Re: Other Hybridizing Interests?
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- Subject: Re: Other Hybridizing Interests?
- From: "* H* <h*@povn.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 07:32:17 -0400
From: "J.F. Hensler" <hensler@povn.com>
The iris season doesn't last nearly long enough so I've been playing with other
plants.
I've been hybridizing daylilies, scabiosa, anemones and a few others. The rest
of the plants I'm working with aren't hybridized as much as they are selected
for out of the resulting populations each season. (We eat or yank the rejects.)
With our short season, veggies are a priority. Peas that produce well when the
weather goes from the 50s to the 90s overnight, spinach that produces huge
leaves and is slow to bolt, snap beans that will germinate in cold soil (we've
discovered that a small percentage are frost tolerant!), zuchinni that does well
in less than optimum conditions.
Where rampant curiosity is responsible for the iris and daylily crosses and
hunger drives the work with the veggies, a love of oddities is responsible for
the rest of the plants... a red leaved Escholza, variegated carrots, lobelia,
beans, peas, and violas, and a line of Oriental poppies that should wind up
producing truly dwarf plants.
What about the rest of you? What in the garden keeps you busy when the irises
aren't blooming?
Christy Hensler
Newport, WA z4b
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