They are all beautiful. I don't know how you can pick a favorite, I picked several favorites. I still like the one near the end that looks like it has bumblebees on it. Thanks so much for posting all of this. Carolyn Craft -----Original Message----- From: Michael Mace <michaelcmace@gmail.com> To: pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> Sent: Mon, Sep 3, 2018 3:00 pm Subject: [pbs] Moraea hybrids update 2018, and a video tour Folks, If you're not interested in hybrids, move along fast to the next message. I've posted the highlights from my Moraea-hybridizing activity for the year. There were many new flowers, including some interesting color combinations and lots of streaks and dots. I'm also getting closer to a red flower, which is one of my big goals. https://growingcoolplants.blogspot.com/2018/09/… Growing these plants in raised beds (technically they're screenhouses) continues to be much more successful for me than pots. I'm up to six beds now (building one a year to hold the new seeds), and they're all performing well. I think the number of blooms in the first bed is starting to decline, and if that continues I'll probably re-dig it in a future summer. But even if they last just six years, it's a lot better than replanting every three years, which is what I had to do with pots. This year I made a video of the plants when they were at peak bloom. You'll see not just hybrids, but video of some of my favorite species, including the rich purple and blue M. gigandra, a bright orange selection of M. neopavonia sold by Gordon Summerfield, a couple of M. tripetala forms, and an unbelievably vivid magenta M. villosa. If you want to visit the growing beds on a bright breezy spring day, here's your chance: https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=gW6LzsVoPJg I am glad to share hybrid and species seeds for free if anyone's interested (drop me a note at my address above; do not reply to the list). I'll ask you to make a donation to the PBS so I'm not competing with the seed exchange. As always, I would love to get advice from any other growers or hybridizers. I'm an amateur experimenting more or less at random. And I'm on the lookout for some additional Moraea species that aren't in general cultivation. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. My wish list is here: https://growingcoolplants.blogspot.com/2016/05/… Thanks, Mike San Jose, CA _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…