SOMETHING WONDERFUL (Salter 1993)
Jeff Salter's SOMETHING WONDERFUL is a superb, vigorous garden plant and a tremendous parent. It has been a widely used parent by breeders, and continues to give me exciting results. I've found it useful for producing ruffles, edges, and wide-petalled flat form. My best success has been using it with pinks and lavenders.
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WILD ANGEL
Wild Angel is a strong lavender-pink bitone with wide segments and gold filigree. It's a cross of Strange Interlude X Something Wonderful. Strange Interlude is a dormant, eyed light purple hybrid of mine out of El Bandito X Elizabeth's Magic. Wild Angel is fertile both ways and it has been a superb parent, producing exciting results in cream, pink, lavender, and magenta. It has a well-branched scape with 21 buds. Wild Angel will be available for sale in 2005 @ $125.
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PEARLFISHER PINK X SOMETHING WONDERFUL
This daylily has been a favorite of mine and of garden visitors for several seasons. It grows 35" tall, is early-midseason with 5.5" pale cream-pink flowers. The flower has a lavender-pink halo that is more pronounced in cool weather. It makes small plants, is fragrant, an EMO, and has 23 buds. This will be named and available for sale in 2005 @ $75.
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SOMETHING WONDERFUL X LIN WRIGHT
I had quite a few seedlings bloom from this cross. Like the two pictured, they showed strong eyezones or halos. They bloom midseason and have fair to good branching, the light colored flower pictured has 28 buds. I'm eager to see the seedlings out of this cross with kids from Wild Angel and my (Flying Carpet X Twilight In Tangiers) line.
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SOMETHING WONDERFUL X AWFUL BUT WORTH IT
This is a beautiful, large flower that has the Something Wonderful form and ruffling on tall scapes. The pollen parent is a dormant hybrid of mine, not named for introduction, but because I breed with it. Its parents are Sultry X (Season's Greetings x Shishedo). It's a large yellow-pink blend with very wide segments and lots of ruffles, bud count is low however. I gave it the name I did because it seldom opens fully, but when it does it's super. I feel it's worth keeping through all of the awful blooms to have an occasional pretty one!
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