Fw: HYB: garbage?

I'm resending this as the other has shown up yet.
Margie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Margie Valenzuela" <IrisLady@comcast.net>
To: <iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] HYB: garbage?


> Linda,
>
> I ALWAYS give my irises 2 bloom seasons. The form almost always gets 
> better, a slight color change will sometimes occur, appendages will 
> sometimes occur, and usually by the 2nd bloom season - you'll see if it's 
> branch and bud-worthy.
>
> Example................ 2 springs ago - - I had the ugliest white 
> seedling - - it looked much like yours.................. form couldn't be 
> worse, maybe 4 buds, hardly any type of branching if you could call it 
> that - a real dog, and it was only a white.  But, I didn't discard it. 
> This past spring it turned into a swan. One I'll be using as a parent now. 
> This white iris flower has excellent waxy substance, a form full and 
> graceful - though not heavily ruffled, with wide halfs, nice branching, 
> good grower/increaser, and 14 buds!!! Not what I expected.
>
> I didn't even take picture of it during maiden bloom it was so ugly. Get 
> this - - I even cut it out of photographs where it happened to appear. 
> (big grin) I was all ready to throw it out before it bloomed for it's 
> second time.
>
> Now I can't wait for it to bloom this spring.
>
> Margie V.
> Oro Valley, AZ.
> Zone 8/9
> IrisLady@comcast.net
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
> To: "iris photos" <iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:42 AM
> Subject: [iris-photos] HYB: garbage?
>
>
>> When I saw this mess, I immediately ripped it out of the ground and
>> tossed it.
>>
>> Some of you have said never judge a seedling on its maiden bloom.
>> Should I have given this awful thing a second bloom season?
>>
>> SEAKIST X white no reb. sdlng: IMMORTALITY x CELEBRATION SONG
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>> --
>> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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