Re: YAQUINA BLUE... and Others 2
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- Subject: Re: YAQUINA BLUE... and Others 2
- From: z*@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
- Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:10:41 -0700 (MST)
>Donald Eaves, craving blueness, said:
>
><< I hope, Anner, that you are not recommending something I won't be able to
> locate. This is my chance to have a sure thing on the wish list. It's very
>exhausting cutting that thing down. >>
>
>I think there are a lot of beautiful blue irises available and we had a thread
>once on this list devoted to the question of "What's Blue?". People spoke of
>blueness generally and the tendency of many blue irises to have a violet cast,
>which some of them do. Some have a green cast.This is not the end of the world
>and you must love them anyway.. Check out that thread in January 1997, for
>some other suggestions, including one of my favorites, TIDE'S IN. This may
>have been where we all discussed BUSY BEING BLUE, too, a very pert iris.
>
>Among the historics you will want to get a start of SHINING WATERS from the
>Spears at Argyle, down in your neck of the woods. It is WONDERFUL!
>
>Others that are good that they stock as well are fragrant ALINE, regal
>CHIVALRY, incomperable GREAT LAKES, refined JANE PHILLIPS, and the truly odd
>ZUA, with the crepe paper texture petals.
>
>Anner Whitehead, Richmond, VA
>Henry Hall henryanner@aol.com
Donald and Anner: I ought to wait until I have seen it twice, I know,
but the bluest iris I have seen is a new seedling from CLARENCE X ST.
PETERSBURG. ODD as Clarence is not very blue. Lloyd Zurbrigg in Durham NC
