Okay, here's a good spot.
>> It's all the way out in the middle.
>> All the way out in the middle.
It's way out there.
>> [LAUGH] Did you bring any of your extra rubber boots?
You know what, forget it. >> We don't have any
water moccasins in this part of the country.
>> I don't care.
Let's go for it.
Can you imagine living
with water moccasins?
I would freak out.
>> I can.
>> I don't mind snakes at all but water moccasin?
>> We don't worry about that.
>> Wow, this thing is a beauty.
>> Yeah, this is the deepest red of any tropical lily that I know of.
>> It's stunning.
I would say that's a red, as compared to the last one we shot.
>> And they call it the red flare because it flares out so far.
>> It is.
>> This is- >> I'm gonna take a picture,
keep talking.
Tell me some more stuff.
>> This plant goes way back.
It's probably in the 1930s.
>> Really?
>> And the reason that you don't see it is because it's temperamental.
We're trying to- >> To temperature, or to?
>> To temperature.
It likes a lot of heat.
It doesn't winter over very easily.
>> It's got a good fragrance.
>> But it's such a gorgeous lily.
>> Oh, my gosh.
>> We had to have it, and we have to grow it.
We will be offering it for sale, but we'll be offering it as a specimen
plant because if we're gonna take all that trouble
to get it up to a gallon size, we're gonna get it up to a bigger size.
>> Right from the get go,
it's already gonna be one of the 16 by sevens?
>> Yeah, it's gonna be a specimen.
>> What would this plant sell for?
The other one was around 50 bucks.
>> Yeah, in the gallon and in a specimen pot, specimen sized plant,
it would probably be $120.
>> Okay.
I think this one's a little more red in the leaf but
it's mottled a little bit different, too.
>> It is definitely more red.
>> And the Maroon, was it Maroon Beauty that we did?
>> Yeah, Maroon Beauty.
>> It was kinda green in the middle and
then that stuff was coming out but this one's got different.
>> Still has the strong venation on the back and the serration but
it's a deeper red.
Not only a deeper red flower, a deeper red leaf,
just as I was saying, it tends to be that way.
>> Is this a hybrid?
>> It is a hybrid.
>> Okay, but 30s, I'm thinking, are they hybreeding?
>> 1938, this was done by Martin Randig and it came off of.
>> I never heard Martin's name.
I've gotta remember this name, right?
I mean, 1930s.
>> Yeah, 1938. >> He's one of the grandfathers?
>> Yeah, one of the premier hybridisers.
He came before Kurt Strom and Perry Slocum.
And so this is the deepest red.
It's the best red, as far as I'm concerned, but
it is a little temperamental as far as the heat that it requires and
overwintering, and so you don't really see it on the market.
>> Is it because it's not doing well?
I don't wanna keep people from getting this plant cuz I'm amazed
by it right now.
I want people to get it but how can someone put this in, say,
even in Southern California, where I'm at?
How we can put it out there and make it do well?
>> It does great in the summer, it may not over winter as well.
>> Okay.
So, just buy it as a specimen.
I'm sure you're not the only person in America that does this plant, so
if they're buying this from someone else, it's a one gallon pot.
They've gotta get it up immediately, right?
>> Yes, I would.
>> Okay, wow this is really fantastic.
>> The bigger you get it, the better it's gonna do.
>> So right now, this is about, I don't know, a four foot diameter.
How many plants are here?
>> Do you what me to pick it up?
>> Yeah. Is it in a bigger pot already?
>> No, this is still in a one gallon.
Actually, this is a separate plant next
to it but that's what size it is.
>> It's a great plant.
>> And you can see, it's got a new bloom coming, and
it's got a bud after that.
>> Right.
>> So even in a gallon pot, what we call a lily gallon,
it's pretty good sized.
You can see the spread.
>> If you're only going to have this as an annual, and
I would treat this as an annual, a lot of my clients are buying plants
and would treat it as an annual.
People would spend a couple hundred bucks on just pretty flowers for
summer in front of their place.
So I try and tell that to people when they're doing that for
water lilies.
Treat it as an annual, get it in a big pot, fertilize it and
just be amazed by it all summer long.
>> And in southern California, there's a good chance this
would winter over, once you got it to a big size.
If you're starting out with just a tuber in the spring,
that would be more difficult for the average customer.
>> What's the name I'm not supposed to forget, Martin who?
>> Randig.
>> Randig. Martin Randig.
Love that guy. I'm gonna look him
up when I get home.
Take me to another red.
Do you have another one?
>> We do have another one.
>> What's this one called?
>> It's called Red Cup, and it's actually a seedling of Red Flare.
Lead me to it.
>> Okay.
It is in another greenhouse.
>> All right, let's go.
Do we have to walk out in the middle of this one too?
>> We don't have to walk out in the middle.
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> I should've worn shorts.
What was I thinking?
Let's hurry up, cuz I know they're closing.
>> They are.