The rest of my SDB crosses that bloomed this year weren't too much to write home about, I tossed almost all of them but I kept a small handful.
These also have 09D-01b in their parentage but, on the whole, weren't as interesting as the previous cross. I just kept two, the first one mostly because it had such great branching (two branches plus the terminal, 3 or 4 buds) and second because of the veining in the flower. Not really impressed with the color on either one, but maybe they'll improve next year or I can put them to some use.
11D-01e
11D01g
Don't know if it shows up in the picture well, but the blue markings on this seedling are a shade of turquoise. I kept it and crossed it to Paul Black's 'Bombay Sapphire'. We'll see if anything interesting comes of that.
11D-03e
The last ones are from a cross of 'Forever Blue' and 'Bluebeard's Ghost', two SDBs, but every single seedling had IB sized flowers on IB height bloom stalks with IB-type branching (two branches plus the terminal and 6-8 buds per stalk) and IB looking foliage. They even bloom when you would expect an IB to bloom, between the SBDs and TBs. Weird. All were white or light blue with white or light blue beards. I kept two seedlings out of the cross, mostly just to see if I can use them to create more traditional IBs by crossing them with TBs since they bloom into the early part of the TB season and I don't enjoy storing pollen.
10D-01g
10D-01c
I really like the form on "g", its standards are open but very strong.
That's it for the SDB seedlings this year, the rest of my crosses are going to be mulch, but the TB seedlings are starting up so with any luck there'll be some more pictures to show.
