ROSELLA FLIGHT

Tropical Bird series
Mahieu Diploid
[NINA REBMEN X JENNIE LOVE]
36 EE 5 Re DOR 3X24 or better branching and budcount.

A rosella is a type of Australian parrot.  To my mind, this incredibly floriferous daylily resembles a flock taking flight.  A combination of Kraus' azalea pink NINA REBMEN with Stout's early H. f. rosea introduction JENNIE LOVE, this cultivar was, specifically, developed to have rhizomatous growth like H f Europa, but in a gorgeous rose pink with a green throat and great hybrid vigor and gardenability.  This seedling was the best of 89 siblings.  The color is a clear rose pink with a deep rose pink band on the petals.  Green to lemon chartreuse, dart throat pattern.  Radically Fertile both ways.
Excellent, weatherproof substance, rhizomatous growth habit for naturalizing meadows, banks, streamside plantings, mixed perennial borders. 

My use of H f rosea and it's progeny like JENNIE LOVE is due to Rosemary Whitacre's theory that H f rosea furnished the last part of the "spidering genes complex".  She seems to have been right -- as subsequent generations from these crosses have shown.


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ORCHID HUNTER
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STRATOVOLCANO
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SWAZILAND
TANGERINE IBIS
TANIMBAR COCKATOO
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