Re: Re: Favorite Schreiner Seedling

Thanks, Neil.  Yes, I noticed the bud count!  But I never looked at clump effect that way before.  I guess branching could get in the way if one is seeking a clump effect.  Tell me, since I've never garden judged before -- but will in the spring, what percentage of scoring would a "candelabra" branched iris gain or loose?  The triple socketed buds are an absolute asset, but what of the candelabra branching.  Anyone, please expand on this. I'm eager to learn!
 
New Irisarians are encouraged to pick spent blooms, but I figured from the photo that the hybridizers at Schreiner's didn't want to risk loosing their crosses on that stalk!  (I also noticed the label on the stalk of #4.)  Mom saw the spent flowers right away and thought that they were a deformity.  :-)  I simply told her that the stalk was probably hybridized. 
 
Adam Cordes~
 
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Subject: [iris-photos] Re: Favorite Schreiner Seedling

Adam, did you also notice the two spent blooms on #4, one on each side of that top flower (the same as the full flower image in the second photo below)?  That photo says there are at least three buds in the top socket.  Also it suggests there are probably two in the one below, and in the full branch farther down perhaps three.  Nice bud count--and widely spaced branches.  Even though that is less attractive in a clump than it is on a first or second year plant, on the show bench it is an asset.
 
Shorter but equally well spaced and endowed branches work better in a clump.
 
Characteristics that are "desirable" depend on what one wants from the iris. 
 
A good border iris might have less branching, but if about half the increase also put up bloomstalks and there is a succession of buds developing in the terminal, that variety is going to put on quite a colorful show over a fairly long time and make a better iris for the border than some of our taller, show-bench oriented Best of Show contenders.  It all depends on the end use we have in mind.
 
Neil Mogensen  z  7  western NC mountains

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