Re: I also posses an opinion.

>I have no intention of getting personal here, so I will just say this:
>Thornbird is better than any lousy pink on the market, or yellow for
>that matter, in my opinion, in my particular garden.  The reason is
>simply that it is distinctive and it grows well.
>        Hybrid vigor has been lost in all of the dime-a-dozen solid color
>breeding lines in bearded iris when they are truly put to the test.
>Orange? Anything new never lives for us. Yellow? New moon was nice,
>never grew well, anything with that in the parentage is as good as
>dead.  Thank god some breeders are looking for something else,
>hopefully  the less ideal climates (anything other than N. Cali and
>Oregon) will be able to grow intros coming out or there in twenty
>years.  Thornbird gotr the Dykes because iris growers want to see
>something else.
>Andrew Wheeler
Dear Andrew: I got some lovely seedlings from NEW MOON, and all but one
died. So it went on my black list, which includes a few Dykes Medal
winners. I have a cross of oranges that grow well here. Drop me a line
later in the season and I will send you at least one. My old ORANGE HONEY
was not truly dependable, but a good grower in some gardens; might still be
worth trying in that color.I no longer have it, alas. Lloyd Z in Durham NC
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