Re: HYB: Embarrasing Moments...lol

>From: "Patrick Orr" <PatrickJOrr@hotmail.com>
>
>As I mentioned to you before, one of my favorite AB's is Splash Dance, a
>broken colored grape ground with white splashes TB looking iris, and
>recently I have Silent tears, a pale blue with lavender splashes blooming,
>and I enjoy that too.  However, I don't know how to answer your question
>with regards to liking PTA as opposed to the others. I just thought the
>color combo (which really doesn't show up in the picture as will as in real
>life) and the flower form were great, it made my heart pound with excitement
>when I saw it. As for the rest of the AB's, I am not a fan of signals or
>short curled under falls.  I guess that is why I never really got into the
>arils much.  There was one arilbred at an exhibition this last weekend that
>I thought was to die for.  The color was wonderfully delicate, and the form
>was pleasing.  It was Dawn Caress.  If anyone would like to see a picture of
>it (a little bit out of focus, but you can see it well enough and the color
>is great) they can email me at Patrickjorr@hotmail.com and I will send it to
>them.

Thanks for the reply, Patrick.  It's interesting to listen to the things
another person looks for in an iris.  As for the recurved falls on
arilbreds, I like that better than the horizontal falls on modern TBs
because the recurved falls make the flower look bigger when you are looking
at a clump from a distance....you can see more surface area of the flower.
That's also why I like so many historics too.

I like the signals for the contrast.  I am growing some of Howard Shockey's
unregistered seelings with bright ruby red signals.  They are TDF!  (IMHO)

I am trying pure arils for the first time, and they seem to have survived
the winter with no problem.  I will be sooo happy if they bloom because
then I will have 100% tet aril pollen to use on my other irises...to give
me fully fertile halfbred seedlings.  Even if the pure arils don't survive
long term, at least they will give me pollen to use in my hybridizing plans.

Dennis Kramb; dkramb@badbear.com
Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
http://www.badbear.com/dkramb/home.html



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