Re: CAT:Bay View
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CAT:Bay View
- From: M* S*
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 06:40:52 -0800
From: "Mike Sutton" <suttons@lightspeed.net>
Hiya Walter,
We grow them all. George has made the SANTA X HEAVEN cross with the red
thing in mind. DEEP DARK SECRET didn't bloom for us last year but there is
a good amount of increase on it. SEA POWER is going strong right now, off
of one mother rhizome last year we have 9 increases so there should be a
little bloom this year. Can't wait! I am going to cross it with AUTUMN
THUNDER. Woohoo! Your right, I am going to put horns on everything
(actually I like flounces better) and make everything a rebloomer to boot!
Just wait till you see what I have in mind for WILD WINGS and a broken color
SA iris (non plicata breeding). I think I just heard some groans?
How about a DEEP DARK SECRET type of flower with dark spaths and stalk on a
variegated foliage plant (Kathy Guest)? You can tell it's been a long time
since last spring.
Mike
BTW it's scary how you know what I am thinking Walter
----- Original Message -----
> ROMANTIC EVENING has been used in many of Joe's current crop.
>
> I got RE two years ago from one source and it has not bloomed. Last
> year I got a more vigorous start elsewhere, and it looks good. Has
> anybody on the list bloomed RE?
>
> SANTA, HEAVEN, DEEP DARK SECRET and SEA POWER all are TDF's
> according to their pictures. Does anybody on iris-talk grow these?
>
> Seems to me SANTA X HEAVEN and DEEP DARK SECRET X SEA POWER
> would make good crosses, assuming they are fertile.
>
> I am wondering if Mike Sutton has already made these crosses and I
> would be wasting my time. But, then, I think Mike would put horns on
> these so it would be ok for me to try my hand.
>
> Counting my catalogs, I have received only Joe Pye Weed, Bay View,
> and Keppel's scaled down list.
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8
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