Re: HYB: Guest seedlings
- Subject: Re: HYB: Guest seedlings
- From: L* M*
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 21:18:26 -0400
<I'd love to see a picture of this, Linda. In lieu of a picture, how
about giving us a description. What color is it? I'm proud that you
are going to send it to the convention. ....Right now I am growing 157
guest irises that I'm growing for the region 15 spring treck next year.
Some are wonderful. Some doesn't seem to be as good as some of my
seedlings. But the hybridizers shouldn't be ashamed of any of them.
That's what guest gardens are for, to see how they do in different
environments.> Francelle Edwards Glendale, AZ Zone 9
I know, thanks for the encouragement Francelle. But I just keep seeing
all its faults.
I posted a photo of one bloom at the end of October 2001, picked and
taken indoors, but it doesn't really do it justice & the colors are off
(too blue on my monitor). I can try again, but it looks so wretched
after being drowned, frozen, then fried, it won't look like much - lots
of leaves and short stalks. It's more or less a bicolor, pale lavender
fading to white standards and lavender fading to rosy lavender falls,
with a lot of freckled veining at the throat. Nothing to get excited
about as far as color and pattern go. But when I look at this clump and
compare it to the wretched looking AM & HM award winners trying to grow
here, it really looks phenominal. Some of them have tiny little MTB
sized flowers on tall skinny stalks, many bloomstalks are just
shriveling up, and several plants are going belly up as well.
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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