Re: REB: spring bloom & hybridizing
Maureen,
It's been really wet here. Saturday was 12C and windy plus we had a
really bad storm that shreded everything in bloom. My newer stuff
should be in bloom in a couple of days , I'm praying for dry weather or
else I won't have any seeds to plant on our new much larger property
next year. We'll soon see.
Chris in Blainville Quebec Canada.
Mark, Maureen wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> Are you getting all the rain too? It's been too wet to do much hybridizing
> here. Emily (she's 10 now) has been really annoyed -- either we've been
> running around or it's been raining. Yesterday was the first decent day for
> doing any crosses, so she did Cross Current X Canadian Border. It should be
> dryer today, so I'll let her do a few more tonight.
> Maureen Mark
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (zone 4)
>
> > I wish I could get as least some spring bloom on my rebloomers. The
> > only ones that are spring blooming for me now are LOW HO SILVER ,
> > CHAMPAGNE ELEGANCE , and GOLDEN GALAXY ( less than 20 inches tall )
> >
> > SPIRIT OF MEMPHIS , IMMORTALITY , GLOWING SERAPHIM , CORN HARVEST,
> > RADIANT ANGEL AND ISTANBUL all appear to br plenty healthy but refuse so
> > far to put up stalks. Then again , if I was an iris I'd be pissed off
> > too being moved from California to Blainville Quebec Canada.
> >
> > So much for making planned crosses. :-(
> >
> > Does anybody know if CHAMPAGNE ELEGANCE is a good parent. I hoped to
> > make some crosses for reblooming space age irises and mow have little to
> > work with. I'll definately have to freeze the pollen from some of my
> > SAs in hopes of using it if I get some rebloom.
> >
> > Hope everybody is getting better weather than we are here in zone 5.
> > It's bloody cold and windy around here !!
> >
> > Christopher Darlington
> >
> >
>
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