Cultivar Name: Heart Of Bravery
Seedling Number: EHSTB32
Bloom Diameter: 3”
Scape Height: 26”
Branches: 6
Bud Count: 28
Bloom Season: Early
Rebloom: YES
Color/Description: Light pink with darker rose band above green to chartreuse throat with scapes flushed slightly dark, showing strong rebloom.
Ploidy: Dip
Bloom Habit: Diurnal
Foliage: Dormant
Pod Parent: Endless Heart
Pollen Parent: Samwise The Brave
Year Bred: 2016
Rust Resistance: Unknown, bred after my rust screening program. Both parents are A+/5 year.
Fertile: Both ways
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Comments: Heart Of Bravery is a wonderful little rebloomer with marvelous branching, which is a thing not always seen in these small reblooming diploid lines. With Samwise The Brave as the pod parent, we know where the branching is coming from! This seedling has the best of both parents, with the branching of the pod parent and the coloring and stronger rebloom of the pollen parent. It is one of those rare cases where the traits you would want from each parent actually come through in the seedling. While the branching is a fantastic surprise, what is even better is that we see branching just as nice on the rebloom scapes (see the images below, where the second, third and fourth images are of rebloom from October 2024). I typically see two to three rounds of rebloom in my garden - one immediately after the first round and sometimes a second one on top of that, and as well as an early fall round every year since first flower. While the pollen parent reblooms this well, the pod parent Samwise The Brave has not been a consistent rebloomer for me in my area, though it is in more southern gardens, but it does carry the genes for rebloom, and here we see them combine with the compatible genes coming from the pollen parent to give us an exciting and exemplary result. With high bud count, you get a lot of the beautiful little flowers over a long season.
The flowers start the day as a rich pink with red band and green to chartreuse throat (picture above and first picture below). By late evening the flower is a soft pink with a darker pink band (the third picture below), and while it doesn't show up well in the third photo below due to over-exposure from sunlight, the green remains in the throat all day. The plant is attractive, grows quickly and is vigorous. It is also fertile both ways and should be a boon to any diploid program seeking to work on rebloom. As an added bonus, the scapes show a slight flush of dark coloring, coming from grandparent Army Of Darkness, and indicates that Heart Of Bravery carries the dark scape genetic factors and can work very nicely in producing dark scaped plants with great branching in anthocyanin colors such as pink, red or purple/lavender. The base coloring of the flower is melon-based, with the lycopene mutation that removes yellow (carotenoid) pigment, so you can produce a range of bright, clear colors in its seedlings. It represents advancements in breeding for this style of diploid on several levels.
