Re: REB: spring bloom & hybridizing
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] REB: spring bloom & hybridizing
- From: J* G* C*
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 20:25:28 -0400
Chris -- CHAMPAGNE ELEGANCE is fertile both ways and sets seed readily. It
produces a goodly number of seeds per pod.
Griff
jgcrump@erols.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Darlington <chris.darlington@sympatico.ca>
To: iris-talk@egroups.com <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Date: Sunday, June 11, 2000 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] REB: spring bloom & hybridizing
>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
>
>birchbun@syv.com wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>> Just as my contribution from the Central Coast of California (zone 9),
>> EDITH WOLFORD has been blooming since April, and still has four
>> stalks with four blooms each. Likewise, THORNBIRD and JESSE'S SONG
>> have also been consistently blooming, and still just put out 3 and 4
>> new stalks respectively. HOMECOMING QUEEN just put up a new stalk,
>> and MOTHER EARTH and SAMURAI WARRIOR are down to their last new
>> bloom. Of course, all my IMMORTALITY's are blooming like crazy, and
>> show no signs of stopping.
>> Lynne in CA, where it's been nice and cool, but forecasts say over
>> 100 degrees by Wednesday.
>>
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