Re: AIS: Convention - winning irises
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] AIS: Convention - winning irises
- From: E* G*
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 17:36:43 EDT
Walter asa Walta wrote:
> I would like to introduce the list to an upcoming hybridizer
>named Vincent Christopherson from Arlington, TX. He has a
>brilliant yellow gold with the longest, frilliest horn you'll ever >see.
I agree about the yellow SA. Bennett Jones took me over to see this
incredible iris and he remarked that this was one of the only space-
agers he has ever seen that he liked and Bennett Jones knows irises
being one of the outstanding hybridizers in the iris world.
> Oh, there was a fulva Louisiana called BAYOU BANDIT, by
>Weeks-Campbell that Dennis Kramb will surely love. This was on
>view at Marie Caillet's. It was a outstanding plant with what I
>thought was a different form from other fulvas. You'll either love >it or
>hate it because of its color which may make it the 'Thornbird >of the
>Louisianas'. You might call it dusty rose, but likely it is >something
>else!
What a LI this was. Tall and stately and the color was outstanding. I
would term it an orangy-dusty rose. Farron Campbell was explaining it to a
number of us and it is a stunning fulva. Small but oh so lovely.
> VEGAS WEEKEND? The President's Cup? Where was it? Nobody at our >table
>at the banquet saw it.
Don't know - didn't see it. I voted for a Louisiana.
>I agree on PENNY LANE for the Cook-out, wonderful iris.
Yes. For once, I voted for a winner for the Franklin-Cook cup. This
outstanding orange by Larry Lauer is definitely a TDF iris. It was untouched
by scorch, leaf spot or aphids and blooming its little head off everywhere.
> Was the expense, time, fatigue worth it?
YES.
Cheers,
Ellen Gallagher / Berlin, NH / Zone 3 (raining today not snowing)
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