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I have mentioned it a couple of times this season but I really like Narrows Big Boy , I have let it bush and branch out so it has many blooms about B sized instead of the AA size it could be . It looks fantastic planted next to HH Shogun . I will try to remember to give it the cut flower test this weekend . Very vigorous and I bet it could easily reach AA size with minimal disbudding and debranching , we are quite pleased .
I asked Marilyn Walton about the parentage of Big Boy and it is Narrows Tricia and an unknown pollen parent as I recall. That means it has genes of some superb show flowers behind it, specifically Hamari Accord I believe a Devon dahlia.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
My Narrows Big Boy made only a few rather ugly looking tubers , hope they keep
Anyone have experience with Fern Irene WL Y ?
I did not order any yellow WL last season but this summer some of our HH Tigress stock sported to yellow , I do not believe that I kept any of it but did enjoy a yellow presence mixed in with the other WL .The yellow Tigress Sport tended to burn on the tips at times however it may have been an ever so slightly larger bloom than Tigress.
I used the yellow sport in a hand cross that produced a few seeds as it seemed to make a very large amount of pollen if brought inside .
Fern Irene is about the largest waterlily around and would be a B sized flower. It is also a nice deep shade of yellow. I grew it many years ago before we were breeding WLs.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
I may give Fern a try ,
Thinking I had HH Sprite lined up in a trade but do not seem to remember with whom ?? Anyone ??
If only there had been the little " ADD TO CART " icon next to HH Summertime .
Any new rumors about the yellow WL Sandy Boley has been working on ?
Benny, I might have HH Sprite. I don't have my tuber list down here in Oregon with me. I did grow it last year and liked it a lot. I like the small flowers on long wiry stems for adding into the top of a bouquet.
I haven't grown Fern Irene, but I have it on order from FGL. I like the sound of "a nice deep shade of yellow". It can be so hard to tell from the photos.
The Boleys brought two of their new waterlilies to the Grays Harbor Show this summer. Sandia Luna is the yellow one, actually the tag said "14-Sandia Luna" so it is not ready for release yet. She's a sturdy gal, and as you can see bigger than the other WL's. Maybe Fern Irene is in her genes?
The other is Sandia Susan, in shades of orange.
Their older yellow, Sandia Joy, can be quite nice, but grows short with short stems. Makes sense to use it as a floater.
I remember you commenting before that you liked Sprite Noni , I would definatly give it a try , Sandia Joy is a pretty bloom but short plants and stems are not a virtue I desire in our WL program . The other two Sandia entries there look fantastic ! Great stuff Linda , I knew I could count on you
I also like Leo Jelito but do not want to buy up too many yellow WL as I will be first in line next year for HH Summertime ( unless Noni pushes me out of the way )
The Boleys told me that the yellow Sandia Joy(an excellent bedding dahlia) may be short, but that when crossed with normal sized plants, it produces taller plants and the seedlings were special(What does that mean?). They said at that time that it was their favorite seed parent for waterlilies. A few years later, they told me that their new favorite seed parent was the old timer(that PNW Gal loves and from which she has produced a winning seedling): Ruthie G. I dutifully collected a few seeds from Ruthie G. (it only makes a few seeds for me) and planted them. My seedlings were so unremarkable that I do not even remember culling the plants. No Ruthie G. seeds collected this year. Other people will obviously get different results. It would not surprise me if both of the new Boley seedlings are out of Ruthie G. Breeding waterlilies is much more difficult than breeding other types; as in the the old saying; it is like herding cats.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
Sandia Susan looks wonderful! I will definitely be waiting for both of those to be released! I have avoided the shorter yellow waterlilies too..they tend to get crowded out by their neighbors. I Am going to try to plant by height this year but it seems the plants do not always grow like their reputation says they will.
I grew Leo Jelito last year, and its nice but I had a lot of open centered ones, like maybe about 50%. I found I used HH Sprite a lot more often. I might give Leo another try this year though. I ended up with more yellow then any other color last year. I'm going to eliminate some of those. Customers liked the blushed yellows better then the solid ones. But I am defiitely i line for HH Summertime, Benny so deal with it!
I'm another Ruthie G fan, as well as a Janet Leigh fan. These two make loads of smallish flowers that are very useful for small table center-pieces, especially for summer parties and weddings. They may be small in size but they make lots and lots of nice flowers in soft colors that blend well with roses and other summer flowers. I think I collected some Ruthie G seeds this summer so I will see if I got any thing nice with the qualities I need.
Janet Leigh was a movie star and apparently a dahlia. I got it from Ralph Hellens who sent a bunch of Canadian flowers to me years ago. I believe he was the breeder although he usually had an R. in the name as in R. Mona. It has beautiful small waterlily flowers. It makes no seeds and that is why it is no longer in our garden.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
teddahlia wrote:The Boleys told me that the yellow Sandia Joy(an excellent bedding dahlia) may be short, but that when crossed with normal sized plants, it produces taller plants and the seedlings were special(What does that mean?). They said at that time that it was their favorite seed parent for waterlilies.
I may give Sandia Joy a shot then.
That's funny, that Ruthie G only makes a few seeds for you. I get lots of seeds from her.
Linda, after seeing your little beauty, I saved every seed I could find on her and I think I might have 2 packets of seeds. Maybe we should share them out and let everyone try them as long as we get half the tubers back :-)I'd love a soft pastel yellow little waterlily. Or a blushed white one. Did you hand pollinate or let the bees do it. MIne are all bee pollinated and she wasn't in a bed with other waterlilies, So I think her nearest neighbor was Chilson's Pride. Lots of others around though..and across from the "incurved cactus" bed. I ended up with so many left over plants I was just trying to maintain my stock by putting the extras into any gap.
This is the first year I have done any hand pollinating, so we'll see what comes of it. I gathered bee-pollinated seed as well. If I get any soft yellows, you'll be the first to know!
I had high hopes for the yellow sport that showed up on my Pam Howden at the end of the season, but it was just one flower, and did not age well, so I gave it up.
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
Benny101 posted this lovely about a year ago. I hope I'm not offending to bring up old stuff. The pic is gorgeous IMHO. I believe the yellow is AC Chicken Ranch? Would love to know what the accompanying variety is.
