Monthly Archives: January 2011

FORTUNE’S DEAREST Part 4 Mort Morss on the Daylily Teeth Blog

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Mike

GRACEFUL BROOK, Gerda Brooker Here is the complete cross of FORTUNE’SDEAREST. (Mort’s Magic x Sib to Mort’s Magic F2) x (Cool Jazz x Dream Express)  DREAM EXPRESS is ((Zinfandel × Ming Porcelain) × Fantasy Finish)   DREAM EXPRESS, Evergreen, Kirchoff, Photo … Continue reading →

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FORTUNE’S DEAREST Part 3 Mort Morss on the Daylily Teeth Blog

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Mike

Iwanna Piranha, John Kinnebrew Did you know that FORTUNE’S DEAREST has doubling in the background? I didn’t until I looked further into the background. The first half of the second seedling in FOTUNE’S DEAREST is COOL JAZZ.  So we now … Continue reading →

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FORTUNE’S DEAREST Part 2 Mort Morss on the Daylily Teeth Blog

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Mike

Randy Stephens John Kinnebrew Mort Morss recently revealed to me that the cross that FORTUNE’S DEAREST was derived from came from a cross that produced 5 seeds.  The startling revelation was that he had a vision of this daylily before … Continue reading →

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FORTUNE’S DEAREST, Mort Morss on the daylily teeth blog

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Mike

It was the white teeth on this grape purple daylily that fascinated many daylily hybridizers.  What were the possibilities? As we’ve found out; Many! FORTUNES DEAREST (image by David Kirchoff, Daylilyworld) has become the inverted pyramid of white teeth daylilies … Continue reading →

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John Kulpa Seedling, Bass Gibson offspring on the Daylily Teeth Blog

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Mike

John Kulpa offered to share his fine example of offspring out of a first generation BASS GIBSON cross. John does not know the pollen parent. I bet it was purple, Duh… , no kidding! I’ve never seen a first generation BASS … Continue reading →

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John Kulpa Daylily Teeth Seedling, Heavenly Pink Fang offspring

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Mike

 John Kulpa sent over this image of a Heavenly Pink Fang seedling. The daylilies petals have nice saturation complemented by teeth on the sepals. Nice work John! Tomorrow an extradorinary first generation daylily cross from BASS GIBSON. It might be the finest … Continue reading →

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Malcolm Brooker Jr. Seedling , Daylily Teeth Blog

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Mike

Gerda Brooker sent over this daylily seedling image from her sons seedling bed. It is out of MALCOLM DAVID BROOKER SR.  I didn’t get the full cross but it is interesting that it has a rose color to it. Nice work … Continue reading →

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Southern Bred purple teeth daylily seedling

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Mike
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Mike Darrow seedlings, Daylily Teeth Blog

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Mike

Hi Mike, I’ve been following your TEETH blog for several weeks now…really enjoying your posts – nice history of teeth – and the discussion… There are a few other sources of teeth that some of the group might like to … Continue reading →

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WIDE AWAKE, by Dave Mussar on the daylily teeth blog

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Mike

Wide Awake Wide Awake was the last of Brother Charles’ cultivars to be released by Song Sparrow and may be the pinnacle of his hybridizing efforts.  In time I suspect that Wide Awake may rival Ruffled Strawberry Parfait for its … Continue reading →

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Heavenly Pastel, Brother Charles Reckamp, on the daylily teeth blog

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Mike

Heavenly Pastel  Heavenly Pastel (Reckamp-Klehm, 1993)is a Reckamp cultivar that few people know that I believe has good potential for toothy breeding.  This one bears a 1993 seedling number (BC93-39) so it presumably bloomed and was selected before Ruffled Strawberry … Continue reading →

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More images: Lady Stephanie Victoria Redding and Wild Hair

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Mike

Photos used with permission, Dave Mussar

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