RE: CULT: Best of the Season (Too Long)
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- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] CULT: Best of the Season (Too Long)
- From: M* M*
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:49:54 -0400
Hi Walta,
Great report. And it was not too long. I, unfortunately can't report yet
on bloom as TB season has just begun. MTBs are just past peak. The local
Peony and Iris Show was held on Saturday and the majority of exhibits were
other garden flowers. It has been really cool here. Our stalk of
Superstition took best iris (even though I thought Thin Blue Line was
better).
Who does Thurman introduce through?
I thought Arctic Fox was great at the last two conventions and Sonja's Selah
is definitely a favourite in our garden. Golden Panther has a spot waiting
for it.
Maureen Mark
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (zone 4)
> The following were garden stand-outs during the
> bloom season of 2000.
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> Best TB's
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> Arctic Fox - Wood, '98 ~ Red caterpillar beards
> on a starchy white flower that is budded and
> branched.
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> Carnival Sunset - Thurman, '97 ~ Searing orange
> flowers that don't burn.
>
> Eurythmic - Blyth, '87 ~ Unbelievable pinkish,
> plum blend. Stds. pink with the plum fall area
> extending only half way down ending in standard
> color. Not be be mistaken for another, but a
> shy parent. This is the best it has ever done.
>
> Golden Panther - Tasco, '00 ~ Bronze overlay
> over golden brown. Quite an advancement in this
> color class. Good grower, too.
>
> Poem of Ecstasy - Hager, '97 ~ Soft contrast in
> pink and mauve. Perfection in color and form.
>
> Romantic Evening - Ghio, '96 ~ WOW! Lighter
> bluish stds. over very dark, near black, falls
> with smoldering reddish orange beards. Has a
> bright future in the awards department.
>
> Shop Talk - M. Roberts, '98 ~ Another WOW! The
> blended dark violet is hard to describe. Macho
> flower and stalk.
>
> Skating Party - Gaulter, '83 ~ Classic white. A
> mature clump sends up stalk after show stalk.
> Breathtaking!
>
> Stunning Serenade - Thurman, '97 ~ Such a husky
> plant; the most vigorous in the garden. Leaves
> are two inches wide and three feet tall.
> Stunning flowers are of a burnished yellow over
> purple falls. A good stalker, too. Everything
> is right about this iris as it grows here.
> Whoever said that modern irises are weak needs
> to grow this one.
>
> Tom Johnson - Black '96 ~ I had been afraid of
> this one because of
> the parentage (neither parent does well here)
> and had crossed it off. Well, do I have to eat
> humble pie? Yes. This is the premier dark iris
> and has oh so much more vigor than Midnight Oil,
> Night Game, Night Attack, etc. Shows what two
> wimpy parents can do.
> Orangey beard too. Four stars all the way.
>
> Widdershins - M. Roberts '99 ~ Beautiful brown
> with a quartersized white spot. Not a plicata,
> this is the first brown zonal. Super!
>
> Since this is getting long, I won't go into
> detail in the other classes.
>
> Best BB ~ Sonja's Selah ~ Ensminger '89 ~ such
> conrast...Allan's masterpiece.
>
> Best IB ~ Star Woman ~ M. Smith '98 ~ dark
> violet plic
>
> Best MTB ~ Blue Chip Stock ~ Black '98 ~ Blue bi-
> tone
>
> Best SDB ~ Cocoa Pink ~ Niswonger ~ '97 ~ THE
> blue beard!
>
> Best SA's
>
> Margaret Inez and French Horn ~ Sutton '99
> Both in shades of pink
>
> Best LA ~ Creole Rhapsody ~ Mertzweiller '98 ~
> Bicolor in white and raspberry destined to go to
> the top if well distributed. Absolutely nothing
> like it...interploidy.
>
> Best Spuria ~ Sultan's Sash ~ Niswonger '90 ~
> Maroon red with lighter spot.
>
> Best Siberian ~ Deep Shade ~ Warburton '72 ~
> Contrast, growth; upstages Caesar's Brother!
>
> Best Species ~ I. fulva Wilhoit series ~ rusty
> orange
>
> Best Spec-X ~ Cast Ashore ~ Chapman '98 ~ white,
> blue, yellow versi-virginica or setosa?
> Outstanding! You'll hear from this one! Hard
> to believe this Canadian iris likes the South.
>
> Best JI ~ Pink Dimity ~ Reid '87 Gorgeous!
>
> Best AB ~ Syrian Princess ~ Shockey '97 Pink
> with big dark spot...3/4 Bloomed twice, early
> in March and then in late April.
>
> Best 'older' historic ~ Flutterby ` Sturtevant
> '24 Yellow butterflies all over the foliage.
>
> Best 'newer' historic ~ Cherry Jubilee ~ Wood '69
> Red-bearded white by the same hand that produced
> Arctic Fox.
>
> Anxiously awaiting news on the Raspberry Awards,
> the Bronx Cheer Awards, and the Bum Steer Awards
> for 2000, I turn this forum over to Donald Eaves.
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA (Let's hear from you on
> your best bloomers)
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