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Planted last year, but did not bloom, so the first bloom was eagerly awaited and did not disappoint. This is a wonderful color, the bloom really shows up.

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JungleShadows said:OK here's the story of Sedum 'Sandy's Silver Crest'.

Sandy MacMherson had a nursery in OH that sold mainly semps but he did grow some sedums as well. Helen Payne and he were good friends and he shared this sedum sport with Helen. After growing it for several years she realized how outstanding it is and named it 'Sandy's Silver Crest'. It is a very peculiar plant in that it is not really variegated but once in a while along a stem, you will get a little portion that is white, maybe 8-10 leaves and then it starts growing green again. This one also crests and if you get the white phase and the crest phase to occur in sync you get this amazing looking sort of checkerboard cockscomb. This is one that Polly Bishop had and loved and I got a plant back from her before she passed.

It is obviously a reflexum type. I don't know of any commercial source for it but it's probably one that should be on the market as it's so unique.Kevin

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'7-Green' is an F1 hybrid variety with smooth leaves. Seeds saved from your crop will not come true.
DTM 36 days.
pH 6.5 to 7.5 (prefers at least 6).

DS Spring ASAP. DS late July-Sept for fall. It may over-winter.
Sow ½" deep. Sow 10 seeds per foot to harvest bunches of leaves.
For baby leaf, sow in a 2-4" band, ¾" apart, around 40 seeds/ft.

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Green Bibb type lettuce with a small, loose head.
Harvest baby leaves, large outer leaves or the whole cluster around 28 days.
Leaves are smooth, thick, crisp, tender and dark green. They bruise and spoil easily.
Creamy flavor.

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Lettuce is a cool season crop best grown in early spring or late fall. Keep uniformly moist and cool. All or most lettuce varieties are cold hardy. Some varieties are cold hardy down to 20 degrees F if hardened off gradually before transplanting out.

Most varieties prefer cool soil temperatures for germination, e.g. 68 degrees F or cooler. Germination will occur in soil as cold as 40 degrees F, just more slowly. Most varieties have poor germination in soil above 75 degrees F.

Mulch is advantageous and reduces mud splatter. Lettuce is suitable for starting and growing in containers and/or greenhouses.

Most lettuces can't stand any heat, but some varieties have been selected to have some warmth tolerance (like Romaine). Most will become bitter and then bolt.

However, it is easy to collect seed from lettuce that will "come true" to its parents, even if grown right next to other lettuce varieties. Lettuce does not cross-pollinate (or rather, that is very, very rare). Lettuce has "perfect flowers" (self-pollinating before they open). The anthers are fused and completely surround stigma and style.

Let the best plants bolt and go to seed. Protect the seed heads from rain to prevent fungus. When many seeds seem mature, shake the seed heads into a paper bag or pillowcase every few days to collect mature seeds. Or cut the whole plant down when around half of the seeds are mature, but stand it upright indoors and let more seeds mature and dry fully. "Dry" is key! Lettuce seed will remain pretty viable for three years if stored dry.

Expect approximately 850 seeds per gram (24,000 seeds per ounce).

Sow 1/8" deep indoors in flats or small cells 3-4 wks before transplanting, 68 degrees F or cooler. They'll emerge in 3-5 days. Lettuce is hardy to light frost. If sown 4 per inch in flats, prick out after around 2 weeks and grown them on for another 2 weeks in 3/4" to 1" cells.

Or direct sow as early as soil can be worked, 1 inch apart or 3-4 seeds every 8 inches. Thin to 8 inches.
Fall: direct sow ⅛ - ¼" deep as late as six weeks before your last average frost date. Re-sow every three weeks.


Main types of lettuce:

- Looseleaf (var. crispa) Early, fast growing. Non-heading. Good for baby leaves.

- Butterhead (Buttercrunch, Bibb or Boston). Loose head with smooth or slightly oily leaves. Tender and sweet but bruises and soils easily.

- Romaine (var.longfolia) Tall, dense upright head. Tolerates warmer days before bolting.

- Iceberg (var. capitata). Difficult to grow. Will form a compact round head if weather stays cool long enough and all stress is avoided.

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Raspberry Ring has been used extensively in the development of new cultivars. Used as seed parent 7 times, pollen parent 11 times. Descendants are listed at this DaffSeek site (6-4-13) - http://daffseek.org/query/quer...
Raspberry rimmed yellow corona front pure white petals.

