Flowering Heuchera Hybrids - any experience?
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Comments (8)I have very few roses which do not get blackspot but am still too untogether to spray. However, Moonlight is one of my healthier roses. both grafted and on its own roots. Any blackspot it does get is sporadic, often only on lower or older canes and never enough to consider replacing one of my most reliable and graceful Hybrid Musks. Like a few of this class, the autumn flush is more abundant after a summer of growing generous new wood - the florets are larger as are individual blooms and the contrast between the deep red new growth (which remains for a long time) and the creamy white blooms has always lifted my spirits - it is also an easy rose to propagate, practically all cuttings strike well and the little roselets are strong enough to go into the ground during their first spring. It does grow large, even here in the UK it will easily grow 8feet tall and wide as a freestanding shrub (it resists training around a pillar but could be grown against a wall as a bushy climber)....See MoreHybridizing heuchera
Comments (2)Hi. Your question was in May and here it is at the end of December, but it sounds as though we are interested in the same thing...hybridizing heucheras. I am a novice at this, but here is what I've been told/read. First you need two different heucheras. Then when they are both blooming, take a flower that has polllen on it, and gently stroke that over the anthers of another flower. You might have to do this several times. The seed from this cross should produce quite a few plants that differ from one another if only a bit. Or, if you are like me. I just gathered seed from a plant I grew last season that was a baby from a packet of F1 seeds. No other heuchera was blooming so the flowers were all self-pollinated. The plant I used, from the F1 seed, is called and F2. So, the seed that I collected from the F2 plant, whom I call Mikey, will be called an F3. I was told that I should probably use another initial rather than F because I don't know wjo their parents were, bit since that original packet was "f", and because I'm not a professional breeder, I'm sticking with F. ha. Mikey has the traits of size, vigor, a long blooming period and a profusion of bloom and a nice clumping habit. He also has nice sized leaves that are green with darker veins. He appears to be somewhat resistant to mildew. I'm hoping that these positve traits will be passed on in some of his babies. My biggest problem is finding other heuchs. that bloom during the same time Mikey does, and that are big enough to gather pollen, or accept pollen. A have. or had one that was so little, I couldn't hardly gather any seed. I read a question dealing with Hosta hybridizing, (my other passion), That suggested you to pot a division, or the whole plant, and grow it in an accessible place, so that when they come into bloom, they are more accessible to reach, and are easier to hybridize, and easy to administer the proper 'aftercare'. I am going to try this with my few hueches. this season. My major worry is that I will mess up growing the babies. I think that I will 'winter sow' one or two trays and leave them outside until they would naturally germinate, and try a few inside with bottom heat and florescent lighting. Let me know how your hybridizing attempts went for you. I am a total novice so if you can correct me, or give me more advise, I'd be super happy to receive it. Oh, one essential thing. One the gardenweb donation site, there are a few species heuchs seeds. I have read where it is always good try a species X a hybrid. I guess this can give you more variety in the babies. Hope to hear from you....SAM...See MoreDoes anyone have any experience with a 'Freeman Hybrid' magnolia?
Comments (30)Sorry, he could have been, but it was so long ago I did this research I can't remember now. The part about being a community college professor is all I remember. I did find my email from Andrew Bunting in 2010: The Sequoia sempervirens we have on campus which does sometimes parade under the name of "Swarthmore Hardy" is from a plant we got from the Coker Arboretum in 1994 (i.e., the North Carolina/Venable tree, also marketed by Camellia Forest as 'Chapel Hill'.). We don't having any other old plants on campus. We do have a plant of Sequoia sempervirens that is about 30' feet tall that we got from the Barnes Arboretum in 1980. So I guess he means the larger S.s. on the Swarthmore campus, is the North Carolina/Coker/Venable tree. I can't say for sure because in spite a couple visits to the campus, I never noticed either one! As I said though, having owned clones of both for a few years now, they sure do look identical, so it corroborates Bunting's account. Now would be the time for someone to propagate the Barnes/U Washington clone! Sadly it isn't always easy. In 2016 I sent Cam Forest S.s. cuttings I collected at some elevation in the coast ranges after driving around for a day looking for one I thought would be in a 'cold spot'. It was a frost hollow at 1400'. Alas, the attempt to root them failed....See MoreYour hardiness experiences with Distylium hybrids?
Comments (4)reviewing my past posts - I only planted out D. 'Piroche form' for the 2nd cold winter. I seem to recall it had a bit of burning above the snow line but was mostly OK. OTOH I reported that a big one at Udel. arboretum (D. myricoides) was killed outright after the first cold winter, while a D. racemosum at least was resprouting. I'lll have to look for it again the next time I'm there, but I think it might have been one of the ones finished off by the second part of the one-two punch. I wonder if they were over-fertilizing some of their plants. With marginal BLEs you really need to grow them lean so they harden off well in the fall....See Moregardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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