Re: TB: Will the Real Titan's Glory please stand up?
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- Subject: Re: TB: Will the Real Titan's Glory please stand up?
- From: M* T* <t*@flash.net>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:51:57 -0600 (MDT)
Jeff and Carolyn Walters wrote:
>
> Heather Bruhn writes (2 June 97):
>
> > >
> > Actually my ?TITAN'S GLORY? looks a lot like the photo of TITAN'S GLORY
> on
> > Steve Rocha's page (http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/7679/). I guess
> I
> > didn't specify a dark enough blue. It's definately a deep blue but on
> the
> > mid-blue side of deep blue. Check out Steve's photo to see what I mean.
>
> TITAN'S GLORY as it grows in my garden, and as I have seen it in other
> gardens and at shows for years, is not the same color as the photo on Steve
> Rocha's website, which appears much too blue to my eye. The registration
> color is listed as "bishop's purple", and I can't imagine anyone who has
> seen a bishop in full regalia who would describe the color of his robes in
> terms of shades of blue. Of course, my TITAN'S GLORY had purple based
> foliage when I looked at it early in May and still has it now that it is
> bloom, which not everyone seems to agree is the case with them.
>
> It seems remarkable that the description of a well-known, self-colored
> Dykes' Medallist can be so elusive and diverse.
>
> Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
> cwalters@cache.net
Actually, the real Titan's Glory DOES stand up, or at least, it does
in my garden. If it only fell down... then we'd all know which one it
was! I've taken a picture of it, and will be picking up a roll of iris
photos tomorrow, but I don't think TG is on this roll. I need to take
about 20 more pictures before the roll I THINK has Titan's Glory will be
developed. I looked at the aforementioned picture, and my blooms (3
stalks this year) all looked about 5 shades darker, with more purple.
As if there weren't enough confusion already... ;)
Rusty
