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1 CommentGot this sent to me. Don’t know which cultivar or species but if I were to guess I’d say ‘High Noon’. That Lutea hybrid cultivar has the ability to give some rebloom in some years.
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OF never makes good carpals at my house, so the method I used was to use OF as a pollen parent. Which means knowing a friend who lives somewhere where the season is much earlier than in my (quite late) area where I can get pollen, and then use it on earlier varieties.
You are right though; strong stems are the goal here, and in the long run I believe will be the ultimate goal of all work with the herbaceous hybrids, even if not all of our wonderful new varieties have them yet.
Bob