

Thanks for sharing the benefit of your hybridizing experience. I've puttered with my own seedlings the past couple few years, but I'm nowhere near being a serious hybridizer. If I get a couple good garden plants out of the seedling bed each year, I'll be happy. Registration? Not very likely, unless something totally remarkable turns up out of the blue. If you do decide to offer seedlings on the LA, please let us know on the forum.

Laurel

We have just put 4 seedlings up on the LA last night from our evaluation bed. These are not just seedlings from the main growing area.

Alias is Lilydude

Cheers

All of your daylilies are beautiful!

Here is a link that might be useful: Lilydude auctions

I look at the seedlings on the LA but have not purchased any because most sellers give no information about the plant other than a picture and how many fans. Thank you for posting the stats of the daylily. It sure does help in deciding to purchase.

Andrea