SPEC: Success with SIGNA
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- Subject: SPEC: Success with SIGNA
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:43:18 -0600
Hi, Everyone!
Among the seeds I received with my first order from SIGNA a little over two
years ago was a packet of a form of I. chrysographes (Lot # 97J062)
described as "dark plum". I ordered this seed because it originated in
Colorado and I thought that might give it a better chance of doing well
here in what is not generally considered to be ideal Sino-Sib country.
There were four seeds in the packet, two of which germinated. I grew the
seedlings on in pots until last summer, when I transplanted them into a bed
specially prepared for moisture-and-acid loving beardless irises. One of
the two seedlings rotted out within two weeks of being transplanted, but
the other one took hold and has increased to a clump of between 15 and 20
fans this spring, from which it sent up a single stalk that bloomed today.
"Dark plum" is scarcely an adequate description of the very dark, intense
purple flower that tends to shade to near black in the center of the falls
and glows with jewel-like brilliance when the sunlight shines through the
petals. It is a "non-chrysographic" chrysographes with no visible signal,
but I am very pleased to have been able to bloom this delicately formed and
vividly colored flower.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2, AHS Zone 7)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2, AHS Zone 7)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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