Re: TB: death toll (was: HYB:, TB: Season's progress) Ellen
- Subject: Re: [iris] TB: death toll (was: HYB:, TB: Season's progress) Ellen
- From: Sandra Barss b*@mb.sympatico.ca
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 08:27:59 -0700
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Hi Ellen
When did you plant Louisa's Song and Lights, Camera, Action ? I lost a
few more
irises than I usually do over the winter and spring, but they were all
planted in mid-August
which is later than I like. I even lost some new IB and SDB's !!!
Sandra
SE Manitoba
Zone3
Ellen Gallagher wrote:
>--- John Reeds <lamegardener@msn.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>>>Louisa's Song and Double Click are my favorite potential
>>>>
>>>>
>parents this year, with Painted From Memory and Rippling River
>also not being wasted. I really want to derive a flower painted
>with a blue palette from Louisa's Song. <<<
>
>New TBs in my garden that are in the real iris heaven: 'Louisa's
>Song' and 'Lights, Camera, Action'. One other TB is gone but
>took its nametag with it and I have 'misplaced' my handwritten
>garden notes from 2002 that I neglected to tranpose to the
>computer... I did find 2001 handwritten garden notes tho'. This
>is why some of us do not hybridize.... I just found some seeds
>in my kitchen drawer that I had put there in 2000. :-(
>
>The good news is the 85 new bearded (mostly TBs) are doing
>great!
>We had a touch of the dreaded freeze thaw cycles this
>spring...nothing is in bloom except for a few crocus but there
>is some green showing on the irises near the house.
>
>Ellen
>
>
>=====
>Ellen Gallagher <ellengalla@yahoo.com> / Berlin, New Hampshire / USDA Zone 3a
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>Siberian-Species Iris Convention 2003, June 12-15 - Hamilton, ON Canada
>http://w3.one.net/~wilsonjh/ssi.htm (Siberian iris pages)
>http://www.crosswinds.net/~median/ (Median iris pages)
>http://www.irisregister.com/ (AIS checklist data)
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>
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