Re: HYB: Color - in pursuit of red
From: "Patrick Orr" <PatrickJOrr@hotmail.com>
In the January 1999 AIS bulletin, there are two very good articles:
Approach to Red Iris - Don Spoon
Rocky Road to Red Irises - Terry Aitken
These two articles can provide some answers for you. I will be personally
growing one of the irises mentioned in Aitken's article, ARIZONA REDHEAD
(Shepard 99) to continue the line for red.
Good Luck - hope the article comes out well.
Patrick Orr
AZ - Zone 9
----- Original Message -----
From: <Irisborer@aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 2:13 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] HYB: Color - in pursuit of red
> From: Irisborer@aol.com
>
> I will be helping a young man at the 'zine GARDEN DESIGN to compile an
> article on Holy Grail colors in plants. That is, colors are are not
found
> in a particular plant - and so are much sought.
>
> Like blue roses
> Blue daylilies
> Orange herbaceous peonies
> and.....fire engine red irises
>
> I warn people at iris sales that we use some 'artistic license' when
> proclaiming colors (a source of much frustration to some folks... ) - so
that
> the irises we have as RED are going to be maroon, blood red, reddish
purple
> and so on. But not lipstick red.
>
> I had heard some time ago that one large iris grower was putting
considerable
> cash into some gene splicing research to try to drag the red into
irises....
> I don't know how that's coming (or if it's even true).
>
> So - I'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject.... or any
information
> that might make this young man's story more interesting (and get the iris
> name out there....).
>
> I am PR Chair for AIS - and my motto is "there's no such thing as bad
> publicity".... and I will qualify that statement to say that this only
> applies to benign things like plants.
>
> Kathy Guest - who knows that one provocative question thrown to the list
is
> worth about 20 hours of research
>
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