Re: CAT: Keppel

--- In iris-talk@y..., "wmoores" <wmoores@w...> wrote:
> Keith is back with color and not just a leaflet.
> 
> QUANDRY is Keith's centerpiece.  It's a new pattern and not a plic, 
> but what to call it - who knows?  It is from CINNAMON SUN and a 
> grandchild of PUCCINI.

Quite a project, was it not, for someone in the midst of the 1999 
Check List, the 2000 R & I and trying to run a business on the side?

Joe Ghio notes in "Coming Attractions" near the front of his 2001 
catalog that "Incidentally Cinnamon Sun X 88-180P gave both this 
year's Keppel's Quandary and our Impulsive, introduced by Maryott.  
It [88-180P] is also responsible for the sibs, Snowed In, Connection 
and Next Millenium, as well as this year's Prototype."

In describing 88-180P, he continues: "It is an amoena with white 
standards and the falls veined and dotted overall with blue, bright 
gold hafts and red beards.  The dotting appears mainly at the bottom 
edge of the falls and never on the standards.  While appearing to be 
plicata, it is different and unrelated to plicatas.  Crossed with 
plicatas, no plicatas result."

Joe adds that it was not named and introduced because the flower 
tends to be small and the plants bloom too heavily for commercial 
production.

I suspect Keith's catalog picture does not show the fall pattern as 
clearly as it may show up in the flesh. The color ad on pp. 64-65 in 
the January Bulletin does not contain a picture of it, but judging 
from comparisons of those that are pictured both in the catalog and 
in the Bulletin ad, the catalog is printed with paler colors.  The 
descriptions suggest the actual color may lie somewhere between the 
two publications.

Neil Mogensen  USDA zone 7a  western NC


 

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