I. missouriensis seedlings

I just wanted to brag about my seedlings which are just starting to come up in 
my window tray in the house.  These are I. missouriensis var. pelargonius, 
which I got from last year's SIGNA list.  There were only six of these seeds, 
so instead of planting them out in fall, I put them in a six-pack, cycling it 
through the refrigerator for three weeks and then out at RT for three weeks 
and repeating that procedure a second time.  As long as Betty Lou the 
plant-loving cat doesn't find them, they ought to be alright until they can be 
transplanted into the garden in a couple of months.

I also have some locally-collected I. missouriensis.  One is from seed I found 
at the Ring Ranch in Valle Vidal west of Cimmarron and is a nicely-marked, 
delicate mid-blue.  And then there are the seeds I swiped from a brute of a 
plant I found growing on the edge of the Interstate last June, blooming its 
head off in the middle of the worst drought we'd seen in decades.  It's a 
large, pale blue with denim-blue stripes  on the falls, and I figure the genes 
from this plant ought to be very valuable.  But when I put pollen from it onto 
Ring Ranch, the number and size of seeds that resulted burst the pod long 
before the seeds would have been viable, so now my plan is to wait until I can 
put pollen from RR onto seedlings of Giant Roadside Stripey.  I'll keep you 
all informed if we're all still hanging out here when further developments 
happen.

Barb Mann in Santa Fe, future home of Giant Roadside Ranch-hand.
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