Re: dwarfs
- Subject: Re: [iris] dwarfs
- From: Gerry Snyder g*@attbi.com
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:43:04 -0800
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
DFerguson@cabq.gov wrote:
>
> Here's a new subject.
>
> With my interest in the background of various types of cultivars, I find
> one big group that I know extremely little about. The dwarf bearded types.
>
> ....
>
> By the way, I'd also like to learn (if possible - could be a long list?)
> which of the IB's (and perhaps SDB's?) are indeed 44 chromosome cultivars
> derived from TB's crossed with I. chameiris/lutescens. These seem to be
> very tolerant of our climate in New Mexico, to be strong growers, and to
> rebloom really well for me.
Dave,
I am far, far too ignorant to be able to answer your main questions, but
if you don't grow Ditto, get it. An MDB that thrives, blooms, and
reblooms without the winter that other dwarfs (dwarves?) need.
Gerry
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g*@attbi.com
American Iris Society Affiliates Chair, Symposium Chair, and Director
in warm, winterless Los Angeles--USDA zone 9b-ish, Sunset 18-19
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