Re: Improving shape AND rebloom

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Part may be the cameras.  That picture was taken in a friends garden and emailed to me.  My sister, who lives in the part of Arkansas that has white sand, sent pictures.  And I've seen it pictured from several different parts of the country.  In some cases, I wouldn't recognize it as the same iris.

 

The cross of Her Royal Highness X Inferno was made as a primary cross for red.  When I crossed the seedling with Feed Back, I got TC. It's the only seedling I remember from that cross.  The falls have more of the blue/med purple look than does Cantina.  Even in my garden, it varies in intensity from year to year. 

 

TC is a fun parent.  It's hard to know what I'm going to get.  The one I've attached is from ((Her Royal Highness x Inferno) x Journey) x Tara's Choice X Angel Among Us.  Pollen from a laced pink grandchild of Pink Attraction.  It looks plum in the bud.  Again this is not a great picture, but I'm captivated by the huge beard on this one.  It's tipped white on the ends. 

 

I've a few seedlings from Cantina x TC.  Only eight were planted out.  They don't look strong. 

 

HRH didn't rebloom for me.  Cantina has.  TC is throwing some interesting rebloom seedlings.  In 2003 I failed to mark a cross onto TC.  It was one of the Ghio reds but I couldn't remember if it was Ritual or Regimen.  This has been an exceptional cross.  Many rebloomers in a variety of colors and patterns.  Not all finished products by any means, but interesting none the less.