Re: CULT: TB: Pink TB Symposium
- Subject: Re: CULT: TB: Pink TB Symposium
- From: L* M*
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:44:23 -0400
Mary Lou, it sounds like you may have started a pink iris test garden!
<g> Be sure and take notes to share with the rest of us.
Other than PINAFORE PINK, the only somewhat modern pink I have that is
really robust and reliable is a pink IB or BB that I got a few years
back from Larry Doucette. Never did sort out what the name is. OCTOBER
SPLENDOR was really nice this spring (except for open standards) & is a
fairly tough plant, but it usually has a hard time blooming & reblooming
(too early and too late), plus it's a BB.
As for hybridizing goals with pinks - I had early pollen from PP and put
it on a lot of things, but nothing heading towards an immediate goal - I
think I have pods with HARVEST OF MEMORIES (hoping for something half
way decent in form, growth, bud count & branching that will carry pink
and RE), with the yellow SIGNA seed reichenbachii from Ian Efford (just
messing around), and with PINK QUARTZ (hoping for more modern form
(wider hafts) & substance, either pink, or carrying pink). I don't grow
PQ myself, but got some pollen from a stalk at our show. I don't know
how rubust this cross will be under my rough growing conditions.
--
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
iris-talk/Mallorn archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-talk/>
iris-photos/Mallorn archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-photos/>
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