RE: TB, IB, BB, AB: Calling all weird iris
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- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] TB, IB, BB, AB: Calling all weird iris
- From: J* R*
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:14:35 -0700
Part of your letter letter got cut off, but if you really like weird iris,
you probably like (vomiting sounds offstage) Thornbird. Or try any
crosses, especially wide ones or plics x non-plics for ugly, hafty things.
Attractive but unusual, try Impressionist (poor grower), Spirit World
(wonderfully unique but lousy bloom habits), Fancy Woman, Cloud Ballet
(excellent!), Throb (or Fame, Jolt, etc.; fiery Weiler intros), Epicenter,
Shenanigan, Galllant Rogue (pitiful grower), Filbuster, or Dream Lord.
Anything descibed as a "fancy plicata" or "luminata" will have an
interesting patttern. Many of Ghio's more recent introductions and a few
Sutton things are quite unusual.
John Reeds
jreeds@microsensors.com
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Subject: [iris-talk] TB, IB, BB, AB: Calling all weird iris
> that keepable, color so much like others I have. GREEN AND GIFTED is
really
> weird, don't know if that's a keeper either. CRANBERRY ICE has one more
> worst one being TINK which looks like it would've been stunning colors.
> Almost no standards left, some falls...augh! (That one an IB)
OK, anyone who has weird irises, with colours they don't like, can
send them to me, and in return I will ship you a more conventionally
coloured iris :-) There are LOTS of those. I go in for COLOUR: the
weirder the better; the more colours per bloom the better; in the catalogs
I go for S. and F. different colours; blazes, washes, blends, flushes,
infusions, you name it. If the iris says "unusual," "different," "unique
colour," "edged," "alone in its colour class," "strange," distinct(ive),"
"rayed" or "odd," it automatically goes up on my priority list :-). That
said,
I don't necessarily care for streaked iris unless other than white
streaking;
a yellow iris streaked blue would be good :-). I also am not fond of
horned
space agers but LOVE flounced ones and ones which can throw extra
petaloids.
Every once in a while I go for the self-coloured iris, but I like
them to be a beautiful colour, with sheen and glitter, ruffled
or laced, and of strong substance, to distinguish themselves in my garden.
Rebloom, size, fragrance, or early/late bloom also help.
I know that in a few years Murphy's law dictates that I will crave all
pastel
and self irises , but I'll just have to handle that when I get to it.
--Amy
(PS: I've been told that in zone 8 humid Texas (heat zone not looked
up; Sunset zone 30, which is unique to Central Texas), that I *might*
be able to grow IB and BBs. Your advice on this would be appreciated.
We get enough chill requirement to regularly set peaches and kill back
tropicals; apples, too, but no way on any kind of cherry. Tulips
don't come back, but several types of daffodils do, while amaryllis
are grown in the ground. I get the occasional herbaceous peony
bloom and the Japanese maples fan themselves and grow slowly.
Is that descriptive enough of winter conditions? I would assume that
summer heat would not affect rot in IB/BBs more than in
TBs and ABs.)
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