HYB: 2004 crosses
- Subject: [PHOTO] [iris-photos] HYB: 2004 crosses
- From: "* G* C* <j*@erols.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:29:16 -0400
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A while back, someone suggested we share
our interesting crosses for this year -- or at least the ones that
excite us. So, here are some of mine.
I got 53 pods out of approximately 300
deliberate crosses, plus 16 bee pods. Of the 53, I think 50 may produce
seed. Among these, I was happy to get a cross of DIFFERENT WORLD x BRAVE
NEW WORLD -- a world-class cross, you might say! Actually, I'm
happy to get any cross involving BRAVE NEW WORLD, which I think is a
particularly beautiful flower, space-age or not, since I don't think it sets
seed, and, so far, I rarely have been able to pollinate anything else with
it.
Another one I'm pleased about is
BREATHTAKING x MIDNIGHT MOONLIGHT. BREATHTAKING (photo attached) is
a seedling of mine which will be introduced by Winterberry Gardens next
year. I'm hoping to get an amoena with BREATHTAKING's red-violet
falls.
I also have a pod on TITAN'S GLORY by
BREATHTAKING.
I finally made a cross I've been trying to
get for a few years -- BALTIC STAR x sdlg 01Z1 (ROYAL CARNIVAL x
93R6: (yellow bitone WABASH seedling x STEPPING OUT)). 93R6 is a tall,
wide-branching, vigorous pale violet plicata, nice in the garden, but not a
show-bench flower. Attempts to cross it with BALTIC STAR failed, but its
progeny, a soft red-violet plicata resulting from a cross with ROYAL
CARNIVAL, put two pods on BALTIC STAR. We'll see . .
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Just for the heck of it, I also put 01Z1 on
TANZANIAN TANGERINE and got a pod.
And -- Dave Ferguson take
note -- I also went back and got a pod on YVONNE BURT x ROMANTIC
MOOD.
-- Griff
zone 7 in
Virginia
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