Re: HYB:REB:cultivars

Betty -- I've grown GRACE THOMAS and MIDNIGHT CALLER, but I don't recall seedlings from either. GRACE THOMAS has a pretty modern shape for its age, and, as you know, has produced some really nice offspring. I was concentrating on different colors and patterns when I had it, so probably didn't take advantage of its obvious value. If I still had it, I think I'd find something to cross it with. I'm sure I tried MIDNIGHT CALLER, but don't think I got anything from it. The checklist doesn't show any registered progeny. I still have it.
I hope you have warm days for the rest of spring. Your cold weather reached us the last couple of days, but didn't go below freezing here. Nonetheless, it has put the TBs on hold for several days. Am anxiously awaiting certain seedling blooms. -- Griff 

Zone 7 along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, in Virginia
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Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7:54 AM
Subject: [iris] HYB:REB:cultivars



Good Morning Griff and anyone not gone to convention.?
Although I've been making crosses since 1986, there are a number of reputable reblooming?irises that I've?not tried in breeding.? Does anyone have any experience with seedlings from the following list of cultivars? 

Silver Dividends (I appreciate any information on this one)
Grace Thomas
Platinum
Midnight Caller
Luminosity (wasn't crazy about the branching on this one when it bloomed in the fall of 2005)?
Grace Thomas, being a child of Spirit of Memphis, might breed the ring pattern we discussed earlier in the year?? That's a question in case anyone has made crosses in that direction.?
These and several others have large clumps this year, insuring?major?opportunity if the freeze, or last years drough, didn't bother them.??There are no obvious problems.? There have been two nights below freezing with accompanying frost.? Monday night was the worst of the two.?? 

Betty W/zone 6/KY/Bridge In Time??

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