Re: MED: Blue SDBs (and sibs and TBs)
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] MED: Blue SDBs (and sibs and TBs)
- From: i*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 05:04:42 EDT
In a message dated 6/9/2000 12:33:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
sterling_o@yahoo.com writes:
<< I have been looking through the catalogs and am
getting very frustrated. I want to add some blue SDBs
to my collection >>
Sterling:
Don't miss ERAMOSA SKIES (Chapman '96) - the color of a summer sky
and then there's FOREVER BLUE (that I have to get myself) that Chapman
describes as a tailored light blue/violet self with contrasting dark violet
blue beard. And he adds (hold your breath here)
REBLOOMS WITH ABANDON STARTING JUST AFTER THE TB'S
Chuck is in Canada so I know I can count on rebloom here as well.
As far as other blues in the garden this year, I currently have COVERT
ACTION (Stahly) in full bloom in my garden and I had to grab my heart to keep
it from leaping out of my very chest. A medium blue that darkens at the base
of the standards and then flows darker down the center of each fall.
Branched like a tree and so many flowers it looks like a delphinium (I may be
exaggerating a tad).
Chapman's CANADIAN STREAKER has pale blue flowers that are fine.... but OH
that foliage! Heavily streaked cream.... TDF
HONKY TONK BLUES finally bloomed this year for me... a wonderful mottled
thing that seems to have been blooming for a month.
Siberians are kicking in and Dana Borglum's SENECA SKYLIGHTS is glorious. On
the same idea as LAKE KEUKA, it is shades of blue with pale standards that
light up the clump. I can't believe how many blooms that clump has!
GOLDEN EDGE (McEwen) sib. caught me by surprise last night as it has never
bloomed for me and suddenly it's out there. A very large flower (tet?), dark
blue with large golden signal and wire edge on the falls.
Blue is my favorite (today... working motto "whatever's in bloom is what I
like best) and irises do blue so well.
Kathy Guest who is NOT singing the blues this morning, but rather marveling
in an extended iris season.... with many MTB's still kicking butt out there
as well as Talls in East Aurora, NY
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