shades of orange

these two opened today.  both are small plants and small flowers.  the flowers are in the three inch 7.62 cm range.  each year both of these plants are among the first to bloom.  one is an unknown orange that forms a simple star.  and the other a peach colored bloom is Stella’s Ruffled Fingers.  one blooms early and is done.  the other if it gets enough water and is not crowded out by its neighbors can bloom all summer and be among the last to finish blooming.  five images…

all summer

what do you call a flower that will bloom all summer?  the simple answer is a plant that should be in your garden.  here i call it Stella’s Ruffled Fingers.  it may be one of the shortest daylilies here and that does not stop it from being one of the longest blooming flowers.  it is one of the grandparents of last night’s flower.  three images…

going back

this is an image from the beginning of summer 2016.  it is a Stella’s Ruffled Fingers kid the second generation.  So it is seedling x seedling.  and it is spidery.  this year is the first that this seedling bloomed.  it did not rebloom.  perhaps next year.  that is one of the other hopes of these crosses.  that the seedlings rebloom like Stella’s Ruffled Fingers.  four images…

G2 Little Rainbow x Talon) x Stella’s Ruffled Fingers

G2 Little Rainbow x Talon) x Stella’s Ruffled Fingers

little lavender

i have been working with seedlings from Stella’s Ruffled Fingers for several years now.  slowly yet still working with them.  one of the hopes is to get them more spidery.  the other is to get them to rebloom like their parent.  one step at a time.  four images…

14-001 13-0702-002 Little Rainbow x Talon) x Stella’s Ruffled Fingers) x Stella’s Ruffled Fingers

G2 too

this will be continued.  and continued.  there are about a dozen siblings and cousins with Stella’s Ruffled Fingers or her children getting ready to bloom in the garden.  eventually they will make their way here.  unless they are named pete and repeat.  then i might just skip a few.  or not.  this one is a bit more spidery.  and all of them will most likely need a year to mature and rebloom.  the second year will be more telling of the final look and form.  this one started the day fairly straight and then picked up a bit of ruffles and twist.  they are small 3 – 4 inch 7.6 – 10.1 cm flowers.  several images…

 

G2 Little Rainbow x Talon) x Stella’s Ruffled Fingers

 

G2

as in generation two.  this is a seedling from the second generation from a cross of Little Rainbow x Talon) x Stella’s Ruffled Fingers.   the second generation cross was sibling to sibling.  i am trying to keep the plants small like Stella’s Ruffled Fingers and to bring back the rebloom that was lost in the first generation.  this one looks a lot like Stella including the bloom shape.   the color has changed from pink to a peach shade.  two images…

with

a yellow seedling with a pink blush.  it did not even wink at me and still caught my eye.  this is a seedling out of Stella’s Ruffled Fingers x (Little Rainbow x Talon).  Stella is pink, Little Rainbow is yellow with a lot of pink blush, and Talon while itself a dark flower often gives up its color to the other parents.  so what can be in the works to combine this flower with other small flowers of its size with pink and yellow in the color wheel ?  two images…