So where have I been???? hybridizing of course!

Ok,  please don't scold me for not writing...because you will see via the following photos... that I have been in heaven.....:)

June was about the last time that I have had a free moment.  I kept up with weeding, until the blooms started... and now I am just coasting along.  Pollinating in every good weather day becomes a priority. It is all about the PODS!

So here are some babies I bloomed this year. Some are dolls, some are ODD or in your face and some are just future stars.... and you know it.

Hope you enjoy these.... email away if you have any questions!!
Claudia

TOTAL surprise !!!! (below)  Rock Candy x Happy Happy. Looks like a bi-color as well as the sepals are a different shade than the petals.  I am moving this  youngster to the "future" bed ... so he can go crazy!! This baby has pattern potential !

This was one of the DOLLS...(below) oh my ! such grace and beauty..in a perfect package. Each bloom looked like this and each bloom set a pod!! Join me in welcoming  Ava Gardner x Bluegrass Music !

Welcome Baby Viva..... another enchanting beauty. Thanks to William Marchants' Viva Glam Girl, I can enjoy this cutie out of Italian Kaleidoscope...my hero! :) IK added serrated edges and looping ruffles.

Breaking the Rules x Diane Rose ( Conway) An old Kirchhoff and a newer Conway produced this demure sweetheart (below) stole my heart early this season.  She will also be moved to a better bed this fall....so that she can grow to her hearts' content! Diane Rose has been a surprising parent for patterns and eyes. I am crediting the Tet. Lavender Blue Baby genes behind her.

Below- From a cross that I just dared to do....  I dared to cross the buxum Carol Todd with the frothy white edged Larry's Obsession. AND I got this rocking red vixen with bubbling white edge. It was love at first sight. She is a keeper... nicely fertile both ways... Yep.... keeper...

The garden name for this girl (below) is Gools Beauty.  She is out of The Great Goolsby x Cerise Beauty.  Wow on the charisma beauty scale. She just melted my heart!

Who would have thunk???   Patsy Cline x Get Jiggy    Has Patsy's shape
and Jiggy tweeked the color and gave it a shapely eye!    Loved it... !!

Another "out on a limb cross for me".... WHAT IF ???? I did this?? and I only had to wait 2 years to find out. haha   I am NOT disappointed:) Italian Kaleidoscope x  Gnashing of Teeth.... That thick bubbly edge will definitely pop teeth in the next generation.. Another 2 year wait!! .... this baby is loaded with pods... very fertile like his pod parent. That is what I like!

From a cross of Johnny Cash and one of my intros Queen's Guard I can see a pattern
emerging in future generations... I will hit this eye zone with patterns.. I attribute these breaking eye zones to Tet. Lavender Blue Baby. Will be interesting to see if the rebloom scape will show the pattern more. I am getting a lot of late rebloom scapes and I should have bloom into October..as long as they can stand the frosts.

Hope to post more seedlings in a day or two... ENJOY!!
Claudia