Geum urbanum X Geum 'Flames of Passion'

In 2012, I put pollen from Geum 'Flames of Passion' onto Geum urbanum a weedy tiny flowered "herb" commonly known as clove-root. I mostly was hoping to put a little diversity into my little population of Geum urbanum. Some things I'm looking to select for are bigger flowers, bright reds oranges and yellows, and any improvements in the "clove-scented-ness" of the roots. I know it's a long shot, but I was also hoping that maybe one of these guys would get genetically confused and make the clove scent in its foliage or flowers. We'll see...
Here's the tidy foliage of the row of seedlings:

Here's the first hybrid seedling to bloom, compared with the tiny yellow flower of Geum urbanum below it: 

Here's a more extreme close-up of that first to bloom: 

Some purple-based iris seedlings

Here are four of the darkest bottomed iris seedlings I got from 'American Sweetheart' X ('Honky Tonk Blues' x Iris aphylla 'Balascuta'). The second picture shows the second seedling from the left, up close with my hand for scale. My plan is to interbreed these and see how much we can increase the expression of the dark bases.

 

Viola arvensis X Pansy hybrids

Here are the Viola arvensis hybrids (from Pansy pollen) recovering from some rabbit grazing...
top ones are from Orange Pansy, bottom are from Red Pansy.

 

Iris purpureobractea hybrid

Trying something new (for me)... posting a picture from my phone...

It's one of my better purple-foliaged irises from Iris purpureobractea. Not the prettiest flowers but the foliage is what I've been focusing on.
Well, the phone picture didn't make it but I'm back to post the picture the usual way...

 

And here's a second good one:

 

And a third, not so purple at the bases but got more of the purple bracts around the flowerbuds: 

 

Viola arvensis X Pansy hybrids again

Viola arvensis X Orange Pansy:

 

 and close up of flower:

 

 Viola arvensis X Red Pansy:

 

 and close up of flower:

 

 and a reminder of just how small Viola arvensis is in comparison... here's a flower of Viola arvensis next to a flower from that purple edged F1 from Red Pansy pollen. The whole Viola arvensis flower could fit on just one of the petals of the hybrid.

 

Even so, the F1 flower could fit on just one petal of a typical pansy. The size is definitely intermediate between the two parents.

 

 

Some irises before bloom...

Here's a classic example of why Iris aphylla contributes such branching to its descendants. This is either Iris aphylla 'Wine Red' or Iris aphylla 'Transylvania Native' - I'll be sure of which when the blooms open. Note also the nice purple spathes around the flower buds.

 

 Here are four of my best seedlings for purple foliage bases. Still have a long way to go to get all purple...

 

The variegated form of Iris pallida that is always catching people's eye. 

Viola arvensis hybrids

First picture shows a single flower of an F1 Viola arvensis X Red Pansy. To the left of that Johnny-Jump-Up sized flower is a normal Viola arvensis flower for size comparison. There are two more normal Viola arvensis flowers at the right and left edges of the picture. I've pulled these non-hybrid seedlings out now. These F1 are those ones I posted about back in the winter surviving minus 2 degrees Fahrenheit with no snow cover. Notice the flowerbud in the lower left part of the picture looks like it'll have a little purple edging maybe.

 

The F1 seedlings ofViola arvensis X Orange Pansy have buds not quite open yet. They should all be yellow-flowered if it goes like the same cross I did years ago.