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Flat tubular stems 3/8" wide and 12"-18" tall.
75-90 days to bloom.
Perennial Zones 4-9. Divide clumps every 3-4 years. Clumps expand slowly.
Allium tuberosum reseeds invasively if you don't deadhead them.
'New Belt' is larger and darker green than many other garlic chive varieties.

Culinary herb, or use for cut flowers. or bouquets.
Use fresh or dried, green or blanched - mild garlic flavor.

Sow indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Sow several per plug. Emerges in 7-14 days.
Thin to 3-4 per plug. Transplant clumps 6-8" apart (18" rows).

Or direct sow 1/4" deep, as soon as soil warms.
Sow 4-6 seeds every 6-8", or 1-2 seeds / inch.
Thin to 2-3 plants every 6-8".

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Used as pollen parent 3 times (AC3/2, Strawberry Creme, & Tropic Rim).
Provides a 'riot' of color'.
Coral-to-reddish pink shallow bowl shaped corona has some golden edge and fronts crystal white perianth segments.

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RHS description - 'Fl. rounded, 90 mm wide; perianth segments very broad, truncate, prominently mucronate, whitish yellow, spreading or slightly reflexed, overlapping two-thirds; inner segments equally broad, less prominently mucronate; corona broad, shallow, with shorter extra growths beneath, often split to base, with segments deeply bi-lobed, tightly frilled.' at
‘The Royal Horticultural Society Horticultural Database’, available at www.rhs.org.uk.
One vendor says the extremely ruffled cup looks almost double or triple. Very unusual. Sunproof.

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Resembles an improved 'Accent' (pollen parent) - of deeper color with a more widely expanded corona.
Award winner. Very color intensive. Called 'a dazzler'.

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Being both seed and pollen fertile, Passionale has been utilized in many crosses (21 times as seed parent, 15 times pollen parent. Extensive list of descendants may be viewed at this DaffSeek (6-4-13) site - http://daffseek.org/query/Desc...

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Used 4 times as seed parent in further daffodil developments.
This Grant Mitsch hybrid stands straight and lasts long.
The International Daffodil Register & Classified List at
www.rhs.org.uk lists 4 entries w/ this name. the others are division 1(2), and division 7.

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Source: SMG

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Used in daffodil creation projects as cultivar is both seed and pollen fertile. Used 17 times as seed, 8 times as pollen parent. An extensive list of descendants may be viewed at this DaffSeek site (6-4-13) - http://daffseek.org/query/Desc...
Corona coloration somewhat dependent on climatic conditions.

The International Daffodil Register & Classified List at www.rhs.org.uk lists two entries for Salome. The other one delineates a registered division 3 small cupped white petal daffodil bred by The Brodie of Brodie of Scotland w/ a first flowering note of around 1909. Seed parent of this entry was ‘Princess Mary’ while pollen parent was Engleheart red Poeticus sdlg.

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Excellent compact plant good in containers. The yellow trumpet base bleeds into the oh so white petals for a dramatic effect. Good subject to photograph.

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A prolific hybrid grey zucchini. Very uniform shape. Good resistance to mosaic viruses. A new variety from DP Seeds

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Described by vendors as 'ultimate of pristine perfection' and 'w/ luminous green eye' this cultivar is a blue ribbon winner. Bred by Guy Wilson the best white daffodil hybridizer in the last century.
RHS description - 'Fl. 95 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate in outline, blunt or truncate at apex, slightly mucronate, spreading, with midrib showing, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, a little inflexed, with margins wavy; corona shallow bowl-shaped, broad, ribbed, bluish white, with mouth even, rim crenate.' (www.rhs.org.uk)
Seed and pollen fertile- used in breeding crosses as seed 8 time, as pollen 16 times.

Forcible; once forced may be relocated to garden for bloom in subsequent seasons.

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A nice garden addition that perennializes well and makes a visual statement.
One of the later yel-reds to bloom. Petals described as golden amber yellow or primrose yellow.
Good for forcing. After force can be translocated to garden to bloom outside in subsequent years.

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I have not grown this one in 50 years. I tried it in southwest Virginia where it struggled. Flavor is excellent, I graduated to the hybrid Blondie which is much earlier and more productive in the mountains of southwest Virginia and has similar pods.

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Very pretty pods that have good flavor. Production is poor to fair.

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