Re: FW: SPEC: Dottie's Double
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- Subject: Re: FW: [iris-talk] SPEC: Dottie's Double
- From: D* K*
- Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 09:46:01 -0400
>
>Somebody a few years ago gave me a piece of what she said was a Louisiana
>iris, DOTTIE'S DOUBLE, which apparently was found in the wild by Dottie's
>young daughter while on a family picnic, if I remember the story right. It
>has six falls, no standards, a soft pale blue, and blooms after the TBs but
>before the JI.
>
>I mentioned this plant at yesterday's dig, and somebody said that it's not a
>Louisiana at all, but a natural versicolor-laevigata cross. Can anybody
>clarify?
I can't clarify, but I can help make it murkier. I thought Dottie's Double
was a wild collected form of the species I. virginica var. shrevei? That's
what I read in a catalog somewhere, some time ago.
Dennis Kramb; dkramb@badbear.com
Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6
http://www.badbear.com/dkramb/home.html
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