Welded Dragon
Name: Welded Dragon
Seedling Number: WTTSDD39
Bloom Diameter: 7”
Scape Height: 31”
Branches: 4
Bud Count: 22
Bloom Season: ML
Rebloom: Yes
Color/Description: Bright canary yellow with slightly darker golden band fading to creamy yellow with wide radiant golden yellow throat.
Ploidy: Tet
Bloom Habit: Diurnal
Foliage: Dorm
Pod Parent: Welding The Titanic
Pollen Parent: Stardust Dragon
Year Bred: 2013
Rust Resistance: A+/3 Years
Fertile: Pollen is always good. Pods are variable, possible with persistence.
Welded Dragon is a gorgeous flower with very reliable performance and a beautiful display in the garden. Rust resistance screened for the last three years of my program, Welded Dragon also shows moderately high thrips resistance and good late freeze tolerance. The plant is attractive and there is regular rebloom in my garden every year, often two rounds of rebloom extending quite far into fall.
Welded Dragon is shorter than I like, but many of you keep telling me that you like the shorter ones, and so I am introducing the best of my shorter seedlings, even though they are not the direction I am working toward (though I have bred from a good number of the shorter ones...). I hope the short ones go out and benefit programs working on shorter plants!
The flower of Welded Dragon starts yellow, sometimes with a slight golden-yellow band and a crinkled to slightly toothy edge. By the end of the day the flower is a light creamy yellow with a rich golden-yellow throat. The shape of the flower is always attractive.
While the pods are very difficult, the pollen is good and I have made a few crosses with Welded Dragon in testing it for fertility and breeding ability and it has produced bigger edges, more toothiness and very interesting shapes in the unusual form direction.
Below you will find multiple pictures of Welded Dragon from 2016 through 2021, first in the seedling bed and then in the line out garden. Click on any image below to see a large image and easily look through all the images in a photo gallery.
