Re: HYB: HIST: TB: ?seedling/pallida pink?

At least you know how to spell dandelion.  I knew mine was wrong but 
couldn't come up with the correct spelling and was too lazy to 
bother looking it up.  Dandelions here aren't even plants yet, much 
less bloomed enough to have seed heads.  I actually like the blooms 
and seed heads on the dang things. They may take a year off with the 
drought. 

> but how in the world would a tangerine pink seedling come from a 
first
> generation cross with I. pallida?

Well, are you sure what you have is pallida and not some cross of a 
pallida?  Is it the one you sent me a few years back?  That one 
usually goes completely dormant (or nearly) in winter and is one of 
the last iris to break dormancy in the spring - just barely ahead of 
the variegated pallida I grow.  Both tend to bloom in the last third 
of the bloom season.  Slightly ahead of those that are really late, 
but after peak bloom here which occurs on mid-season bloomers 
(usually - in a semi-normal year).  Peak bloom might occur here 
earlier but early bloom is always affected by late freezes to some 
degree.  That would put the pallida clearly in the late blooming 
category.  The I. germanicas are early, very early.  Sometimes all 
their bloom is eliminated by late freezes.  Due to the drought, I 
doubt any of the pallidas will attempt to bloom this year.  No sign 
of it, anyway.

Donald






 
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