Bonnie's Little Green Men.

I will show an older photo of John's MDB which opened today. It is darker when it first opens. I hope that he got a picture of the darker phase. It lightens to this shade.

whoops forgot to post. it is later at night here.

I have about 10 crosses in one-gal pots. From last season's efforts.
All are doing well, but one cross has the most successes.
Is this a good time to separate them out (line them out?)
Or should I wait until later in the season? One of the pots has
7 vigorous seedlings. Three pots have just one each. (One has just emerged in the last week!)

Hi Jan, I am not an expert and I have only done this once. I removed my seedlings from their pot and into a garden bed about 13 months after the seeds were collected from the seed pod. The youngest seedling sent up it's first shoot about 5 and a half months prior. I took the following photo on that day. All of my seedlings settled in well.

need time for them to grow the good roots.

Thanks, Robin and Lucy!

The pot of Gracieuse x Gracieuse has sprouted after putting the whole pot back in the fridge for a month and taking it back out again.

Which leads me to the question = what happens when you cross a cultivar with itself??

Can be good, or not. Depends which traits show up--It can double on good or bad traits.

janwax said:Which leads me to the question = what happens when you cross a cultivar with itself??

I was wondering the same thing!

Thank you, Lucy, !

The Gracieuse is in the neighbor's garden. They always give me their seeds at the end of the summer. I crossed their flowers.

Got back from the road today and had a couple 17 month old seedlings blooming.
First one was a bee pod from Slovak Prince... Looks like Lent A. Williamson is the probable father.


The other one blooming was a cross of Sorbonne X Cheap Frills


Interesting and frilly.

They are both great irises!