I am not naming this Betty Lowry, I’m just telling the story of I got it on the label. So Jan Jeddeloh, a fellow Columbia Willamette Chapter NARGS member of mine, shares the same passion for Monkeyflowers as I do. She has been breeding a number of them that I am excited to distribute for her someday soon! She gave me this delightful little find, and on the tag it read ex Betty Lowry, so probably the name should be ex Jan Jeddeloh, ex Betty Lowry? Or maybe I should call it Mimulus ‘JJBL’
Either way, its a cool perennial with these ripe peachy/apricot tones on top of a lemon yellow base, at first I thought it might be related to the mysterious M. naindinus but it’s quite different, the foliage is more linear, spear shaped and the flowers have a very different, almost boxy sort of architecture.
It is in the appreciates some water but isn’t aquatic vein, so my guess is it has some more alpine lineage as those ones tend to like to dry out. Maybe one of the DNA researchers who is always renaming things will buy one and write me a nice letter after they have sequenced it thanking Jan and I for saving some super rare genetics?
I am not naming this Betty Lowry, I’m just telling the story of I got it on the label. So Jan Jeddeloh, a fellow Columbia Willamette Chapter NARGS member of mine, shares the same passion for Monkeyflowers as I do. She has been breeding a number of them that I am excited to distribute for her someday soon! She gave me this delightful little find, and on the tag it read ex Betty Lowry, so probably the name should be ex Jan Jeddeloh, ex Betty Lowry? Or maybe I should call it Mimulus ‘JJBL’
Either way, its a cool perennial with these ripe peachy/apricot tones on top of a lemon yellow base, at first I thought it might be related to the mysterious M. naindinus but it’s quite different, the foliage is more linear, spear shaped and the flowers have a very different, almost boxy sort of architecture.
It is in the appreciates some water but isn’t aquatic vein, so my guess is it has some more alpine lineage as those ones tend to like to dry out. Maybe one of the DNA researchers who is always renaming things will buy one and write me a nice letter after they have sequenced it thanking Jan and I for saving some super rare genetics?
