Re: HYB: TB: Sterling Silver

Linda,

In the 2003 listings I have received thus far from commercial sources of
historic irises, MAY HALL is listed by Riverview Iris Gardens and STERLING
SILVER by Bluebird Haven Iris Garden. 

As current "HIPS help find stuff person", I would appreciate it if you
would pass the word along to me if you find a source for GOLDEN EAGLE.

Jeff Walters in northern Utah  (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2, AHS Zone 7)
HIPS Commercial Source Chairman
jcwalters@bridgernet.com

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> From: Linda Mann <lmann@volfirst.net>
> To: iris@hort.net
> Subject: [iris] HYB: TB: Sterling Silver
> Date: Sunday, February 09, 2003 2:08 PM
> 
> Ah - answers eventually come here if you wait long enough!  Thank you
> Neil!
> 
> What was the question?  Well, way back ...in 1996?? after several folks
> in this forum suggested that to learn which irises might thrive here, I
> needed to study pedigrees, I found that several irises showed up
> repeatedly in pedigrees of the most reliable, tough irises that I grew.
> At the time, I had no way of knowing whether those ancestors were
> sources of some "holy grail" of tough, ancestral genes, resurfacing in
> modern irises, or if they were irises that were just used a lot by
> everybody & therefore showed up in a lot of pedigrees of irises of all
> kinds.
> 
> I bought some of those common ancestors just to see what they'd do here,
> but STERLING SILVER was one that I couldn't find anywhere, so have never
> tried to grow it.  MAY HALL & GOLDEN EAGLE are two more I couldn't find,
> nor could Anner Whitehead, who was the HIPS help find stuff person at
> the time.  I've since seen MAY HALL, I think, & seems like I saw GE
> somewhere.

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