Re: Re: HYB: help - best breeders from Keppel larger blooms?

Your E-mail really rang a bell with me.   I have for several years bought some of Ghio's
  new introductions, with very mixed results.   They would sometimes survive, only if I amended my black gumbo soil with a lot of sand.   When my '06 order came, I put all the '06 irises (4) in very large pots with the best potting soil I could find.   Wow, did they grow well
  and three of the four bloomed.   This year, however, I just couldnt justify continuing this.   My husband suggested that it might be better to buy irises that would thrive in our soil.   I
  think he could envision the place so crowded with very big pots that we could no longer get out the doors.   I may be a complete iris nut, but my purse isn't bottomless.   
                                                                  Pat in Dallas

Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com> wrote:
  Thanks Mike. I wasn't thinking too clearly, or I guess was hoping some 
visitors to Keith's garden to see his seedlings might be able to help.

This has been such a wretched garden season, I think I will just order a 
few to grow in pots to bring indoors again during the bad freezes, just 
to have a few 'fancy' blooms to enjoy, regardless of breeding potential. 
If I haven't waited too late again. It is so hot and dry, it's hard 
to get enthusiastic about ordering much of anything.

Most listed have only been blooming in other gardens for a season or two.>
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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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Region 7, Kentucky-Tennessee 
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