Re: TB: "clumps"
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: "clumps"
- From: G* D* S*
- Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 11:01:12 -0500
From: "Gary D. Sides" <irisman@mindspring.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>
>>wrote:
>> > Don't hold your breath waiting for DC to make a clump <G>.
That's one
>> > of the things it doesn't do very well.
>
>And Walter Moores on wonderful soil in Mississippi asked:
>>I have to divide DC every year in order to
>> make room for the bloomstalks so they have adequate space
>> to strut their stuff...
And Linda Mann wrote:
>Not sure I'm expressing this very well..and at the moment, I am
drawing
>a blank on examples of recent, popular irises that DO clump well.
Maybe
>somebody else can think of some....STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN makes a pretty
spectacular clump >>before needing dividing.
Well, that is because it is my understanding that very few breeders
grow irises in a clump any more and I think even fewer are selecting
for clumping quality. Particularly for the western growers, a new
seedling blooms, they line out every single increase every single year
for the next 5 years to get it on the market and very few plants are
allowed to clump and are watched to see what they look like in it.
The closest any of the culitivars come to clumping is if they get sent
to convention as guests and they may or may not perform as they do
back home. It gets introduced anyway cause there's that quota of new
names to get out there every year.
Now, I have probably just slit my own throat here by making all the
big growers mad. But in days of old, people actually visited gardens
and looked at gardenability, etc. It just don't happen any more.
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