So, if i get it right, from the second picture with
the 2 suaveolans, the yellow one (mellita) is Clown Pant's father, and the
purple one (rubromarginata) is your cute purple seedling's father.
is that right?
Here i has a Mellita once, but it didn't resist the
winter. Clown Pants is much tougher, it's still here!
Loïc
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From:
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Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 8:54
PM
Subject: [iris-photos] Re: HYB: Indoors -
Iris variegata X suaveolens var. rubromarginata
Hi Betty,
I hope you're all healed up now and ready for
Spring!!!
And thanks for the comments. I'm pretty anxious to get these
guys in the ground and get them ready for some hybridizing (next year I hope).
The pod parent is an MTB-sized, fairly-late-blooming (early June)
species that is pretty familiar to a lot of people. If you want to see a
picture of the Beardsley clone of variegata, I don't have any good ones but
Elm Jensen posted a nice one on June 7, 2008. Hopefully this link will take
you there:
http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-photos/jun08/msg00096.html
The
papa is Iris suaveolens var. rubromarginata which <sadly> I'm pretty
sure didn't make it through the winter. I posted a picture of it March 21,
2005, right after I'd received it in the mail. It's just a tiny little thing
and is the earliest iris I've ever had bloom - mid April
here.
Hopefully this link will show you suaveolens var.
rubromarginata:
http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-photos/mar05/msg00214.html
So
coming from two parent species with such extreme differences in bloom time,
height and flower form... these hybrids should carry a very diverse mix of
genetics and should contribute a lot of variability to a hybridizing program.
That's pretty much what I've been seeing from CLOWN PANTS which has almost the
same ancestry.
Thanks again,
Tom
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Betty
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Delightful!
Great potential.
