Hybridizing irises: a world-renowned breeder of Japanese and Siberian irises shares the secrets of his success - Dr. Currier McEwen; includes sources
Flower & Garden Magazine, April-May, 1993 by Marian Gagnon
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Roses and the Hybridizing Hobby
Robert J. Dolezal ...
Hybridizing
You can make new roses by crossing one rose variety with another. Here's how:
1. Designate a pollen parent and a seed parent.
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Hybridizing has yielded such pollenless varieties as 'Lemon Aura', a lemon-yellow branching beauty. 'Go Bananas' is a mix of yellows. 'Infrared Mix' is an assortment of reds.
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Intense hybridizing has led to the plethora of petunias available today - and there are more varieties being developed each year.
The number of grasses that are cultivated for home gardens is always increasing through hybridizing and discovery. They are available in a wide range of height, spread, color, and flowering times.
Hybridizing takes the positive characteristics of two plants and combines them to produce a better plant. This may result in more disease resistance or a larger fruit.
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries saw the first work in hybridizing roses in the West (the Chinese had been at it for two thousand years already). Two hundred new strains of rose were developed between 1580 and 1710.
Breeding work with spinach began in earnest in the early part of the 20th century when breeders started selecting and hybridizing varieties with more disease resistance and those that would be slower to bolt (go to seed) in hot weather.
By a strange coincidence, so many of the species seem to have found their way to Hawaii where a lot of early hybridizing occurred. Bulletin 93 about Hibiscus in Ceylon in 1938 makes good comments.
Recent hybridizing has introduced several easy growing, readily available varieties. Hellebores have rose-like blossoms that are among the earliest flowers to bloom. In Zones 7 , H. orientalis can bloom outdoors at Christmas Time.
Many years of hybridizing has resulted in the wide palette of vibrantly coloured blooms we see today. The flowers are symmetrical with 2.5 to 5 cm blooms that form large clusters in the center of the plant.
More beautiful than you remember, far easier than you ever thought roses could be - today's Jackson & Perkins roses represent the best of 130 years of award-winning hybridizing.
It does not make pollen or set hips, therefore, it cannot be used in hybridizing. However, any rose that has managed to survive for perhaps millions of years, without the help of man, should be cherished as a 'rose treasure'.
Miniature roses first came into being in the early 1930s as an accidental result of rose hybridizing.
Document the two plants used in the hybridizing process by attaching a tag to the stem. List the seed parent first, and then the pollen parent.
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Our larger community is enriched by the many sub-communities following the seasons, hybridizing, and carrying forward traits and roots from an ancient time, that push deep into the social bedrock, and once secure, grow.
But in my own garden, I embrace a carpe diem philosophy and explore new tomato frontiers. They adapt so easily to hybridizing techniques that seed catalogues can only list a fraction of the hundreds of different sizes, shapes, ...
"They do not reproduce the parent plant, and the seeds must be purchased each year from the company hybridizing them. They are featured, along with beautiful pictures in most seed catalogs and are what most gardeners see each year." ...
Few perennials are as tough and versatile as daylilies (genus Hemerocallis), and even fewer offer daylilies' enormous range of color, shape, and growing characteristics. The ease of hybridizing daylilies is a major attraction for the enthusiast.
 See also: Hybrid, Plant, Flower, Bloom, Growing
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