DANCING SUMMERBIRD (KING-LAMONE 1999)

Nocturnal, Early Midseason - Midseason, DORMANT, Very Fragrant, 6.5in flowers, Unusual Form Spatulate Crispata DANCING SUMMERBIRD has vigorous increase after getting established. Straight and strong scapes rise up out of a lush, mounding leaf mound. Pod and pollen fertile but not always easy. Marc writes "I thought for a few years that DANCING SUMMERBIRD only produced top-branched scpaes until I left it undisturbed for two years in the rich, moisture-retentive soil of the nursery. The clump burst into bloom wih numerous 2 and 3-way branched scapes and bloomed en masse! The soft lilac-lavender colour is richer in cooler weather and may need some afternoon shade in areas of intense sunshine. The throat stays green in cooler climates and the colours stay clearer and fresher. The throat lightens to a charteuse yellow in 90F degree heat and the clear lavender colour lightens to a salmon-mauve with lavender influence. This one put me on the proverbial daylily map! This flower form captures everything that I've hoped for in crosses for the rare "Butterfly" crispation pattern. Rosemary Whitacre, upon reviewing watercolour sketches I made in the late 1980's referred to my "dream flower" as "The Butterfly". She made suggestions as to how to achieve this extreme spatulate form with both sepal and petal quilling at the base of the segments. Many crosses were made and ca. 10 years later this flower bloomed. It is one of many seedlings I have from GOLLIWOG x ASTERISK, nearly all of which are crispate in some fashion, but none of the others have this extreme spatulate form with very small closures (the distance across the junction of tepals, the heart of the flower) and good substance with the Butterfly Crispation pattern. Pollen is of questionable fertility, giving seedlings only with particular parents, pod fertility is good if treated as a nocturnal. double fan £ 55.00 FALL 2004 DELIVERY AVAILABLE back in frame