Re: AWARDS
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- Subject: Re: AWARDS
- From: "* O* <s*@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 06:39:29 PDT
From: "Sterling Okase" <sterling_o@hotmail.com>
Hi Talk-ers
Walter wrote:
> So, it's CONJURATION! Again, like last year, there will be a
>lively debate on this one, but the color is constant even if the horns
>aren't, the standards are open, and the stalk is tall and needs staking
in
>the wind. The blooms are smallish, but the clump is gawjus at a
distance,
>and one couldn't ask for better branching, but a Dykes????
>
> Ok, fire away at me!
I don't think there will be a very heated discussion (like there was
with THORNBIRD) as to why CONJURATION has won the Dykes Medal. It's
merits are apparent.
Here in my garden in Seattle I have grown Conjuration since about '92.
Amazing in that most iris I grow only stay in my garden about three
years. For me, it has excellent branching, with at least 10 buds but
never crowded or bunchy. Standards are very slightly open, barely
noticable. For health and growth it is one of the tops in my garden.
Color and Style......at a distance or close up, is distinctive. Staking
has not been a problem for me.....uh.....except for right now, I set so
many pods on it that I had to stake the stalks. It looks like a circus
juggler doing a balancing act.
Iris Maniac,
Sterling (not Innerst)
Seattle, WA. Zone 8
AIS, KCIS, HIPS and MIS
sterling_o@hotmail.com
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