todays flowers

>Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:48:45 -0800 >To: daffnet >From: Harold Koopowitz >Subject: todays flowers >Bcc:  title= > >Here are two flowers that I photographed this morning. The crosses >were made about ten years ago and although they flower each year >increase has been excruciatingly slow. > >The one that looks like a 3Y-R is a miniature but often carries two >flowers that never seem to be open together. Wish i had this quality >in a spring blooming mini. > >The other is one of my favorites bred from Gloriosus x N. >viridiflorus and develops an apricot caste to the perianth. There >were only two seed but the other seedling has never flowered. > >Harold