Re: iris attrition list

From: "Mike Sutton" <suttons@lightspeed.net>

Hi Paul,
Maybe it's the climate, because yours sound very similar to ours.  I guess
LADY FRIEND doesn't perform well in the heat.  Our bloom season can reach 85
degrees F.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul & Yvonne Tyerman <tyerman@dynamite.com.au>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Monday, July 27, 1998 6:01 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] 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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