There is nothing amateurish about these crosses. How beautiful. I'd love to grow Moraea where I currently live but I think the weather is too harsh. Thank you for sharing these. Lesley On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 8:41 PM Michael Mace via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Hi, gang. > > > > For about a decade I've been breeding Moraea hybrids. If you'd like to see > my favorite new flowers from spring 2021, there's a post on my blog here: > https://growingcoolplants.blogspot.com/2021/10/… > > > > There are some nice magenta and orange flowers, some with veins and spots, > and some flowers with intriguing multicolored eyes. I'm still trying and > failing to breed a truly red flower, but there are some nice brick-colored > ones. > > > > I think it's amazing how much genetic variety there is in this genus. So > far > I've been able to cross about 15 species in subgenus Vieusseuxia, which > includes the "Peacock" Moraea flowers. This year I had the first flowers > from hybrids with M. debilis, a tiny blue flower that produces dainty > little > hybrids. There are about 15 more Vieusseuxia species that I haven't been > able to try yet. If anyone has ideas on how to get seeds or pollen from > them, please let me know. > > > > For the record, I'm also doing my best to breed the species, but I also > like > having something new to look at each year. > > > > If anybody has any advice on how to manage a hybridization program, I'm all > ears. I'm not a trained botanist, so I'm mostly making it up as I go along. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mike > > San Jose, CA > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>