Good Observer (Formerly AIS Judges)
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- Subject: Good Observer (Formerly AIS Judges)
- From: C*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 14:08:22 -0700 (MST)
In a message dated 97-01-22 13:16:11 EST, Rick T. wrote:
<< I have to disagree with one sentence you wrote (see above). Seeing it
at the Oregon Convention (in Schreiner's garden) is why I DID NOT buy
it! It was BLOOMING wonderfully at the Oregon Convention, but one must
look at the plant and count increases? It was in a massive clump of
beautiful flowers and bloom stalks, but if one really looked good at
the
plant (and ignored those beautiful flowers and stalks), they would have
seen VERY FEW increases. Thus it looked to me as a serious candidate
to
bloom out (as one of its' parents has always done for us also, Visual
Arts). >>
You are a better observer than I am! I do try to look carefully at increases
and growth habits of new irises, but I did not detect what you saw re FUTURE
ATTRACTION at the Oregon convention. But I think I have an excuse, or at
least a mitigating circumstance; to wit, the irises in the some guest beds
were growing so rampantly from heavy fertilization that many of them seemed
"abnormal".
Actually, I commented to wife afterwards I would not like tall bearded irises
so much if they grew that way normally. Fortunately, I will never have that
problem because with my drainage and wet climate I would only have rotted
rhizomes if I fertilized so heavily. Clarence Mahan in VA
