HIGHLAND SUMMERBIRD
This seedling literally took my breath away. It
as everything I dreamt of in an extreme
spatulate forms. As many of my colleagues know, I have been breeding
for the extreme spatulate forms, with or without crispation patterns, for
many years now, and this huge flower (nearly 9inches) displayed everything
I have aimed for in this Unusual Form category: The flowers open nocturnally,
the colour is a pleasant lavender (I will get around to red and dark violet
one day) with a subtle, pale lemon ivory midrib, the throat is a soft chartreuse
blend that lightens during the day and the form is superbly flat, well-separated
at the junction of the tepals in the heart and the plants rebloomed well
about 4 weeks after the initial bloom period. Sweetly fragrant in warm,
humid weather, the flowers set seed easily and its pollen was moderately
fertile, by-passing the enigma of GOLLIWOG's pollen sterility.
I look forward to the day when this one will be
available for dissemination, as I feel certain that it will a valuable breeding
tool for this form.
Tallish at ca. 35inches, MID-MID Late, NOCT, VFragrant,
Rebloom (faithful), BC 13 - 15, top-branched in a cluster. When well-established,
it branches once on the side of the scapes.
