I’ve made a goodly number of crosses for white/red and white/orange trumpets. Using trumpets as both seed and pollen parents, I’ve crossed pinks, bicolor, whites, reverses etc. etc. using Jamie Radcliff’s wonderful ‘Lutana’ as both a seed and pollen parent.…
This is a photo of ‘Sunface’ a small INTERMEDIATE bred by Bob Spotts. Introduced several years back and oversold. Really jewel like and prolific. 58mm in diameter and about 7″ to 8″ in height. Perfectly in scale and an unusually…
The photo is of V96-168-4, now a Selection, which is a cross of ‘Twotees’ x ‘Cool Evening’. Both parents are, in my opinion, two of the tip-top Div. 11 W-P’s for exhibition. This seedling, also in my estimation, has a…
I pass this on not as fact but as what I’ve been told. Sid DuBose always said that white flecks/appendages on a corona rim meant that the flower carried the genes for doubling. I have never grown on a selfing…
The photo is of V03-50-1 a 3W-OOY. It is a backcross of Chehalem x Random Event. I have always been attracted to ‘Daviot’ 2W-OOY and flowers of that color. I find the dark corona and bright yellow rim a very…
Possibly an explanation is in order regarding the giant coins. I ran across the three giant coins mentioned by Kirby at a Magicians Supply Shop many years ago. I brought them to Jackson as a gag, a joke, to open…