outline

dark petals and a light outline…

one of the oldest

and still a favorite. Cerulean Star…

don’t do that !

those two flowers cannot be put together. or so they say. Nutmeg Elf is a small flower only 3 inches 8 cm. Suzy Cream Cheese is a 7 inch 18 cm flower. then again if the new flower moves you, who cares ? the resulting seedling is the last image…

Nutmeg Elf

Suzy Cream Cheese

seedling

keep stirring

somethings get better when they are gently stirred and allowed to simmer. the first image is South Seas. the colors in this one continue to fascinate me. the rest well they contain fragments of South Seas. children, grandchildren, and farther down the line. i wonder what would happen if South Seas back into some of them ? keep stirring…

Godzilla’s Winsome Atomic Smile

once the smoke clears from tokyo consideration needs to be given to its next cross…

time flies

working in the yard today and it was time to check the early daylily for signs of a flower scape. i must be getting old or something. there were scapes. and the plan up front gets more sun and is sheltered by the bricks of the porch and steps well there were two flowers open. the orange one is from last summer. the yellow one is the early bloomer…

red purple

doing what it is supposed to do…

poly

yesterday’s flower was a poly. that is extra petals. and so is today’s flower…

big purple

this one stands at eye level and has a bloom the size of a dinner plate…

sibs

there are 5 or 6 siblings to this one. they are each some shade of purple. and some of them have a pattern thing going on in the eyezone. this summer the task is to see who does what and how often that what happens. or does not happen. considering most of the flowers that do this tend to be very fickle i am going to try not to get my hopes up too much. it will be a game of wait and see…