HYB:foliage
I've been unable to post to iris-talk for several days. Here is a post I
attempted to send several days ago. (12th)
Once upon a time in the land of irises. . .
I heard a hybridizer say that he would breed for foliage when people started
buying irises for their foliage!
But more recently I've been told that most plicatas have terrible foliage!
Now, I'm not into purple plicatas, and I just hadn't noticed particularly bad
foliage in the yellow and red combinations. But then . . . I wasn't
breeding for foliage!
Recently I've been circling a patch of seedlings from last year and giving
them the evil eye. Why, you might ask? Because the foliage looks terrible!
The foliage is all strappy, small, and laying down.
You guessed it! They're plicata! This was a half serious cross. I wanted
to see what would happen when I crossed a plicata parented variegata
(BLATANT) with a plicata. Thought I might get some interesting reblooming seedlings
in the process. Planted them late. In fact, I almost didn't plant them at
all. Thought what the heck, they can't look any worse than my WINESAP
seedlings!
Is this foliage just an anomaly or is my hybridizing friend right?
(Only seen one other seedling group look this bad as a group and they were
NOT plicata.)
Betty W. in South-central KY Zone 6
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