RE: HYB: Questionable seedling

I want to thank everyone who wrote me about this seedling.   100% were in favor of keeping it, so I will try.  It has been my experience though that a very week seedling that I try to rescue usually self-destructs.  I don’t know how many times I have been asked, “Did  you get rid of that one I liked so well?”, and I replied, “I didn’t have to.  It died on its own.”  I tend to lose fondness for an iris that doesn’t really want to live.

 

Francelle Edwards  Glendale, AZ  Zone 9

 

-----Original Message-----
From: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com [mailto:iris-photos@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of bdavis3738@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 2:55 PM
To: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] HYB: Questionable seedling

 

Hi Francelle,

 

I like this even better than your seedling that I saw at national.  Have you tried having it grown in a garden further north? Possibly it will do much better out of the heat.  Maybe not too.  You never know.  I know that I have sent some of my seedlings down to my mom and sister in Texas and they have done much better than here in Illinois. Go figure.

 

Just thought I would throw in my two cents worth

 

Take care

 

Brian Davis

Champaign,Illinois

 

In a message dated 9/2/2008 3:55:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time, fjmjedwards@qwest.net writes:

This is the time I have to make final decisions on some of my seedlings.  I need suggestions about this one.  It has bloomed four years for me, and I have received more compliments on it than on most of my other ones.  I have been told that it is a unique color and pattern.  Its problem is that it a poor grower, subject to many problems in my garden.  After all this time, I have only two healthy rhizomes.  I am tempted to toss them, yet I hate to.  What should I do?

 

Francelle Edwards  Glendale, AZ  Zone 9

 



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