ot chat
thank you for for your response to my BIO information-I will surely chekc
out the references sent. Hope to learn a lot from you all. Rose
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From: "iris DIGEST" <iris-owner@hort.net>
To: <iris-digest@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 5:01 AM
Subject: [iris] iris DIGEST V1 #27
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> iris DIGEST Saturday, December 7 2002 Volume 01 : Number
027
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>
>
> In this issue:
>
> RE: [iris] TB: SOLAR FIRE
> [iris] TB: HYB: REB: CULT: OT: et. al.
>
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> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:05:12 -0600
> From: "Dana Brown" <ddbro@llano.net>
> Subject: RE: [iris] TB: SOLAR FIRE
>
> I hope so, since Thorn Bird grows like a weed here!!
>
> Dana Brown
> AIS Region 17 Judges Training Chairperson
> Director TBIS
> AIS, ASI, MIS, RIS, SPIS, TBIS
> Malevil Gardens
> Lubbock, TX
> Zone 7 USDA, Zone 10 Sunset
> d*@malevil-iris.com
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
Donald
> Eaves
> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 8:19 AM
> To: iris@hort.net
> Subject: [iris] TB: SOLAR FIRE
>
> Wonder if this Tasco child from THORNBIRD inherited the same growth
habits?
>
> Donald Eaves
> donald@eastland.net
> Texas Zone 7b, USA
>
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> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:50:14 -0800
> From: "John Reeds" <lamegardener@msn.com>
> Subject: [iris] TB: HYB: REB: CULT: OT: et. al.
>
> Well, lots of rebloom with our warm California December. All the Byers
things
> (especially Stingray), Perfect Couple, Best Bet, a pathetic CeeCee,
Wearing
> Rubies, Cast of Characters, Double Vision (again!, but as always a weak
> stalk), Timescape (a lovely surprise; one of my old favorites, it never
> rebloomed for me before. Large, ruffled lavender and white blend).
Without a
> job to drive to every day, my feet are getting much better.
>
> I was over a month behind on the maintenance in my garden, then two weeks
ago
> I broke my right thumb. Finally this week I went out one-handed to clean
up
> my year 2000 acquisitions bed, the most neglected of the lot. Hideous
> yellow-and-brown leaves due to nesting aphids (farmed by ants). Lots of
> stripping and clipping, now it looks healthy although somewhat sparser.
Of my
> 5 louisianas in that bed, four were filthy with rust fungus. For some
reason,
> Garnet Storm Dancer (with three rebloom stalks, disappointingly tiny
flowers)
> was clean. Pulled up or clipped off every affected leaf. Sprayed the
worst
> of the aphid pockets with insecticidal soap. Spread out 10 lbs. of Bayer
Rose
> Care fertilizer (with the systemic insecticide that discourages the
aphids).
> Watered it in a bit. Put Fung-away and malathion together and heavily
sprayed
> the whole bed. I've been lucky; one dot (literally) of leaf spot in the
whole
> bed.
>
> I really need to line out the seedlings I planted last spring; the 3" deep
> trays don't give them much of a chance. The healthiest tray right now
looks
> like Double Dribble x (SA luminata seedling). Only a half- dozen 5" fans
> (they can't grow big in the trays), but healthy-looking. Stage Lights x
(the
> same seedling) has a dozen of the tiniest fan-sprouts of all. One cross
made
> onto both Best Bet and its child CeeCee proves Best Bet genes to be more
> robust, at least in my climate. I now have 2 nice seed pods ripening on
my
> wild SA reblooming plicata seedling, and the reverse cross onto Double
Vision
> also produced two smaller pods, attractively stained red-purple.
>
> I actually had a little help in the garden today, so we also planted a
> trailing Camelia and a line of Irish moss Always wanted to try that
stuff,
> thought it would look great between stepping stones and along shady edges.
> Let's see if it lives. A couple of weeks ago we moved two of our
bouganvillas
> outside the fence. My wife loves them, weekly trimming the rapid growth
with
> 2" thorns was not my favorite task. We added an arbor for our
hardenbergia;
> shredded it a bit in the process of untangling the vines. Destroyed half
the
> developing blooms too. Hope it fills in the top half of the arbor next
year,
> it looks naked now. I love creating a beautiful garden, all our visitors
are
> surprised to see the results of our landscaping efforts. I just wish it
> wouldn't take 10 years for the trees to mature. The Fuji apples (a dozen
or
> so) are ripe now, and delicious.
>
> John Reeds, in 9b San Juan Capistrano, southern CaliforniaGet more from
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