AUCTION IS  FOR 5 SEEDS FROM THE CROSS OF DRAGONFLY DAWN X BLUE SWALLOWTAIL.

POD PARENT:

DRAGONFLY DAWN (Jane Trimmer) Tetraploid (Solar Blue Angel X Jamaican Love) 36" E. Re Ev. 7 ˝"This cultivar starts out early with first blooms as a light creme yellow with an eye pattern of blue and raspberry. About a week into the season the base color pales out closer to creme with a rainbow eye pattern of lavender, blue, raspberry and yellow. DRAGONFLY DAWN is the most fertile cultivar I have ever used! It set every pollen I used and Dan and I set 2000 seed on it last year as a pod parent. Dan believes it is one of our most important parents ever! The first seedlings from it were extraordinary and from the first dozen and a half seedlings that bloomed, we kept half of them. Dan’s two best patterned seedlings last year were from a cross of DRAGONFLY DAWN X TET TEXAS KALEIDOSCOPE. They both had a excellent eye patterns! DRAGONFLY DAWN did wonderfully in Ohio last winter. It has 25 buds and 3 laterals.

POLLEN PARENT:

Flowers of Blue swallowtail are creamy white with multi banded eye zone of blue, violet, purple and maroon with a very green throat.  Blue Swallowtail is an extremely rare dormant from this cross. Maybe one in a million . It is a very easy pod parent full sun and pollen is just as good. Should grow well in all zones.  A super hybridizing and garden plant.

*BORN TO BE WILD (Pierce, G.) 8163-A (((Calling All Angles x Sue Brown) x Mountain Wildflower) x Fringy) SEV EM 32”  6.25” flower, 6 way branching, 35-40 buds. The perfect name for literally a perfect modern daylily, and “Oh My Heavens” a great parent!!!  In 2008, I wanted to put a green edge all around the edges of Floyd Cove’s richly colored eyed daylilies.  Of course I got the stuffed shirt lecture… and as you can see by this cross I put the lovely Fringy on our edged and eyed hems.

From six seed came four keepers, two dormant and two SEV.  All were extremely pod fertile and began throwing winning offspring.  I was going to introduce one of the dormant sibs but it looked too similar to BTBW to be released.  Anyway, BORN TO BE WILD has all the modern criteria that are essential to be released as a Floyd Cove daylily.  Low arching foliage, scape height and buds, color clarity, health, and a unique look, BTBW got it’s great fertility from the pod parent, and will accept any pollen you give her easily.  This trait has been passed down to her future offspring, and they are dreamy.  The base color of BORN TO BE WILD is a clean near white with a plum purple eye and a matching purple picottee, the picottee is then completely edged in chartreuse.  There is also a bright green throat.  Very easily fertile.   Limited.

OUR SEEDS WERE PRODUCED IN OUR GARDEN.  THEY WILL HAVE BEEN IN THE REFRIGERATOR FOR AT LEAST 3 WEEKS WHEN THIS AUCTION CLOSES.  WHILE WE RECOGNIZE THERE ARE MANY POSITIVE REASONS FOR GREENHOUSE PRODUCTION, WE LIKE TO KNOW THAT AT LEAST ONE PARENT IS HARDY HERE IN ZONE 5.  THIS IS A POSITIVE THAT EVEN MANY OF OUR FRIENDS ON THE GULF COAST VALUE AFTER LAST WINTER.  UNLESS OUR SEEDS HAVE TWO 2014 INTRODUCTIONS AS PARENTS, YOU KNOW THAT AT LEAST ONE PARENT CAN HANDLE COLD WEATHER.  SHIPPING WILL BE BY USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL.  WE SHIP ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.  SEEDS ARE SHIPPED IN ZIP-LOCK BAGS ROLLED IN BUBBLE WRAP AND SENT IN A PADDED MAILER.  WE CAN COMBINE UP TO 15 PACKETS IN OUR PADDED MAILERS FOR ONE SHIPPING FEE.  WE WILL NOT SHIP YOUR SEEDS UNTIL YOU REQUEST US TO.  SHIPPING FEES ARE $3 FOR UNITED STATES SHIPMENTS AND $6 FOR ALL INTERNATIONAL SHIPMENTS.  WE MUST COLLECT 7.25% STATE SALES TAX FROM ILLINOIS RESIDENTS.  BONUS SEEDS WILL BE INCLUDED IF PAYMENT IS RECEIVED WITHIN 10 DAYS OF AUCTIONS CLOSE.