Re: HIST--Oops! VAN CLEVE, 1928
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- Subject: Re: HIST--Oops! VAN CLEVE, 1928
- From: m*@tricities.net (Mike Lowe)
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 18:45:48 -0600 (MDT)
My face is red, I should have searched my database for Van Name-hybridizer
when it didn't turn up a Van Name in the cultivar field! Oh well, depend on
a machine and your gray cells atrophy.
Cameron Hall of Petersburg, Virginia has grown VAN CLEVE (Van Name 28)
since the early 90s. Cameron has a large holding of not-easily-found older
iris and I usually photograph in his garden at least twice each iris
season.
I have never seen VAN CLEVE blooming in Cameron's garden, I don't remember
if he has mentioned that he bloomed it. VC has grown in my garden since 94
and it has yet to give me a stalk. It was not blooming when I visited Phil
Edinger's garden although I cannot hold that against the iris since it was
early and VC is touted as a medium-late bloomer.
I would suspect that you have an iris that will take up space in your
garden and perhaps give you one bloom year in five. There has to be some
reason why it is such a rarely found iris! Up to the time Phil gave it
distribution, it was only grown by Presby and Edinger.
Cheers,
Mike Lowe mikelowe@tricities.net http://www.tricities.net/~mikelowe/
http://www.worldiris.com
