Re: Re: TB Dusky Challenger

Colleen,
It sounds as though you are having a beautiful spring for irises.  Enjoy it.  I've learned not to buy any iris listed only as late.
Francelle Edwards
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Colleen Modra 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 11:03 PM
  Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: TB Dusky Challenger


  Francelle

  I quite understand your frustration with Dusky Challenger. This is the first
  time in three years I've had decent blooms (and they are lovely). The only
  reason they look so good is that this is the latest coolest season for many
  years and it has been overcast most days. We're still not much warmer than
  September (start of Spring) and we're supposedly into summer.
  I've just had Mountain Majesty flowering majestically and I hate to think
  what this will be like in a normal or hot spring

  Colleen Modra
  South Aust
  Zone 9----- Original Message -----
  From: FRANCELLE EDWARDS <fjmjedwards@worldnet.att.net>
  To: <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
  Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:19 AM
  Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: SPEC: Why do some stay green


  > Praises of Dusky Challenger make me envious.  I had one that I babied for
  five years.  I never got a decent flower from it, and the clump wasn't much
  either.  Problem:  It always bloomed late, so that the buds cooked before
  they opened.  It bloomed out last year, and I will not replace it.
  > Francelle Edwards  Glendale, AZ  Zone 9   Drizzling here, snowing up
  north.
  >   ----- Original Message -----
  >   From: storylade@aol.com
  >   To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
  >   Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 10:55 AM
  >   Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: SPEC: Why do some stay green
  >
  >
  >   In a message dated 12/10/2001 9:25:17 AM Central Standard Time,
  >   lmann@volfirst.net writes:
  >
  >   << In my experience, irises that drop their foliage both during drought
  and
  >   during winter seem to be the most likely to endure forever here, >>
  >
  >   Linda, I know you are especially fond of DUSKY CHALLENGER so I'll pass
  on
  >   this observation.  While I was at Alvaton, one of my self-appointed
  winter
  >   tasks was to walk through the garden to see which varieties showed the
  most
  >   "winter presence."  I don't remember all of the results, but I can tell
  you
  >   that every time I said, "Wow, look at that one!" it was DC.  I did this
  for
  >   several years.  And people thought I was crazy looking at irises in the
  >   winter!  Well, the decision on that one is still out! <g>
  >
  >   Betty from BG KY USA Zone 6
  >
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