Best hosta flowers of the season are coming in
Spring is great. the second best part of the hosta season is just starting. the flowers from reds and fragrants!
A doug beilstein tet cross. unfortunately this one isnt fragrant but its larger than most. and brillant color! it uses mojito genes
another doug b cross
one of mine
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sandyslopes z6 n. UT
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A new flowering season in my sardinian garden
Comments (24)Hi guys, I'll like to thank you for comments, you're very kind :o) Aliska, you're right. Making plants association and colours combination it's a lot of thought, but it's also a lot of fun :o))) My garden needs much work especially in grooming (I hope this is the correct word) and watering. Weeds are few, plants in the beds are planted close togheter and the beds are all thickly mulched. I try to do not use pesticides, so my Roses are spryed just once per year. Enjoy some other picture! :o) This is probably my best favorite Rose of all: 'Odorata'! The bush in the photo is on his second year in the garden: he's 2 meters wide and 1,5 meters high, completely covered in wonderfully scented blooms all year round!! In the background, there's the buff and peach flowers of 'Safrano' Another little beauty - I love white Roses- 'Baby Albéric', supposed to be a bushy, reblooming sport of Albéric Barbier. A very worth growing variety. Another not widely known Noisette, 'Solfatare', traited like a shrub A corner of the formal pond in front of the house Roses, roses, roses!! ... 'Mme Louis Leveque', a Moss Rose The sweetly fragrant, princess of beauty and elegance 'Céline Forestier' Not a Rose, but a Poppy... California Tree Poppy ;o) - Romneya coulteri And more Roses... 'Louis Philippe d'Angers' and 'Le Vésuve' reflecting in the water... Ciao! :o)...See MorePost your three best combo pics of this season
Comments (32)My goodness, everyone has such a neat garden! What's up with that? Even the wild ones are neat! Thank goodness I didn't take any photos because I wouldn't post them anyway, lol. My gardens are way too messy. What wonderful photos! Even though I have a new-found appreciation for hot, bold colors, my heart still belongs to those pink/purple combos. I especially loved christinmk's salvia/campanula combo (gorgeous!), all of mantis' and franeli's pics, and for something a little different (for me!) thyme2dig's daylily and rudbeckia combo - love the way the rudbeckias pick up the yellow throat of the daylilies. Wow, thanks for sharing everyone. Prairie Love is right - we will need to resurrect this thread in about three months for inspiration! Dee...See MoreDaylilies with best bud count, branching this season
Comments (61)I didn't keep bud counts on all of mine but here are some clump shots of my most prolific bloomers. This first one may be a mislabeled seedling. One of the local hybridizers used to line out his seedlings in the same plot as my display garden. He did have an introduction out of 'Open Hearth' and I half suspect this may be a sibling. It was a real wowser though. I did count the buds on 'Desperado Love'. One scape had 32 buds, the rest counted in the high 20s. This is only a two year old plant in my garden. It blooms ML here and is still putting on a show. This one was sold to me as 'Mariachi' but I've learned it is actually 'Mariachi1' as the first "Mariachi" was a diploid that was never released. 'Mariachi1' is a tet. Take a look at this 2yr plant's branching & bloom. 'Mary Todd' is a real bloomer here too. Check out the scape on 'Mexican Maiden' 'Nile Crane' was absolutely gorgeous. Always a favorite performer here, 'Wild Horses' had a long bloom season And finally, my seedling 2007-048-003 (Jennifer Trimmer x Maltese Falcon) had what I would call 4-way branching (though when I asked the garden judges at regional to explain how they count branches they would have called this at least 6-way) and a budcount of 25 in its maiden bloom....See MoreHosta season over.....
Comments (24)Appears you are getting more rain now, according to Radar images. But none here in the NE GA Piedmont, on my little corner of the world. I'm into the 6th week without rainfall. The longest continuous period I can remember during the 44 years at this address. Even the 07-08 drought years weren't this bad. So far, I've managed to keep the trees and shrubs watered, with ¼ mile of garden hose, about the same amount of soaker hoses, 6 fixed overheads and 3 portable ones, plus 4 wands. Since most of the 1000+ Hostas are under tree canopies, they have fared pretty well. Those in exposed locations are watered by hand, 2-3 times per week. They're hanging on, but I am not seeing much new growth. Happy for you Phil, If any water is excess, please send it my way!...See Morebkay2000
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nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
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last yearlast modified: last yearhe does
an incredible amount of work goes into breeding a great one.
look how many he grows.
this is not a commercial operation. its one guys personal growing area.
diggerdee zone 6 CT
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my best hosta blooms..I CHEATED!!..these are surprise lilies (lycoris) planted behind Krossa Regal..Lol
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last yearnicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
last yearfor real..here's more..
a different Krossa Regal..different lilies..
mxk3 z5b_MI
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last yearThe mojito cross looks to be about 30% larger than most fragrant hybrids.
The white one is moonlight sonata
miles10612
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lindalana 5b Chicago
last yearlast modified: last yearI am in removing flower stalk camp. Unless plant looks cute as a whole with it.
