Re: Future trends in colours

From: z88keys@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)

>From: "AE C" <maestro123@hotmail.com>
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>>From: "heather & bernard pryor" <irishaven@pip.com.au>
>>To: "John I Jones" <iris-talk@onelist.com>
>>Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 15:56:29 +1000
>>Reply-to: iris-talk@onelist.com
>>Subject: [iris-talk] Future trends in colours
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>>Greetings all from a wet and soggy Sydney!
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>>We have had more rain in August than we usually have in an entire year!
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>>Needless to say the Louisiana Iris are loving it, but the TB's are =
>>looking like last week's pizza - less than appetising!
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>>I would be pleased if those of you who have a particular feeling about
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>>this matter to give me your comments on an interesting experience that
>I =
>>had last April while Iris Haven was attending the large Garden Festival
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>>here in Sydney.
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>>Our stand was located next to a company who do nothing but genetically
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>>create unusual flowers and sell them all around the world.  They had on
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>>their display some orange gerberas which they cultivate in Equador
>which =
>>looked more like chrysanthemums than gerberas.  They also had some =
>>genetically-engineers mauve and violet carnations that were to die for
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>>called "Moon Shadow" carnations.    =20
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>>I asked them why their display featured orange and purple flowers only
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>>and was told that these are the "new colours that will feature in =
>>gardens around the world in the next few years
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>I heard about the orange yellow purple trend last year and my entire 98
>annual garden was orange and purple. My neighbors are still in the pink
>lavender white mode and my front yard really stood out! Since I plan to
>have all colors of Iris, I am sure that I will have some orange yellow
>and purple but not as a group.
>
>ElizabethP.
>Indianapolis, Indiana
>Zone 5
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Let me add that perhaps the outstanding color show of the year was of
CHERRY SUPREME and BLESSED ASSURANCE planted alternately, more violet than
purple and more yellow than orange, but it was a really great show for ten
days. Lloyd Zurbrigg in Durham NC, who is very fearful of h.Bonnie.



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