Re: Re: CULT: Impressive bloomers
- Subject: Re: [iris] Re: CULT: Impressive bloomers
- From: "Mike Greenfield" r*@infinet.com
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 19:27:06 -0400
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
Linda
HUMILITY IB Larry Harder 1994 LT LAVENDER-BLUE; WHITE B TIPPED PALE
YELLOW it is a impressive bloomer.
Something is confused there.
Mike Greenfield
redea@Infinet.com
SW Ohio Zone 5b
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:54 PM
Subject: [iris] Re: CULT: Impressive bloomers
> HUMILITY (Hager) IB is putting on a spectacular show for the second year
> in a row. Lovely pink-toned plicata has made a nice clump. I think
> this one may be usually frozen out here - I don't remember seeing it
> before last year, but I've had it for several years.
>
> Another one in a nice clump just getting started is a red-black IB gift
> from Larry Doucette. Very black on the falls in this cool, wet spring.
> I can probably figure out what this and the pink IB are someday - Larry
> sent a list of everything he was growing at the time he gave these
> away. Both are probably 80s irises.
>
> Still early for most TBs, but ENGLISH COTTAGE is revving up. This one
> is usually frozen out, but grows well always & is loaded with bloom this
> year. No substance, but still one of my favorites - big, loose, and
> <so> sweetly fragrant.
>
> And then there is one of those 'what do I do with this' seedlings -
> super healthy, tall, great garden presence, good bud count, branching,
> nice saturated raspberry color, but haf the falls are striped with haft
> marks, & the form is from the 40s: (I. pallida x MULBERRY ROSE) X DUSKY
> CHALLENGER.
>
> --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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