Great White Dove (Pierce G., 2012) x Shimmering Dawn (Pierce, G., 2014) - 6 sds, bonus
All crosses have been made in my garden and are from the 2017 crop. Seeds are all from true to name registered daylilies. Seeds have been dried 2 days and kept in the refrigerator, ready to plant. I give bonus seedsof my choosing with each shipment.
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The first parent listed in the title is the pod parent and the second pollen Thank you for your interest in this seed
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Shimmering Dawn (Pierce G. 2014) TET (Angels Gather Around X Fringy) X Sib to Fancy Lace) TET SEV EM 40” 6.5” flower, 9 way branching, 60-70 buds.
I could fill up the page with comments on this tremendously fine near white daylily, but it’s the edge and stats that are the real winners. Base color is cream white with a dash of pink unlike the usual yellow. This makes the yellow gold edge pop ever so more beautifully. Shimmering Dawn has not only been by far my best breeder in this color class but after blooming thousands of the best edged white seedlings for years… to see only seedling beds of nines & tens, -Wow- there she was; an Eleven! Let me tell you it’s not easy having a winner genetically jump the fence as I like to say, and then next year being clever enough to come up with something Better…
Nothing comes close to the thick bubbly edge on Shimmering Dawn. At over ˝” thick there is; No hanging, water spotting, nothing but elegance and style. You’ll see… As a parent, this year I took Shimmering Dawn to outcross colors in desperation due to the lack of other big edges with plant habit, and let me tell you I stood back cross after cross and was delighted in how well she worked. First I saw the winning flowers and form, and then the signature scape
Geat White Dove (Pierce G.) TET 828-A (Shamrock Dew x Fancy Lace) 38” 6.5” flower, EV emo EEre, 9-way branching with 50 buds. Arching Foliage. Fragrant.
No one has had the success with cutting edge whites as Floyd Cove and to be honest even though I have made hundreds and hundreds of white seed, the ability to IMPROVE on our existing lines has been futile until Great White Dove.
From two flowers I so adored, the big wide face of Fancy Lace, and the green in Shamrock Dew, I was able to make approx. 50 seed from this cross. This is a lot since the whole Dream Runner line is so tough to use. There were bigger blooms, greener, more ruffled etc. but none of them had all the traits I was looking for until Great White Dove bloomed, and so she tamed everything else in the cross. With over 50 flowers towering above the arching foliage, the blooms never a hang-up even though the flowers are adorned with the biggest ruffles and angel wings of any white in the nursery. Even the sepals are ruffled.
Great White Dove is a beacon of modern perfection. The shade of white though having a ˝% tint of lemon is not only THE WHITEST of all our introductions, but certainly the most ruffled, and has the heaviest substance too. Furthermore at 5pm even after the sprinklers have been on, the blooms appear almost untouched. Fertile both ways, and an easy pod parent with some shade, Great White Dove will be one of those daylilies that will have that modern look even a decade from now!. Like Shamrock Dew this flower loves spring and cool nights, and is wide open at dawn when she blooms here in March