Nicholsworth, your lilies are blooming? Darn.
Thank you for posting Doug's work area. Wow just wow how much work goes into evaluation and creation of new hosta.
I also like kikutii flowers.hosta_maker
last yearMaking a push for fragrants this year. very hard —low fertility and low percentages of fragrance. gathering all the fragrant tets i can.
he is working on brighter reds too.
ive gotten a few blushers and yellows from war and peace. but will it spoil the flower? we shall see. he keeps them isolated so they only cross to themselves.
Pieter zone 7/8 B.C.
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Friend of mine gave me a couple of divisions of 'Nightlife' last year fairly late in the season and I must admit I don't recall if they'd finished flowering when I got them but they certainly put on a show this year. In my yard the earliest of the fragrant flowered ones are the ones in the 'Fragrant Bouqet' family, like FB itself or 'Guacamole' usually a toss as to which I see first. 'Nightlife however kinda blew me away with how much earlier it was in flower, easily 10 days ahead of the usual suspects.
What really caught me off-guard was the colour of the flower, as in there is colour, not that sorta washed-out haze on the FB family. I keep telling myself there's a difference in fragrance between NL and FB, but it's subtle at best.
I do like the richer colours, such as what I get in 'Sea Octopus' for example.
Or 'Gooseberry Sundae'...
...not to forget clausa var normalis..
Pieter
P.S.Thanks for starting this thread, Doug. It's good to see there are breeders out there who have an interest in the colour of the flowers!
hosta_maker thanked Pieter zone 7/8 B.C.hosta_maker
last yearlast modified: last yearPieter,
Makes sense nightlife would be a little earlier with seiboldiana in it.
and you are not wrong. i have a few fragrant seedlings that definately have a different odor than the late ones. they are more subtle but it has a tart scent as well.
i call this one sweetart and it blooms 2 weeks before the fragrant bouquet crowd.
This white center one also has light fragrance. that is the big challenge. interesting foliage and nice fragrance or color in the flower. it has gotten alot of sun without burning so its a contender for intro. it has large thick leaves and grows well. most white center ones dont grow that well.
i picked up clausa normalis this year. doing some tests with that one toolove the reds.
djacob Z6a SE WI
last yearHere are a couple of mine:
Island Breeze
Designer Genes, excuse fried leaves
Munchkin Fire
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lindalana 5b Chicago
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steve duggins(Z6a) - Central Ohio
last yearThe deer have been my bane this year. Although I managed to keep them away in the spring, the daylily flowers proved irresistible no matter what I sprayed. I finally set up some motion activated sprinklers that worked well, but don't cover enough of the yard. Now that they know where to find food and my spraying efforts have diminished, they are eating some select Hosta leaves. However, it was earlier in the season when they decided the only Hosta they wanted to sample was my Beilstein seedling's flowers that I was looking forward to seeing in abundance this year. They looked pretty good last year:
(Mojito x Touch of Class) x Purgatory
And she walked right past the abundance of Navajo flowers that I've seen for a few years to nab all of these.
I do have an abundance of seed pods on this lovely flower if anyone is interested in growing some, let me know.
The plant form and leaf are pretty nice as well. It's supposed to be the same cross as above, but I suspect it is a complex one with Stingray, Brutus and Niagara Falls (among others) that I germinated at the same time.
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last yearlast modified: last yearya 2 seperate plants. sometimes i put siblings in a pot together and wait to see if they are keepers. well they grew up together and both keepers. bad idea to not seperate them earlier.
steve your deer have good taste :0
they do that here too. they eat just beyond the perimeter of the sprinkler. maybe you need a dog or robot. or robot dog.
mango lettuce bloomed today.
green streak in the flower
steve duggins(Z6a) - Central Ohio
last yearThe deer here are still learning. The sprinkler is startling and noisy so they haven't been back to that area even though the sprinkler is gone.
Here's one that is the same cross as what the deer ate, although the bloom is much later, tightly clumped and slightly fragrant.
And here is Doubled Up, the Tet form of plantaginea at only 4" long:
One of my favorites is Smokey Mountain. I think Doug Beilstein has been working on improving flowers and form for some time now.
And Rubies N Ruffles puts on quite a show over 3' tall and upright.
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last yearsteve duggins(Z6a) - Central Ohio
last yearDU survives just fine in the ground here in an exposed spot on the terrace. I've got that slightly fragrant tet to cross with it. Was hoping for Twice As Nice but not blooming in its second year here. I'll settle on trying Ambrosia this year.
I don't grow plantaginea (yet).
Here's another DB cross with Granny's Rouge that is a gorgeous yellow in spring but it doesn't last.
and Etched Glass (which also might make it onto Doubled Up).
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last yearRoyal crest is a new tet for me it sure is sweet smelling. a new take on royal standard.
crossing it with my super fragrant tet fragrant bouquet x heartacheHoping for pod set. with reliable fertility will come better leaf shapes and colors + fragrance
heartache x war and peace
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last yearlast modified: last yearAnother fragrant one from tony avent. its got interesting color on the flower
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djacob Z6a SE WI
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