RE: MED: Blue SDBs (and sibs and TBs)
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- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] MED: Blue SDBs (and sibs and TBs)
- From: M* M*
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 09:01:31 -0400
And you can pick up Blue Line from Chuck as well. And I also like Bold
Stroke (IB) and Az Ap (shorter IB). Eramosa Skies is starting its third
week of bloom here. With the cool weather, it may hang in for most of the
next week. It's about the same blue as Az Ap with a self beard. Dot Com
has done very well this year too (it's much like Tu Tu Turquoise).
I have personally seen Forever Blue rebloom. It does take some time to get
established (for me anyway), but once you get a good clump of it going, it
just keeps going. I hoping to see lots of rebloom this year -- it didn't
start reblooming last year til late fall.
Maureen Mark
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (zone 4)
> 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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