• Subject: RE: HYB: First bloom of the year
• From: F* E* <f*@q.com>
• Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:04:13 -0700

Hello Everyone,
After all these months I finally get to see a real iris blossom, two in
fact.  It's one of my reblooming seedlings 63-75 (Wearing Rubies X
Epicenter).  I had fifty seedlings bloom from that cross, all very dark red,
some black.  I kept four from the bunch, the two with the best stalks and
bud count and the two blackest ones.  In the next cut I narrowed them to one
of each which have both turned out to be quite nice irises.  The very black
one I regestered last year as Midnight Kitty.  It will be introduced this
year by Kary's Iris Garden. The dark red has proved to be a prolific
rebloomer.   It has put up five stalks this month.  The first one froze.  I
cut two with opening blossoms to protect them from flocks of hungry birds.
They are on the dining table now perfuming the room.
Francelle Edwards,  Glendale, AZ  

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