Akira Horinaka

 

The talk about his book sent me searching the web and my library. I don't find any mention of another book. However this is the first I've read about his nursery being destroyed. 


Hybridization has been carried out successfully giving us such grand plants as 'Aquatic Alliance' which is a cross (from Reid in the USA) with I.versicolor and is a good misty blue, and the rather darker 'Omoide' produced by Akira Horinaka in Japan. This is a particularly poignant name because omoide means 'memories' and the plant was named by Akira in memory of his nursery which was destroyed in the earthquake in the 1990s. This was a tremendous loss to horticulture as the nursery contained one of the greatest collections of Iris laevigata in the world. Further splendid hybrids, as yet unnamed, have been produced by Greg Speichert in the U.S.A. and Tamberg in Germany.

Jim Murrain
8871 NW Brostrom Rd
Kansas City, MO 64152-2711
USA
Zone 5b




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