wow! You'll have to post pics when they bloom! I'm still working on ID'ing an heirloom I picked up at the old homestead down in south Arkansas. Imagine something similar to "Baby Moon" but with 3-5 blooms per stalk, with the height being about 18-24 inches, and extremely fragrant. The petals aren't as round as Baby Moon. Looks a little more like a traditional daff with a short cup. Except the entire flower diameter is smaller than a dime! No pics right now. If anyone has any ideas...let me know! I hate not having a name on something! LOL! Daffs are some of my faves! HW

Labrea, I've never really seen Stanwell P-love the eye! Roseleaf, I couldn't believe I'd like a Buck rose really (have a few), but Prairie Sunrise is different. I looked it up on helpmefind. Of course, I LOVE RR, might get another! Randy, SdlM looks so wonderful...might look into it too. I only have 2 old garden varieties (Henry Nevard and Baron Girod d'Lain). Saw a RdV at local rose garden yesterday...your photo was much better than what I saw (see my post re: Everytime we go to the city rose garden) Msjam2, I forgot to ask you about MMagdalene. It looks a lot like Wedding Cake to me, the coloration etc. Does it often get this way (the kind of mottled pink on white?) I love it! :0) Phyl

Urgs, I just saw how huge the image was, sorry for that! @lily: I have no idea. Haweha commented my pictures on the german forum and wrote that he too had no idea who the ancestors could have been, the broad stakes are a trade of an big flowering cultivar. So perhaps they crossed a trumpet shaped specie with dutch cultivar? You might be able to find who crossed it. @Alana: Yes, I received seeds from Amputo x Sydney and Sydney x Amputo. I had so many flowers, there where 2 stakes with 3 blooms and 2 from one bulb with 4 each! I used this one for my crosses (even though it might just be a stronger clone from tissue cultivation), but I should have pollinated the other ones just to check what workes. I think I'll try to save pollen and try as much as possible. Ok, any suggestions ... finally: Amputo seems to be a Tetraploid regardless of it's fragrant looks. So it's a perfect candidate for a cross with a big-flowerig dutch hybrid. You should be able to preserve some of the colour scemes of the other parent. White flowers are often connected to a genetic defect where the plant's gene that transcribes pigments can't be read. So the other parent should be able to bring in some colours. What I'd like to try would be Grandeur, if anyone has pollen of these ... perhaps I should ask in another thread. ;)

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