Beautiful Tiger

Howard 2024

(Spots Before My Eyes x Blame it on the Rain)

5.25”/32”; E,Sev,Tet, 4-way branching, 20 buds

Gold with crimson stripes, spots and streaks. Fertile both ways. One of the best plant habits in my broken color program. I am holding it for increase but wanted to get a name on it.

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Booga Booga!

Howard 2024

(Explosion in the Paint Factory x King Crab)

6.25”/36”; MLa, Dor, Tet

5 way branching, 25 buds, UFo crispate-cascade

Booga Booga is a phrase a childhood friend would use when playing hide and go seek, or some other activities that involved scaring his friends. I am not aware of any other meaning and apologize if it offends anyone. Sib to our previous intro, Pumpkinhead. Fertile both ways. Very nice branching on a later season orange-red unusual form. I held this one back and have a nice supply - so selling double fans.

$75

Embracing Glimmers

Howard 2024

(Vision Seeker x Nile Princess)

5.75”/32”; MRe, Sev, Tet

3 way branching, 14 buds

Bisque with a large medium red violet halo, matching picotee edge and a green throat. Fertile both ways. I love Mike Derrow’s Vision Seeker with its large red-purple eye. This is one of the best seedlings I have seen from it. It reinforces the idea that occasionally I do know what I am doing lol. Or at least Mike does. Pretty consistent rebloom.

What’s a glimmer? Coined by Deb Dana, a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in complex trauma, in her 2018 book “The Polyvagal Theory of Therapy"“, “glimmers“ refers to small moments when our biology is in a place of connection or regulation, which cues our nervous system to feel safe or calm.

“We’re not talking great, big, expansive experiences of joy or safety or connection,“ she says. “These are micro moments that begin to shape our system in very gentle ways.”

Glimmers can be found in different places and senses. Some examples include:

• In nature, admiring your garden or seeing stars in the sky.

• Noticing a stranger’s smile or the warmth of a loved one’s voice.

• Feeling comforted by furry friends.

• Unexpected church bells or your favorite song playing on the radio.

“You feel something happen inside,” Dana says. “There’s an energy that happens around a glimmer, and your brain then marks it as well.“

If you grow daylilies you have many opportunities to enjoy the positive energy of glimmers. I know that I could use a few more of these magic moments in my life.

$75

Kemo Sabe

Howard 2024

(Emperor’s Crocodile x Believe)

4.25”/25”, EM, Dor, Dip

3 way branching, 13 buds

Thistle with yellow throat, consistent raised segments of cristate tissue in throat, fertile both ways. Good increaser so I am able to offer double fans. The look is very appealing and consistent. Jamie Gossard’s Emporer’s Crocodile is the pod parent, and it has one of the best plant habits I have seen of this genre.

If you know from whence the name came from you are showing your age! From Wikipedia - “Kemo Sabe” is the term used by the fictional Native American sidekick Tonto as the Native American name for the Lone Ranger in the American television and radio program, The Lone Ranger. Derived from “gimoozaabi”, an Ojibwe and Potawatomi word that may mean ‘he/she looks out in secret‘, it has been occasionally translated as ‘trusty scout‘ (the first Long Ranger TV episode, 1949) or ‘faithful friend‘. I loved that show so many years ago…

$150

Serious Moonlight

Howard 2024

(Jellyroll Morton x Tet. Bonibrae the Freak)

7”/37”, MLa, Dor, Tet

3 way branching, 13 buds

Light yellow UFo cascade with a green throat. This is the first registration I am aware of from Tet Bonibrae the Freak. I like the height and the pleasing way the blooms cascade. I think it’s fertile both ways but to use it as most of my hybridizing is done when it blooms.

I like its name. It’s from a David Bowie song - Let’s Dance.

Let’s Dance

For Fear tonight is all

Let’s sway

You could look into my eyes

Let’s sway

Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight…

$100/SF

Unkempt

Howard  2024

(Man-eater x Tramps Like Us)

5.5”/30”, MLa, Dor, Tet

2 way branching, 14 buds

Indian red bitone with a darker halo, yellow green throat, and yellow toothy edge. This one sports some impressive fangs. Fertile both ways.

$100/SF

Werewolf of Wallingford

Howard 2024

(Bonibrae Sharkey x Heavenly New Frontiers)

6”/33”, MLa, Dor, Tet

2 way branching, 12 buds

Light peach sculpted cristate with teeth on all segments. Fertile both ways. Very cool. I accidentally sold a 4 fan clump to a visitor last year for $50. Sometimes I wonder…

$125/SF

You Make Me Wanna Shout

Howard 2024

(Everything is Connected x Vampire Lady)

5”/28”, La, Dor, Tet

3-way branching, 15 buds

Everything is Connected is a previous intro of ours - a cross of Ruffled Strawberry Parfait x Forestlake Briar Patch. Fertile both ways and a nice addition to the late garden. Very good toothy genetics. Who remembers the Isley Brothers?

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