Just though I would share this picture. I love hybridizing roses and about 4 years ago I decided to try my hand at daylilies. Last year when I planted these daylily seedlings next to a pot that contained what I call Little Orphan Annie (OP Francis Dubrieul) I had no idea what color the daylily blooms would be. This morning as I made my rounds checking on blooms to pollinate I discovered the first bloom on this daylily right next to a bloom on Little Orphan Annie. The colors of the rose and the daylily are almost identical. How cool is that?
[attachment 1621 PurplePair.JPG]
Joan, That is more than cool! Very nice side by side. Now for a bright butter yellow rose to match the throat of the daylily.
That’s one of the nicest, richest ‘reds’ I’ve seen yet. Congratulations!
Jackie, thanks, and believe me I have been working for several years on a nice butter yellow rose, one day…
Kim, both the day lily and the rose have a very rich color.
I splurged on some expensive Spacecoast Florida daylilies with the idea of crossing them with Stella D’Oro to see what happened…then I found out that diploids don’t cross with tetraploids so I gave up…
They sure are gorgeous, but maybe not hardy here. I’ve brought them in for the winter.
Nice colors on yours!
That color on both of them is pretty rich. I love the reds that begin to look blackish.
The spacecoast daylilies have amazing teeth on them. I would wonder at how hardy they are however. The nice thing about roses is that most triploids are fertile when compared to other plants. I have heard of a few triploids daylilies resulting in seedlings but it is very rare. Their is a tetraploid Stella D’Oro out there somewhere. I used to have it. It seems like that was a life time ago however. It was not as fertile as the diploid version, bloomed slightly less and the growth was more steroid user like than natural but that happens with converted plants.