Re: HYB: sticking to goals..
- Subject: Re: HYB: sticking to goals..
- From: p*
- Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 02:45:33 -0000
Linda,
As to your question about other goals of my crosses, there is always
some method to the madness, much of it having to do with beards,
trying to change beards that strike me as clashing with the color of
the rest of the bloom. Not only on the pinks.
My second specific hyb project is hard to describe. Although I think
of it as my Electrique line and includes B. Blyth's other Crazy For
You progeny, it also includes vivid cvs, both Blyth's (Lilac Wine et
al) and others such as Conspiracy, Five O'Clock World, Mystic
Warrior, Cranberry Ice, Hook -- mixes of violet, electric blue,
purple, mauve... As I said, hard to describe, but the aim of the mix
always makes sense to my aesthetic hunches.
Patricia Brooks
--- In iris-talk@y..., Linda Mann <lmann@v...> wrote:
> Chuck Chapman in Canada wrote:
> <I have frantically crossed everthing left in the garden and as a
result
> now have quite a collection of late bloomers, which also get
crossed in
> desperation as the season winds down.>
>
> <g> This sounds like my mad frenzy to make crosses this year - may
never
> see another bloomseason as good as this one. Sort of like 'end of
> season'.
>
> In my list of hybridizers' goals in my previous post, I forgot to
> include your interest, Chuck, in tough TBs to overwinter REAL winter
> conditions. Sounds like one of your goals has become hybridizing
late
> bloomers, even tho that wasn't something you planned when you
started?
>
> & Patricia Brooks in WA wrote:
> <I have way more cvs than pinks, so I am kept busy all season -- 114
> crosses made to date this year. >
>
> Patricia, do you have goals in mind for these other crosses, or are
they
> more spur of the moment choices?
>
> As I look over my list of crosses that have produced pods this year,
> there does seem to be more method to most of what I was doing than
it
> seemed some of the time while I was doing it. Most crosses were of
> rebloomers; some crosses were to try to add substance or branching
to
> some tough older irises that I love; one or two were mixing plicata
&
> other patterns.
>
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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