Re: HYB: True Pink Beard
- Subject: Re: HYB: True Pink Beard
- From: p*@coupeville.net
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 01:18:42 -0000
Wow, thanks, Walter! I see that Riverside offers Elect Lady for $4.
Consider it bought. I'll share results with crosses to my many, many
other pinks planted in 2000 & '01.
Patricia
--- In iris-talk@y..., "wmoores" <wmoores@w...> wrote:
> Patricia Brooks mentioned breeding for pinks without tangerine or
red
> beards. I have two cultivars in bloom today with pink beards.
>
> ELECT LADY by Bernice Miller is a pink much like VANITY, but here
the
> beard is pink from the tip to deep in the throat.
>
> A seedling of Peach Reprise x Priscilla of Corinth has produced a
> white iris with yellow shoulders and a wide beard that is a hard-to-
> describe shade of pink. To me it is the shade of a cherry in a
can
> of fruit cocktail. Not red, but light pink. This is maiden bloom
> and I am waiting for other flowers on the stalk to bloom before I
> take a picture of it just to make sure the color is the same on
other
> blooms and I am not seeing things!
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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