Name Pending A:     (T03-17) – [Curt Turner – 2007]

5.5”, 26”, dormant, M, tetraploid. Blazing hot orange-gold with a large red eye. From across the garden, NAME PENDING commands attention to itself like an inferno to its namesake. Much has been said of the heroics of large-city firefighters in recent years. This cultivar is named in honor of the everyday service and sacrifices of rural volunteers, ever vigilant and on-call, protecting homes and outbuildings in smaller communities across the continent.  From seed planted outdoors in northeastern Massachusetts in November, it is cold-hardy.  With its red stamens reflecting its eye, its hot orange-gold pistil echoing its throat and its red veins intensely radiating outward from the eye, Name Pending is the best of a long cross of Hot Jazz x Fooled Me that has covered several growing seasons.  Grown with neglect to date, it produced ten buds on two scapes in its 2006 first bloom season.  NAME PENDING is fertile both ways, has been selfed, out-crossed and sib-crossed extensively and its kids are eagerly anticipated.  For those interested while stock is building, a waiting list will reserve the 2007 pre-release price of $80, plus shipping applicable at the time of release. Provide me with your name, e-mail address and telephone # and I will be in touch at release time. Price subject to increase for those added to the list after 2007.

Name Pending B: (D03-117) – [Curt Turner - 2007]

3.25”, 31”, dormant, MLa, diploid. Exquisite beauty characterizes this cultivar which contemplates the fresh-aired open loveliness of the next Princess in marriage to the royal House of Windsor. Whether or not destined to live happily-ever-after in matrimony; this lady will turn hearts and heads whatever her future.  NAME PENDING is a near-white, cold-hardy self with features that beg for the spreading of a blanket on the ground in rapt contemplation of them: a lovely clear light-lavender eye with darker lavender veins within the eye that change to a light pumpkin-beige as they spread outwards towards a fine-translucent edge of the same color; a creamy light-yellow outer throat over an apple-green inner throat, and a slate-white midrib bisected vertically by the thinnest charcoal silken thread.  Medium green foliage sets off four-way branching and twenty buds in its 2006 first-year bloom season.  NAME PENDING is a commoner’s cross of (White Lemonade x U) X Seedling.  For those interested while stock is building, a waiting list will reserve the 2007 pre-release price of $100, plus shipping applicable at the time of release. Provide me with your name, e-mail address and telephone # and I will be in touch at release time.