Day: November 16, 2013

More Autumn Flowers

The first photo is of  two more from Bill Welch’s “Autumn Colors Group’. Nice clean flowers with brightly colored cups.                 This was a white tazetta of Bill’s that I also selected. These…

John Hunters seedling bed.

So that’s what a professional seedling bed looks like!  I wished I could have spent more time with John Hunter, but my wife planned to see everything on the North and South Island in 3 1/2 weeks.  We saw more…

Edgedin Gold & Picotee Types

The Miniature picotee flower of ‘Edgedin Gold’ came from a large number of ‘Baby Moon’ seed open pollinated. The seed was planted in 1989. I’ve never been pleased with the consistency of the picotee edge with the clone selected for…