Re: RE: [iris] Decadence
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  • Subject: Re: RE: [iris] Decadence
  • From: C* <c*@speednetllc.com>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:29:47 -0500
 

Hi Char,


Found this as a cross-post from Iris-Photos, but I'm glad you did!

For those who don't know where this conversation came from, it's from iris-talk, and you can see the archived topic startup here http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/jan12/msg00010.html

I was totally shocked that Drama Queen won the Dykes this year ... no offense, KK, if you're lurking!  I totally loved it when I saw it at a show in Oregon in 2003, and have had it in the garden since that year.  In SEVEN years, I had never seen it bloom even once, and thought I had lost it totally.

Here, last spring, it blooms in between a HUGE rugosa rose, and some overpowering wild-orange daylilies --- where I thought I had the iris 'Throb' planted.  You can imagine my surprise when the buds peeked out of the sheaths and were plicata striped ins! tead of orange! 
 
I couldn't vote for it, simply because I had not seen it blooming 2 years in a row.  But I wonder how many of us did. Every photo and show stalk I had seen of it was terrific, but without seeing it in a garden other than mine, it would have been wrong to vote for it.

Needless to say, I hybridized it with anything and everything, since I believe the seedlings that survive the michigan winters here will have the better climate advantage and retain the genetic appeal of it's mother.

The curious thing is that another fancy plicata, 'Laugh Lines' bloomed last spring, also.  I had not seen that one in bloom for about 5 years, and it was in a garden all by itself. 

How complicated can the voting system become?  

Adam~



On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Char Holte wrot! e:

 

Hi,
I agree with Tom's evaluation. All the way! We have two small hybridizers
here in my area who do formidable work but get little recognition. I can't
tell you how great their work is but if you see their work you know right
away they know what they are doing.

Char

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Subject: Re: [iris] Decadence

Hi Tom,

Your suggestions make a lot of sense.

Dorothy Willott


In a message dated 1/8/2012 9:43:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
i*@telp.com writes:

> So, I'll go back to! my previous question, why does any iris with obvious
> problems climb the award ladder?

Hi Dana. It's long been my opinion that the single greatest problem with
the awards system is that it simply *counts* the number of judges who vote
for an iris, rather than capturing the average assessment of all judges
who
are familiar with the iris. Suppose an iris is evaluated by 100 judges in
different regions, all of whom are impressed enough to vote for it. Now
suppose another iris is evaluated by 500 judges around the country, and
for
400 of them it does not do well at all. But for the remaining 100 (who
perhaps live in the similar climate conditions), it is impressive enough
to
vote for. These are two very different things, but the two irises will
both
receive 100 votes and be treated the same by the awards system. Irises
bred
by popular hybridizers have a big advantage, and n! ot just because of
"politics", but because the irises from popula! r hybridizers are grown by
more people, and an iris grown by a large number will get more votes than
an iris grown by only a few, even if just a fraction of those growing it
actually rate it highly.

I would prefer a system where judges rated each iris on a scale (1 to 5,
say), and awards given to irises with the highest average rating from the
judges who actually evaluated that iris. This would address so many
problems, and it could be easily tweaked to achieve other worthy goals,
such as requiring a high average rating from judges in different climate
areas.

Tom Waters

Telperion Oasis ~ www.telp.com/irises

Cuyamungue, New Mexico, USA (zone 5/6)

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