Re: Hi everyone, new to group
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Hi everyone, new to group
- From: m* v*
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:30:22 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Debbie,
What irises do you have? I have about 100 varieties
now. they are the best flower in the world. I am 18
and live in michigan and have been growing irises for
three or four years.
Michelle
--- Debbie aka Enchanted Iris
<DebbieSommers@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello. Im Debbie and wanted to say Hello to
> everyone! I live in Oklahoma, where irises grow
> quite well! This time of year my city and state are
> covered with lovely irises of all colors and kinds.
>
> I have a major love for irises and love to grow them
> and really enjoy them! I spend many hours sitting in
> the middle of them breathing in their pretty
> fragrances, as silly as that might sound. I also
> collect Iris things like silk flowers, vases,
> miniatures and paintings.
>
> Im looking forward to learning more about irises
> from this group! One of my dreams is to someday have
> an acre garden of nothing but different varieties of
> irises.
> My online nickname is Enchanted Iris. You are all
> welcome to visit my homepage at
> http://www.geocities.com/DebbieSommers
>
>
> Happy to meet you all!
>
>
> ~Debbie aka Enchanted Iris~
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Mike Sutton wrote:
>
> > Hi Walter,
>
> > Matrix is a great parent for us too. Many
>
> > re-selects out of it. You are
>
> > right, it passes on very good form. On our home
>
> > page at our web site there
>
> > is a seedling out of Champagne Elegance X Matrix.
>
> > It's the flower in the
>
> > upper left hand corner of the page. Labled as
> First
>
> > Frost. Reblooms its
>
> > head off. Had some seedlings bloom out of Rosalie
>
> > Figge this year, quite
>
> > nice. Rosalie Figge X Diabolique is really nice.
>
> > Kind of a Diabolique with
>
> > a white flash around the beards. Have to wait and
>
> > see about rebloom. In my
>
> > experience Cantina is a beautiful rebloomer and
>
> > quite consistent
>
> > but.........it stinks as a parent, both ways. Lots
>
>
> > of poorly formed, dirty
>
> > colored flowers. Very sad.
>
> > Mike - Pink Cadillac is blooming away, six weeks
>
> > after peak TB bloom.
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
>
> > From:
>
> > To:
>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 10:31 AM
>
> > Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: question Re Harvest
> of
>
> > Memories, Matrix, etc.
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > > Mike Sutton wrote:
>
> > >
>
> > > Sure Linda,
>
> > > > The ugly cross was HARVEST OF MEMORIES X
> GOLDEN
>
> > IMMORTAL. Now GI
>
> > > > puts out some nice seedlings, most of the
> time.
>
> > HOM hasn't really
>
> > > > done anything for us either as a pod or pollen
>
>
> > parent. Vigor has been
>
> > > > just adequate on most with narrow, dirty
> little
>
> > flowers. Some rebloom
>
> > > > but not an overwhelming amount. Mike
>
> > > >
>
> > > I am wondering if Mike has used MATRIX, and if
> so,
>
> > what has he gotten?
>
> > >
>
> > > Though MATRIX is not the most glamorous
> rebloomer
>
> > on the
>
> > > market, it has FORM and reliability. I crossed
>
> > SOAP OPERA X
>
> > > MATRIX and got some well-formed deep violets
> that
>
> > were free of
>
> > > haft marks. EARL OF ESSEX and ASCII ART crossed
>
> > with
>
> > > MATRIX have given some very clean plics of the
>
> > color of the older
>
> > > TEA APRON, light blue, in other words, and the
>
> > shape of these is
>
> > > nice. These are not TDF's but could be if they
>
> > rebloom in the fall.
>
> > > All of these children came from pollen frozen in
>
>
> > October of '97 and
>
> > > used in April of '98 as MATRIX did not bloom in
>
> > the spring of '98.
>
> > >
>
> > > This year I have about ten pods using fresh
> pollen
>
> > from MATRIX.
>
> > > Some are plic crosses and others are selfs. I am
>
>
> > not sure if
>
> > > MATRIX is a self or plic but it can be used in
>
> > both fields. There is a
>
> > > sprinkling of cinnamon on the hafts that could
> be
>
> > construed as plic
>
> > > marks, but these usually fade. Guess is could be
>
>
> > considered a
>
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