OT: RED Iris
From: Sharon McAllister <73372.1745@compuserve.com>
Message text written by Walter Moores
> Spray painting will probably cause the bloom to collapse. Best
bet is to stick the stalk of a white iris in red food coloring and let
the flower absorb the color. Look in the archives for 1997 and enter
cake color as your search term. There is no guarantee here that
you will get a red iris. Whatever you get in this procedure will be
unique, indeed, and will get this person's attention, and they will
forget temporarily the need for a 'truly' red iris.<
Would you settle for a red-on-white "plicata" pattern? Or a red halo on a
pink self? In my experiments, I found that the pattern differed with the
cultivar -- but all are very different from "normal" iris color patterns
and certainly eye-catching.
Sharon McAllister
73372.1745@compuserve.com
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