Simple Perfection

This is (tentatively) Simple Perfection. She represents 6 years of patience, and she almost went up north to be deer food last fall. Glad I didn’t do that!

She is my first ever harvested daylily seed, and I did a direct sow, the only direct sow I have done. She spent 3 years in the old seedling bed, and then I moved her into her current location. She is also a self seed, from South Seas, which also produced Equal Opportunity, but in a different year. And as an aside, younger South Seas self seed are also maturing in the garden, from yet more years. I am liking what I am seeing from South Seas self seed!

South Seas has yet to produce a successful intentional cross. She may be saying I need to leave her alone !

I want to try one more South Seas pollen cross, to peach daylily, and one more cross from Pink Tirza pollen (which I expect to fail, because Pink Tirza is supposed to be a diploid). If those both fail, South Seas will retire as the most prolific self seeder in our garden, with many different children.

Here is a family pic, Simple Perfection in the front, South Seas in the back.

Here is South Seas today.