Laurie's Iris Database

This is to Laurie, of the deer and purple based foliage:
   What kind of a database are you developing for iris? 
Laetitia

--- In iris-talk@y..., neilm@c... wrote:
> --- In iris-talk@y..., Laurie <laurief@p...> wrote:
> "the deer will stop eating every iris fan" 
> 
> I remember reading that moth balls scattered around in the iris 
will 
> ward of deer.  I know *I* wouldn't want to eat anything with that 
> odor around.  If it smells as bad to them......you may never see 
> another deer again.
> 
> "...which of my irises display purple-based foliage...Honky Tonk 
> Blues..."
> 
> Seems this would be a good addition to the CL.  It helps identify 
> several varieties.  On HTB, I note both Vanda Song and Skywalker 
have 
> some rosy pigment in leaf bases, in both cases rising up the leaf 
> some distance.  Both are from HTB.  One that surprises me to have 
any 
> pigmentation is Happenstance....it has a faint pink toning to leaf 
> bases too.
> 
> Another characteristic is purple tinting to spathes on some 
> varieties.  Chivalry has it, I believe, and among more recent ones, 
I 
> see definite coloring on the spathes in Great Gatsby.
> 
> Many 2n variegatas have PLB.  I remember Honorabile to have rather 
> definite base color.  So does Wabash, as noted recently in a post, 
> which helps distinguish it from Bright Hour, along with the slight 
> yellow influence in the base of the standards in Bright Hour.
> 
> Some recent catalogs mention pigmentation in the bloomstalk in some 
> varieties.  That seems independent of both spathe and leaf-base 
> color, and could be of interest.
> 
> Your data base promises to have considerable value.  I'll be glad 
to 
> contribute as time goes on.
> 
> Neil Mogensen,  6b/7a in western NC


 

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