Re: HYB: winter deciduous, ancestry - long, boring

> >This doesn't include the Craig irises with more recent doses of aphylla.
> > Vicki Craig - your post inspired all this recent mad charting - would you
> >post names of your aphylla TBs?  (including the BBs, if they have tet TB n).
> 
>         Why just TBs and BBs? I think the Craigs have smaller medians as well
>         that they have worked on with I. aphylla. I may be wrong but since
>         the smaller ones hold my interest more, I thought I would try. :)

Well, I'm a TB addict (not in treatment!) - the shorties are too hard on
my 'young' but creaky body to get down to eye level, and I've not met
any irises other than TBs, my weedy Siberians, my weed Japanese from
Parks' Higo hybrid seeds, and a junk mail order Louisiana that will
bloom above the unmowed grass and weeds.  Even in my 'tended' irises, I
like to let Matricaria, dame's rocket, annual larkspur, wild mustard,
henbit and other showy flowering weeds bloom amongst the rows as long as
they aren't right on top of the irises (other than the henbit, which in
my gravel and frequent freeze garden must not be as rambunctious as it
is in other parts of the world with 'real' soil and balmier climate).  

I would like to try crossing my pallida children with some aphylla
stuff.  More for the wish list.

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
stalks starting to show everywhere - broke one today while weeding -
time to stop till after bloom season.  My worst weeds - purple vetch and
chickweed.  And this year I let the dandelions get out of control
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