JT-2012119

Got this one today it's out of( Seedling JT-8068 X ABILENE TOM'S MAGIC). Seedling JT-8068 will be registered this year. Maybe at the 14th Spring Regional in Hattiesburg, Ms.. It will set a seed pod probably better than any other flower I own and is the pod parent of my best Double edges.

JT-2012122

Got this one today it's out of (ABILENE DR. TERESA BURTON X TRIBUTE TO LINDA).  Dr. Burton is my daughter and just as pretty as I am.  It's about 7 1/2 across. I should bloom about 50 more seedlings from this cross. TRIBUTE TO LINDA (Petit) is surely a tribute to a great lady who went to be with the Lord, far  too early. When I look at her flowers a feeling of utter incompetence succumbs me.

JT-7659

I got this bloom today on my JT-7659 seedling. I use this seedling a lot since it is the bluest thing I've gotten so far, in 8 years old of futility, it seems. I will bloom about 60 seedlings this year in my blue line. Many people say it will never happen and they just may be right. They also said I couldn't grow daylilies sitting in water, who knows. It comes mainly out of the blue Daylilies from Jack Carpenter, back crossing for about 10 years.. I use this seedling's pollen back on PALACE GARDEN BEAUTY and other seedlings of my blue line.  Lori Hankinson in Michigan is the only other person with this seedling. It will probably never be registered because it grows too slow for me. That could be because it is so hard dormant and I live on the coast in Mississippi. Be careful of blue Daylilies with blue foliage in the picture. In looking for true color go by the foliage more than the Daylily. If you have green foliage then it may look like the picture....Gotta Go...tom



JT-201279 (5.5 inches)

  Getting a lot of this type eye this year and have not figured out where it's coming from yet. Both parents are my own double edges. Haven't had time to go back past last years parents. As most know I may use just one double edge pollen parent all day.  If I get an outstanding new seedling I might collect it's pollen and  use it awhile. I find that I can't determine bud count or branching the first year. I have had both double once the plant gets established, maybe the third year. The reason I am improving in blogging is because I want to prove to Lee Pickles that a monkey can do this.

   Speaking of monkeys, I had an uncle on my Dads side that we kids  knew ONLY as Uncle Monkey. His over powering claim to fame was he could hold a knife with his toes, hold a stick with his toes on the other foot and whittle, I know we were amazed too.  The other unbelivable thing was by the time he was 10 years old he could blow a perfect smoke ring. These are the kind of things that would  make any family clan feel especially blessed. Now you know,  but we don't like to toot our horn too loud.

What is the difference in the two pictures (other than I was not as close on the second one, I am slower than my full speed dashing days).  Hint they are the exact same flower,of course round as a bagel.. PICTURE TAKEN ABOUT 10 SECONDS APART. A seedling I selected last week.. The sun was behind a cloud on the first and popped out on the second shot. I was taking the picture because it is from my XXXXXXX and I wanted to show the intense color. (This is not a sales commercial, XXXXXXX sells great on it's own). I Xed it's name out, because somebody would get their bowls in an uproar. When my Aunt Rachel use to get her bowls in an uproar back home, they made her leave town until she overed it. I digress a tad too easy.
 When you want to show true color sometimes the full sun is best especially on the bright colors. Blog hints: Never try and save an unfinished blog , Your chances of getting it back would be greater if you sent it to Bernie Madoff to keep an eye on it for you. Your chances would be better sending it to my cousin Skeeter. He stays in jail so much his mail box is in his cell. Skeeter will steal anything he can pick up and run with. If it's too heavy he will lay down and put his arm around  and claim it. When the sheriff does his yearly budget they include Sheeter's room and board. There should be anti-digressing pills. I'm not through but I am at the bottom of the page and I'm afraid these blog people might get their bowls in an uproar.......gotta go anyway....tom

JT-201241
Getting a lot of this color this year from all the blue things. We had a frog strangler of a rain last light. Got up this morning and Harley and Pearl were both in the boat with their life vest on. They are not very brave hearted, certainly don't live up to red neck dogs.. I think the older I get the older I'm getting. This morning I was sitting on the patio, just a swinging, we swing a lot down South, I was trying to call my doctor to change an appointment.  I hollered for Joyce that something was wrong with my phone. She came to me as a help-mate is supposed to and cleared my mind  that there was no way I was going to call a doctor with my camera. Their both black I need to paint one. That flower is pretty if I do say so. I love that color..It's about 9 months old and already getting into a Motherly way , seed pods..gotta go...tom



JT-201254
This flower is quite different than most of my double edges. ( I got 8 more DEs today). The edge is scalloped. That happens rarely. I hit something to make everything disappear and had to start over, one problem, I don't have a clue what I hit. I (with Joyce's help) decided to make the writing bigger. I totally amaze myself at how trainable I am (With Joyce's help) at blogging . My memory is so bad I'm like a goose, I wake up in a new world every day. She is very smart but lacking a bit in spotting suspect sources of information. My Mother warned her she could do better, but I told her my Mother has slight dementia, she believed me, that might have been the last time that happened...Gotta Go....tom 



JT-201267
I got this one today 5/2/2012 and 10 others. It comes from my TOM'S MAGIC. It's about 5 inches and 24 inches tall. Since I mostly do double edges that's about all I bloom. I crossed a purple to TRIBUTE TO LINDA , it has a lot of white. So far every seedling has been purple. I mostly wanted to see if I could get TTL's green edge on purple. No dice so far.  Bed time, gotta go.