Thanks Remy...this has been driving me crazy since I too received it at the summer exchange, and now it has bloomed. Very sweet and thanks for finding and sharing this information. Ginny B.

Tonight's the night! :-)

I have never heard of a common name for Colquhounia. I suppose "Himalayan Mint Shrub" is as good as any, though really it tells you nothing more than it's a shrub, it's in the mint family, and it comes from the Himalayas. Boring! If Dee or plantsplus don't manage to post a mystery flower in the next few days, I suggest someone else should have a go. It's an activity that seems to revive interest in this forum. I remember 2-3 years ago we had the same sort of thing quite regularly.

I can understand why Startle was such an important daylily, but for the life of me, I can't see why anyone would call it red. Washed out pink might be more like it. It has not been a good grower for us either. However, today, it had several flowers open. This is the best we have ever seen it. Dennis Russell has not been a very good grower for us. I am surprised how well Fantasy and Dreams (a Mark Carpenter daylily) has done for us. This is another late bloomer starting in June. I hope Firestone straightens up. The first couple of blooms have been blotchy. They are large, though, and very toothy. It also came through the winter fine. Saberback is quite a large flower. I think we are going to like Nogales. One of our interests is working with reverse bicolors. This is one we bought for that program--O'Bannon Orchid. Here are a couple of seedlings. I usually list the parentage, but this one has lost its tag so until we look at the map, we aren't sure. I think it is Lady Stephanie Victoria Redding X Terrorsaur. This is Bodacious Bite X (My Friend Mary Jane X Crimson Stories) That's enough for today. Nancy By the way, we did get rain this afternoon. The south and east part of Terre Haute had lots of damage and about 17,000 people are without power. We had a normal thunderstorm here with no damage. Nancy