Re: TB: ideal (my favorite anyway) flower form
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: ideal (my favorite anyway) flower form
- From: m* v*
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:42:00 -0800 (PST)
From: michelle verville <mickyjonny@yahoo.com>
Hi Linda,
I agree with you. Lidas Lover is a prime example of
that short, fat apearance. It does have a pretty
color but I find it very ugly. The woman I garden for
shares our tastes too. Actually she is the reason
that I have that taste. I learned everything I know
about irises from her so I am definately influinced by
her. Well must be going. Michelle Verville
--- linda Mann <lmann@mailhub.icx.net> wrote:
> From: linda Mann <lmann@mailhub.icx.net>
>
> A while back we got in a discussion of what we like
> for form of TBs.
> And I discovered after hunting thru catalogs for a
> picture of what I
> consider "perfect" that there was no such thing.
>
> I've sort of changed my mind and think the photo of
> AFTERNOON DELIGHT in
> this year's Schreiner catalog comes as close as any
> (easier to judge in
> a photo than real life, where they are all nearly
> perfect <g>). One of
> the things I've noticed from looking at these photos
> is that I don't
> like the ones that have standards that bulge out
> beyond the widest part
> of the falls (makes them look squashed to my eye),
> nor do I like flowers
> that appear wider than tall. This latter
> distinction seems to be a very
> narrow tolerance - if they are more than a hair
> taller than wide, they
> look old and strappy (like the photo of FORT APACHE
> on the opposite page
> in the same catalog), but if they are perfectly
> round (or worse yet,
> shorter than wide), they look squatty and squnched
> (like the photo of
> EDITH WOLFORD, p58). I notice a lot of the
> Schreiner photos are taken
> from an angle slightly above horizontal on the newer
> ones so they look
> 'longer' than a side view would show. Maybe that's
> to show the view
> most of us would actually see when looking at the
> flower in the garden?
> Surely not to make the flower look like it is closer
> to the form I like
> rather than its true squatty self?
>
> Just curious as to what other iris growers like.
>
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
> taking a gorgeous April-like day off to play.
> Another 2 1/2 inches of
> rain making everything lush - peas are up, redbud
> about to pop.
>
>
>
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