Re: Decadence as a parent
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Decadence as a parent
  • From: B* W* <a*@aol.com>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 10:38:20 -0500 (EST)
I made no such claim. My point was simply that it's genes, both good and bad, are now included in most of the TB breeding programs, and will have far flung influence on the future of tall bearded irises--world wide. The current count for parentage is 91 and there will be many many more. 

<<Parental abilities are not a criteria for AIS awards. So, even if
Decadence is the greatest parent ever,>>
My personal wish is that most, if not all, of those new plants perform well. 


Betty Wilkerson
Zone 6 KY
autmirislvr@aol.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Eugene Baxley <baxleyeugene@yahoo.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Mon, Jan 9, 2012 9:01 am
Subject: [iris] Decadence as a parent


   Parental abilities are not a criteria for AIS awards. So, even if
Decadence is the greatest parent ever, why is an iris that obvioulsy is a poor grower is moving rapidly up the ladder of AIS awards toward the Dykes medal? 

   I hear that Barry Blyth has put Decadence in over half of his 2012
introductions.

   I have found from experience that Dykes medal and Wister
medal winners, on the average, are poor garden plants. I have eliminated most 
of them. Queen's Circle is super here and Drama Queen is doing alright.
I was out with a sharp shovel one day and I eased it under Decadence and was headed for the garbage can with the whole clump when an iris friend came 
up and asked for it. He took it home with him.

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