Re: iris attrition list

From: Paul & Yvonne Tyerman <tyerman@dynamite.com.au>

At 18:33 26/07/98 -0500, you wrote:
>From: Glenn Simmons <glsimmon@swbell.net>
>
>
>
>Jan Clark wrote:
>
>> Lady Friend grows and increases well. Doesn't seem to have any helath
>> problems. It certainly looked nice in a clump, and I will most likely
>> continue to grow it for that reason. People who saw it Ooohed and
>> Aaahed, but close up, I just wasn't impressed. Pictures I had seen
>> looked better than the real thing, and I even thought for a while I had
>> the wrong iris, but I had two the same, from two different sources.
>> It wasn't as red as I expected, and this may be due to our climate.
>> This is starting to sound like the great Thornbird debate. It may just
>> be that I have a contrary nature, so that if everyone else likes it, I
>> surely won't.
>> Jacks son shouldn't drink so much!
>> Cheers - Jan Clark
>
>Lady Friend is a great iris and beautiful on top of that Jan!  The only
>thing I can think of is that you people down there are growing it upside
>down!
>
>Glenn
>

Well,
	Being another Aussie I've got to put my two cents worth in.....

	Oh yeah....... for reference in case anyone out there is interested.... I
live around 8 hours drive from Jan (somewhere around 750km approximately?).
 We have pretty similar climates but I'm not sure of soil comparisons.  We
here in Canberra tend to have rather heavy clay that needs to be either
replaced or greatly built up with organic matter so that it doesn't bake
solid in Summer.  Our weather extremes are around -8'C to 40'c-ish.  I
thought some of you might be interested.

	Anyhow....... back on to Lady Friend

	I too am disappointed with Lady Friend and am thinking of getting rid of
it.  I know others like it but to me it looks decidedly washed out or
faded.  No intensity or depth to the colour at all.  I have another couple
of "reds" that I'm growing now and I'm awaiting them to find out whether it
is just the nature of reds and they all have that colour appearance.  For
reference.... is Court Marshall regarded as a red?  As far as I know it is
that "sort" of colour.  Might get around to buying "Warrior King" one of
these days too.  Let me know what you think!!

Paul Tyerman (Canberra, Australia)


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