Still, it was the best season ever experienced at Adena Daylilies. The trying conditions revealed which plants were tough, determined performers and allowed evaluation to proceed over a group of 50,000 seedlings that bloomed this past summer. I hate to use the term 'break' when describing a daylily...perhaps, advancement is the better term. With that in mind, there were advancements in rebloom throughout all colors and both ploidys. If fact, our three introductions for this year feature rebloom as a strong trait, with all three offerings easily producing at least three rounds of scapes during the past harsh summer. Two of the new intros usually send up fours sets of scapes in a season here in our garden.
Our recent tet. introduction, PRELUDE TO PANOPLY is proving to be an even better parent than we thought it was, producing easily fertile, tall, strong, well branched, dormant seedlings in all colors. We've gotten rave reviews from Maine to Washington and states between about the stellar performance of PTP.
Here is an email from Margaret Dickson in Seattle, Washington about PTP...
I just wanted to let you know how pleased I am with Prelude to Panoply
and Toast and Jam which I received from you Spring of 2009. This has
been a year of really crazy weather. Among many other differences,
cultivars in general had lower than usual bud counts. I was especially
impressed with PTP as it now has 6 fans (great increase for here),
wonderful branching and a 26-30 bud count. And now there's a rebloom
scape coming; rebloom is a rarity around here. In spite of the reduced
bud counts this year it boasted the highest bud count in my garden. Fan
increase is generally much slower here than Richard has in his garden.
PTP was my most used cultivar in hybridizing this year! Do you have
some promising babies from it? Keep up the good work! I'll be watching
for you future intros.
We also bloomed some wonderful seedlings out of LUNAR EMPIRE and from our T06-01 (GREAT WHITE x JT DAVIS). Several of these are already on the road towards introduction.
Here is an email from Margaret Dickson in Seattle, Washington about PTP...
I just wanted to let you know how pleased I am with Prelude to Panoply
and Toast and Jam which I received from you Spring of 2009. This has
been a year of really crazy weather. Among many other differences,
cultivars in general had lower than usual bud counts. I was especially
impressed with PTP as it now has 6 fans (great increase for here),
wonderful branching and a 26-30 bud count. And now there's a rebloom
scape coming; rebloom is a rarity around here. In spite of the reduced
bud counts this year it boasted the highest bud count in my garden. Fan
increase is generally much slower here than Richard has in his garden.
PTP was my most used cultivar in hybridizing this year! Do you have
some promising babies from it? Keep up the good work! I'll be watching
for you future intros.
We also bloomed some wonderful seedlings out of LUNAR EMPIRE and from our T06-01 (GREAT WHITE x JT DAVIS). Several of these are already on the road towards introduction.
Many interesting seedlings were bloomed out of the Norris, Emmerich, Mason, Korth, Carpenter, Hanson and Kirchhoff lines, plus, quite a few other hybridizers were also represented among our selects at the end of the season.
We've managed to increase LUNAR EMPIRE enough to be able to offer it again this spring after selling out of it quickly last spring. There are at least 10 double fan plants available for $100 a plant, and believe, me, I think it's definitely worth the price.
We are also instituting a new procedure here at Adena Daylilies...we are going to give free shipping on all orders - BUT - we are generally not going to include bonus plants with orders. I've come to this decision after a lot of thought...most of my own introductions are in short supply (except for PRELUDE TO PANOPLY) and my very arthritic knees make digging and cleaning plants difficult, especially as I'm still in school during the months of April and May. I teach in a classroom with concrete floors (35 years now), and have to dig after school Friday nights to ship orders out on Saturday mornings. To say my knees are sore by the end of the week would be an understatement.
Adding bonus plants that may or may not be wanted by the buyer just seems superfluous...I'm not trying to short customers on value or service, rather, I'm trying to make it so that I can continue to provide good plants, new introductions and good service without causing myself too much discomfort through having to dig extra plants that the customer may not really want.
I can pretty much guarantee that customers will get good value for their dollars, as most plants that will be shipped out will be more than the advertised 2 fans.
We are also instituting a new procedure here at Adena Daylilies...we are going to give free shipping on all orders - BUT - we are generally not going to include bonus plants with orders. I've come to this decision after a lot of thought...most of my own introductions are in short supply (except for PRELUDE TO PANOPLY) and my very arthritic knees make digging and cleaning plants difficult, especially as I'm still in school during the months of April and May. I teach in a classroom with concrete floors (35 years now), and have to dig after school Friday nights to ship orders out on Saturday mornings. To say my knees are sore by the end of the week would be an understatement.
Adding bonus plants that may or may not be wanted by the buyer just seems superfluous...I'm not trying to short customers on value or service, rather, I'm trying to make it so that I can continue to provide good plants, new introductions and good service without causing myself too much discomfort through having to dig extra plants that the customer may not really want.
I can pretty much guarantee that customers will get good value for their dollars, as most plants that will be shipped out will be more than the advertised 2 fans.
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