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through talking with Ned, I discovered that the pollen parent ofLAVENDER HANDLEBARS was dormant PERSIAN PATTERN(Hardy 1966).In the meantime, I had bloomed seedlings from the cross ofWarrell’s creamy, curly seedling and GREEN TARANTULA (VIOLAPARKER X CLARENCE SIMON), a semi-evergreen by Parker 1970.I did not think that the daylily world needed another yellow daylily,but my dear husband liked it, and so I moved the pretty yellowgreenseedling to a sunny spot in one of the long landscape borders.Information gleaned from doing genetic research in the AHSregistration checklist stated that GREEN TARANTULA had comefrom the tender evergreen of the MacMillan lineage, and I assumedit would not survive our long cold winters. Each passing summergarden visitors would rave about the crispate green yellow seedlingthat was increasing like a bad weed. Instead of yelling: “But it’syellow!” In 2003 I took the advice of my husband and garden visitorsand registered it with AHS. This flower from both hardy andtender evergreen genes has proven to be a good grower from temperateAlabama to frozen Canada and is registered as a dormant.The name, SIMPLICITY IN MOTION, was chosen because that iswhat it is.LAVENDERHANDLEBARSImage: SharonFitzpatrickduced large fertile flowers with cascading petals. The remainderhad blooms that were star shaped and not meeting the AHS spidermeasurement requirement. In 2004 I registered this cascading, unusual-form,watermelon red seedling with AHS as FITZASAURUS(Fitzpatrick 2004). Did a fuzzy legged pollen bee get to that oneseed, or was it a clear-cut case of genetic roulette?FITZASAURUSSlide: SharonFitzpatrickI did the LAVENDER HANDLEBARS pollen dance with everythin-petaled flower in the garden that summer. LAVENDERHANDLEBARS crossed with the R. Ferris 1976 DALLAS STAR(DALLAS STAR came out of two Edna Spalding cultivars, JUBI-LEE PINK X RACHEL), and produced a dormant plant resultingfrom a double dose of evergreen Spalding genes combined withdormant Lambert and Hardy genes. Could this be another case ofgenetic roulette or luck of the draw? I registered this nine-inchspatulate lavender-blue flower in 2004 with AHS as COLD MOUN-TAIN.After receiving LAVENDER HANDLEBARS, my exciting clubguest plant, I set numerous pods on HOLLY DANCER with LAV-ENDER HANDLEBARS’ pollen. Since LAVENDER HANDLEBARSwas created from the inbred Lambert line, my gut feeling was tooutcross. HOLLY DANCER out of Frank and Peggy Childs’ breedingwas the mama as LAVENDER HANDLEBARS proved to be podsterile. Out of 28 well-branched and budded plants from my HOLLYDANCER X LAVENDER HANDLEBARS cross, only one plant pro-COLD MOUN-TAINImage: SharonFitzpatrickLAVENDER HANDLEBARS had a tendency to be nocturnal. If Idid not have time to hybridize in the morning, I would pick thebloom, put it in the fridge in water and use the pollen to hit everyopen flower in the evening. Much to my surprise the blooms hybridizedin the evening produced the highest number of seeds. Akeeper from my “twilight madness” hybridizing came from an interestingseedling, with the color of a mud pie, out of Brockington’s1990 COBURG FRIGHT WIG X Warrell seedling, which—I laterdiscovered—came from SO LOVELY (Lennington 1969) X YEL-LOW RIBBONS (Kraus 1954). Knowing that pink and lavenderflowers had the tendency to clarify, I crossed the mud pie withLAVENDER HANDLEBARS. Results from this Kraus, Hardy,Lennington, MacMillan, and Lambert gene pool produced a clearcolored, 9-inch dormant cultivar with a most unusual lavender, spatu-SIMPLICITY IN MOTION Image: Sharon Fitzpatrick Continued on page 20AHS Region 2/Great Lakes NewsletterSpring-Summer 2005 Page 5