Dancing Like a Banshee - (awaiting registration approval) - Seedling 3.00 - An Unusual Form, 12.5" bloom, Early Season, on 39" high scape with 4 way branching and 28 buds. Mauve with red veins, burgundy eye, yellow green throat with white midrib. Semi evergreen, Diploid.
EIGHT FLYING CRANES, a 2017 Fall introduction. Seedling #11.00 is a Polymerous bloom 95% of the time, with a slight Spatulate, Unusual Form flower. The Pale Lemon Cream bloom has a pale pink halo and a pale green throat. It's a very flat form, being 7" across, on a 24" scape that's 3 way branched. It blooms Mid season, is Dormant and Diploid.
FLYING DRAGON IN A RED SKY - Seedling #28.98. It's a huge 10" Unusual Form bloom, up to 12" when not recurved, out of Passion's Promise. It's an intense red with an orange eye and yellow throat, white midribs and a light edge. Usually with quilled sepals. 26 " high, three way branching with 15 bud count. Very striking in the garden, it's never overlooked because of it's size and color. Throws up lots of scapes and has a long bloom season. Tetraploid. Semievergreen, blooms mid season thru August.
NIGHT SONG OF THE DRAGON - Seedling #12.15/14.1999 Name Pending - Extra large, 9" flower, 41" high, dark red/purple with veined petals that become more distinctive by the end of the day, looking like dots. Large yellow green throat with partial midrib, 24 bud count, four way branching. Rebloom. Tet. 20% Poly. Evergreen. Early mid season. Passion's Promise breeding. Changes with the sun and time of day.
PASSION'S MULBERRY MOON - (name pending) Seedling #30.14 - A very unusual shade of mulberry, with a blue/black eye, veins, and white midribs. It's a 5" bloom, 40" tall, 30 bud count on five way branching. The plant is in very high demand in the garden. It puts on a wonderful show, presenting a huge mound of bloom, starting in Mid season, thru August and continuing into September. Very hardy and vigorous, semi-evergreen. Very fertile both ways. Tetraploid.
TINY ANGEL IN A TUTU - Seedling 48.13/17.01 A tiny little 2.5" cream double, with raspberry red split eye, with a yellow green throat. Petals recurve and sepals usually do not. Diploid,
WHISPERING CELESTIAL SPARKLER, Seedling 14.01 is an Unusual Form, Spatulate, Double. It's petals are narrow and the extra petaloids are very narrow with ruffles and have irregular tips that look like sparklers. It's a very pale lavender flower, with a very large extended pale lemon throat. Blooms are about 5.5", with 17 buds, on 3 way branching. Scapes are 40" high. It blooms early to early mid, is usually Semi evergreen but went dormant when the temperature was -09 degrees this past winter with no snow.
WHISPERING FOUR WINDS - (name pending) - Seedling #3.13 Is a high percent polytepalous, 9", cool pink bloom with light yellow/green extended throat, white midribs and ruffles on the petals. Scape is 38" high with 22 buds on four way branching. Hardy semi-evergreen, vigorous, diploid.
WHISPERING LAVENDER AND LACE - (name pending) - Seedling #178.98 A cool light pink/ lavender with a white eye, pale yellow/green throat and white edge. It has a large, 6" blossom, it's 26" tall, has 19 buds on 3 way branching. Blooming Mid season well into August, it's vigorous, sending up lots of scapes for a great show of bloom. Hardy, Semi-evergreen, diploid.
WHISPERING PINK FLAMINGO - Seedling #24.98 - Unusual form, Crispate, 7" bloom, hot pink with blend from green-yellow to orange throat, light pink watermark, and white midrib. 40 " high, three way branched with 17 buds. It's a very vigorous, hardy plant, fertile, diploid, semi-evergreen and blooms Early-mid season.
WHISPERING WINGS OF AN ANGEL - Seedling 5.13, it bloomed for me in 2003 for the first time, another of those plants that sat in the seedling bed until I could get to it and put in the display garden to see what it could do. - It's a high percent, 99%, polytepalous plant that goes 5 x 5 about 50% of the time. It's one of those poly's that throws a 3 x 3 once a season just to bug me. The blooms are 6" on 3 way branched, 36" scapes. A Diploid, hardy Semi evergreen, and blooms Early mid season. Both pod and pollen fertile.
WHISPERING WOODLAND FAIRY - Seedling #11.14 - A very pale, clear, cool color of lavender, with a light lemon yellow throat and ruffled petals. It has 4" blooms, 36" high, with 29 buds on a well spaced, three way branched scape. This plant makes lovely, graceful mounds of color from Mid season thru August, and is a great garden favorite. It also has been a good parent for me, of Larry Young's Wow, seedling #178.98 (to be Whispering Lavender and Lace) and others in my pale lavender diploid line.
