Re: TB: Edith Wolford or Jurassic Park (or something

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Colleen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colleen Modra" <colleen@impressiveirises.com.au>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 6:34 AM
Subject: Re: [iris] TB: Edith Wolford or Jurassic Park (or something


> Here's a photos of  From A Distance and ActThree from my garden. Act Three
> is from a scanned photo so is a bit too purple.  From A Distance is also a
> soft colour, does OK but not as vigorous as JP. Also FAD tends to fade, a
> just lacks a bit of crispness in it's looks.
>
>
> Colleen Modra
> Adelaide Hills AUST
> zone 8/9
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Reeds" <lamegardener@msn.com>
> To: <iris@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 7:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [iris] TB: Edith Wolford or Jurassic Park (or something
>
>
> > Edith Wolford never performed well for anyone I know around here
(although
> one
> > year I remember getting 3 surprisingly nice stalks, most years it never
> blooms
> > at all and I never got even one good stalk except for that one year.
> Jurassic
> > Park does well for most people, but Jurassic Park has the same problem
> most of
> > the other iris in the "I have one that looks like Edith but grows
better"
> > category have:  it DOESN'T "look like Edith".  Edith has soft YELLOW
> standards
> > and light BLUE (or almost-blue) falls.  The rest mostly seem to be dirty
> > yellow over lavender.  Somehow that clean, Dutch-looking color
combination
> was
> > so pleasing.  Whatever their merits, that exact combination and clean
look
> has
> > never been there in the "just like Edith" cultivars I have seen.
Speaking
> of
> > which, I have never seen Blyth's "Act Three" except in a catalog.  How
> close
> > does it come?
> >
> > John Reeds
> > lamegardener@msn.com
> > San Juan Capistrano, CA zone 9b
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Autmirislvr@aol.com
> >   To: iris@hort.net
> >   Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 6:57 AM
> >   Subject: Re: [iris] TB: Edith Wolford or Jurassic Park (or something
> else)?
> >
> >
> >   In a message dated 4/2/2005 7:44:20 A.M. Central Standard Time,
> >   Irisacher@aol.com writes:
> >
> >   Both  BOYSENBERRY
> >   BUTTERCUP and JURASSIC PARK are outstanding, but JP is so much  darker
> that
> > I
> >   wouldn't put it in the same color class. EARTH SONG performs  better
> than
> > EW;
> >   not
> >   as well as BB.
> >
> >
> >   I've grown both of these.  Both grow well for me.  EARTH SONG  would
be
> my
> >   choice.  But, if you're expecting something that looks like  Edith,
they
> > don't.
> >   Not in my opinion.  EARTH SONG comes close from a  distance, but up
> close is
> >   more coarse and a little muddy.  Doesn't have  Edith's clear tones.
> >
> >   I've not grown JURASSIC PARK .  Could be because Best Bet never  grew
> well
> >   for me. But I do like it.
> >
> >   Betty W. in  South-central KY Zone 6
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