Re: OT: Lookalikes & seedlings
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT: Lookalikes & seedlings
- From: d*@dynamicro.on.ca
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 06:20:30 -0500 (EST)
From: dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Jan Clark wrote:
> From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
>
> >I also have a problem with that Rosalie. We have a club located close by
> >that
> >sells seedlings of a local hybridizer to the public as well. I just think
> >it's unethical to do this because we shouldn't be adding to the unknown
> >pool.
> > Jim Loveland, Fenton, MO Zone 5
>
> Curiosity got the better of me last year, and I bought 6 seedlings offered
> by a perrenial plant mail order company, which touted them as being from an
> 'Australian breeding program'. The seedlings were offered as 'unnamed
> seedlings in full colour range, with many bicolours'. Cost 6 for $9.00 Au.
> They have lived up to my expectations fully so far. Poor growth, hardly any
> increase, only one flowered, and it was a major disappointment.
> I can only hope that my seedlings (500 of them, showing particularly good
> growth, mainly in large pots, 3 or 4 dwarfs or IB's together) are much more
> soul satisfying, and must remember not to waste my money in future.
> Jan Clark, Aus
Jan, I don't want to support the sale of unnamed seedlings (even if so
labelled) but maybe you should wait another year and see how they do in
the second year. Mine don't bloom in the first year. I am really puzzled
about what zones you are all in in Australia. Actually maybe you could
look at the zone map for the US which gives the lowest and highest temps
for winter and summer and see if you can't work out what your equivalent
zone in Australia might be.
--
Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca>
Zone 4/5 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
AIS, CIS, SIGNA, IRIS-L, Canadian Wildflower Soc.
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