My Seedlings

Over the summer a lot of my newly hybridized seedlings have finally bloomed!  How exciting!!  For those of you who aren't familiar with flowers or daylilies hybridizing is when you pollinate the flowers, pluck the seed pods, plants the seeds, and the flower that grows is a whole new daylily you created yourself!  I've been experimenting with hybridizing for about 5 summers now.  It's a lot of fun but a lot of hard work.  This summer I decided to pass on hybridizing just because I was so busy and the daylilies were late this year.  My seedlings aren't super spectacular but I think they are beautiful and they are my babies.  Here are some pictures of the seedling I created with my sister and father.

I love the golden edges on the pink flower!

 I love the edges on this one too! 

 My kitten Siti decided to photobomb this picture.

 The edges on this one stuck together and it looks really cool but I'm not sure if it'll do this with every bloom.  Probably just a one time thing but I love the colors and edges!

 This picture does not do this orange flower justice, it's so pretty!

 I love ones with alternating colored petals!  In our field of flowers we sell we only have two varieties like that.

I'm not sure if any of them are good enough to name yet but I plan on propagating them and hybridizing them to tweak them to make them special and different.  Some of them I really like but if I hybridize those with some other really nice ones I might make a flower I like even more!  This kinda stuff takes time and years and sometimes after a few years of work they bloom and look terrible.  In my first batch of seedling most of them are terrible looking.  There are only 5 out of 30 that are really nice.  I just don't have the heart to throw out any!  They are all special to me!