Re: TB: checklist information (was TB: cheap)
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: checklist information (was TB: cheap)
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:32:11 EDT
From: StorYlade@aol.com
As things stand now, I have serious reservations about identifying most
irises. There are just too many that appear similar. Rare exceptions do
exist, but look how difficult it is to identify something like Edith Wolford.
So many look-alikes.
A friend of mine, living in north central TN, made a cross on Dusky
Challenger the first year possible and produced a lovely seedling very much
like DC. One day while she was gone, probably to a show, someone dug a part
of the seedling. Could they have thought they were getting DC? If so, how
many have been passed on as DC?
Even with the recent discussion of orange irises, and they are all quite
distinct, there is room for error. I think I could correctly identify most
of those mentioned. How many irises look like SON OF STAR? But if you lined
up ten oranges, introduced in the past 15 years, I wonder how many of them I
could name correctly?
Oh, dear!
Betty from Bowling Green KY, which should be renamed Boiling Green. Never
happy with the weather. What happened to spring and fall??????
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