COSMIC KALEIDOSCOPE

(CARPENTER 2006)

DIP – D-02-TKB - (27”-MRe-6.5-Ev) –TEXAS KALEIDOSCOPE X “super fancy face” – Wow! is the word often heard as visitors look at this gorgeous and intriguing daylily. The scapes are 27” with five-way branching and 27 buds. The 6.5” flowers are flat-faced, consistently good, and very fertile both ways. This is a wonderful parent and produces high count number of seeds per pod. This we consider to be our best of the Kaleidoscope releases to date. Don’t miss this one for variety and distinction for your garden. COSMIC KALEIDOSCOPE is unique and extremely fertile both ways.

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CHASING YOUR DREAMS

(Gossard, James) 2015 introduction Seedling # C191

(Patrick Starfish) x (EmeraldStarburst)

Diploid 42" Early Mid season Dormant, Nocturnal fr 7" 4-5 way branching 16-22 buds. Fertile both ways.Rebloomer. Very good rust resistance. Northern Hardy.

Flowers of Chasing Your Dreams are dark maroon purple with a feathered purple violet eye zone with a very large green throat Chasing your Dreams is my number one daylily of this cross. Chasing your Dreams andStargirlwere the roundest of all thesibs. Both can be pushed to the round or narrow forms. For many years I disliked nocturnal daylilies because they start opening the night before and lose color by noon and close up by late afternoon. Living in the north we have cold nights, 50 degrees F sometimes. As a result flowers open poorly, the pattern daylilies seem to be the worst. I wanted a daylily that was perfect in the mornings after a cold night but yet take the high heat and still look good at 8 PM. Everyone said could not be done. However with this new line from Patrick Starfish and EmeraldStarburstI got what I was looking for. Chasing your Dreams,Moneymaker,BatgirlandStargirlare the first of many future generations which corrects for this problem in the north. Soon we will have broken patterns around the edges as a result of the eye zone becoming the edge, which can be the patterned part of the daylily. Zebra Power crossed to these are a good starting point. Because the substance and color saturation is so good in Chasing your dreams andStargirl, it takes a very good broken pattern breeder to give you want you want. A super good parent for hybridizing large patterned daylilies. Chasing Your Dreams is super pod fertile. Pollen is great to, but you can set so many pods why even use the pollen.LoLThis is a very important daylily for the hybridizer. A super good daylily for the garden as well......$150 single fan.

Chasing Your Dreams and Money Maker has also been a great parent to cross withtetraploids. Crossing knowntetraploidsto Chasing Your Dreams and Money Maker has produced viable seed. Almost all crosses require embryo culture but I been successful bypassing this method. This seed produced istriploid.Triploidsare usually sterile, but converting tohexaploidregains fertility. Suchhexaploidscan be crossed back with dips andtets. Flower size is greatly increased. Time will tell the out come. I am speaking at winter 2015 region 2 and 2015 national on this method.

Pollen and pod parents pedigree fromAHSdatabase.

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HI EVERYONE,

A NEWWRINKLE…IHAVE GIVEN MY SEEDLINGS (GARDEN NAMES) INPARENTHESES…onthe sales heading.IT IS JUST MORE FUN FOR ME!NONE ARE REGISTERED NAMES.If you have registered one under that name and want me to delete the use of it, let me know.

I hope you will have some fun buying some packets of BLACK, BEARDED, STREAKED, SPOTTED, BROKEN AND JUST PLAIN UNUSUAL SEEDS and winning a Stout Medal..or at least having the excitement of that first bloom.

BONUS SEEDS, OF COURSE! ….AND USUALLY AN EXTRA SEED OR 2 OF THECROSS…

I will be using my own photos when possible (of course, all seedlings will be my photos). Should I inadvertently put up a photo I have copied from the web and it is yours, let me know..I will give you credit or change it.

All seeds are 2019 seeds and will be shipped immediately after payment. Seeds vary in size and wrinkling, this does not affect their ability to germinate.

Seeds were air dried for 1-2 days, passed the "squeeze" test for viability and have been refrigerated for at least 2 weeks in zip sealed bags.

PAYPAL or CHECKSPayment to be received in 7 days, unless notified. Seeds will be mailed in bubble envelopes once payment is received. To combine wins just let me know. I must mail once a month..I have a tinyrefrigerator…Postageis $4 for the first win, with no additional charge for up to 10 wins, if won in a 4 week period and shipped together.

I will now be selling to the EU ($15 shipping and aphytosanitarycertificate for $37)….and CANADA($10 shipping)…PAYPAL only.

Judy fromSTARCROSSEDSEEDS