Re: RE:CULT:Hardy Pinks

--- In iris-talk@y..., GardnrJan1@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 4/5/01 8:40:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> wmoores@w... writes:
> 
> <<  Cold hardiness is not the problem with pinks in the southern 
part of the 
> U.S
>  where I garden.  It's the fact that most pinks just never get 
started.   >>
> Walter and all,
>             I should have some input on this subject this year and 
next year, 
> I'm growing several pinks to see what will do the best here in 
South 
> Carolina.   Although I'm in the town of Myrtle Beach, I am not on 
the 
> beach...in fact a good mile or so back and in a wooded neighborhood.
> OUr soil is still pretty much sand with a top layer of good 
stuff.   Pinks 
> I'm trying to grow:  OVATION (will get that this fall)
>                           ALICE GOODMAN
>                           DIRECT FLIGHT
>                            PINK N MINT
>                            JUICY FRUIT
>                           CORAL CHARMER, CORAL SUNSET
> I am assuming that the "coral" colors are similar in growth/habits 
to the 
> pinks?    I also have IBs: ROYAL FLIRT, HUG A BUNCH, COUNTRY DANCE
> so we'll see how those fare as well.    Pale pinks are not my 
favorites so I 
> do lean towards coral/peachy pinks or deep blue-pinks.   I'd love 
to see a 
> chart of hybridizers and the areas they do their work in, like  
maybe a map 
> that has all the hybridizer's initials on the spot where they 
live/work.
> Would make it easy to choose cold climate or warm climate cultivars 
based on 
> where they were "born".  Oh, if I only had the time...
> 
> Janet Natale
> zone 8 of Sc, Myrtle Beach

Hi, Janet,

I think we're in the same climate zone -- 8 -- which is Seattle's, 
but I'm on an island off the Washington coast.  Maybe hard to 
compare.  But since the hybridizing project I'm launching is to grow 
pink TBs with pastel beards, I have a LOT of pinks and have ordered 
more for 2002 bloom season.  I will keep you posted (and thereby the 
iris-talkers -- on which pinks do well for me here.  (Can't wait to 
find out myself!)

Patricia Brooks
Whidbey Island, Washington


 

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