Re: TB: A Decade of Dykes in MS

I find it very interesting how different irises do in different parts of the country.  Of those you mentioned, I agree Stairway to Heaven is very beautiful and also a good grower.   It is a great iris that has produced little comment or controversy.  Yaquina Blue has made fair increase in the two years I've had it.  It has also produced two stalks of deep blue flowers, but without the perfection of form that it has in the pictures.  Conjuration has always produced show stalks for me a little too late for the show.  I like it.  Thornbird does well here, but I have seen it in other gardens and don't need it in mine.  My opinion is still out on Hello Darkness.  Despite all the bad things I've heard about it, it has made good clumps in my garden.  It just hasn't bloomed yet.  I lost Honky Tonk Blues to rhizome rot this fall.  It never did well here.  I am very fond of Pond Lily.  It blooms well with such beautiful flowers.  The increase is fairly good.  Though I have to watch it for rot; it's worth it.
Francelle Edwards,  Glendale, AZ  Zone 9
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: wmoores 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:11 PM
  Subject: [iris-talk] TB: A Decade of Dykes in MS




     Of all of the Dykes' winners for the last decade, DC is the only 
  consistent show stalker in the bunch in my garden.  If it has a 
  fault, it is that it likes to be divided annually, but it gives show 
  stalks at registered height on one year plants anyway. DC does so 
  well in Middle Tennessee that in one of the shows there is a special 
  trophy for the best DC.  I cannot remember if it is Nashville or 
  Lebanon that has this. The second best of the Dykes' Medal winners 
  for the decade for me is STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN.   EDITH WOLFORD, 
  SILVERADO, HONKY TONK BLUES, and BEFORE THE STORM  are inconsistent 
  performers if they survive the first year. (Of this inconsistent 
  performer group, only SILVERADO remains in my garden).  HELLO 
  DARKNESS blooms out, and YAQUINA BLUE has bloomed only once on a 
  runted stalk after being here three or four years.  CONJURATION and 
  THORNBIRD have been discarded because of their obvious faults, one 
  because of lack of proportion and the other for being totally 
  unattractive.  Your assessment may be different, but that's how these 
  irises stack up here.  It may be different five miles down the road 
  or five hundred miles away, and I fully understand that.

  Walter Moores
  Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8





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