Ballalaika Music X Sunrise in Glory

The goal: tetraploid 3/4-breds with near-aril-like flowers on highly gardenable plants. The pod parent, Ballalaika Music, is an exceptionally easy-to-grow aril of known species ancestry, from Werckmeister's Beauty : (Bronze Beauty x (Teucros x I. susiana) X Dunshanbe: (Persian Pansy x I. korolkowii Brown & Green). It charts back to species in only four generations. Its sixteen great-great-grandparents are: four I. hoogiana, five I. korolkowii, two I. stolonifera, two I. nigricans, two I. susiana, and one I. iberica. Sunrise in Glory is a halfbred with good size and substance and the ability to produce a wide variety of intricate patterns.

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S. plum, flushed violet along the midrib.

F. plum, with violet in the center that is most intense in the signal area.

B. bronze

Ballalaika Music

Sunrise in Glory

This cross produced a diverse set of patterns, but after several evaluation cycles I narrowed the selection down to five and finally introduced three of them.

Classic Elegance

Daringly Different

Genuine Gemstones

Both 86-11-2 and 86-11-3 were worthy of introduction, considering the quality of the flower and the strength of the plants, and comparing them with the overall candidate pool for the class.

 

86-11-2

 

86-11-3

 

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