Re: Re: HYB-Romantic Evening
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: HYB-Romantic Evening
- From: w*
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 07:31:24 -0600
- Priority: normal
On 3 Mar 01, at 1:58, neilm@charter.net wrote:
> Linda Mann asked about experience growing Romantic Evening in the
> East and/or Southeast. It does just fine here in NC, zone 7a. I
> have some seedlings from Romantic Evening pollen on Swingtown, a
> violet self, and Great Gatsby, a bitone violet-blue.
>
> Neil Mogensen zone 7a, western NC
Linda, ROMANTIC EVENING has been vigorous here and has produced some
excellent stalks and, of course, beautiful blooms. I used it, too,
especially with ARCTIC FOX for lighter bicolors/bi-tones with red
beards.
Let's put RE to work on the blacks to get some vigor and better
stalks. The recent, popular blacks are overwhelming in color, but
here they lack vigor, branched stalks, bud count,and height -
MIDNIGHT OIL to name one. The first progeny may be bitoned, but
later generations should produce selfs with who knows what color
beards! Schreiner blacks thrown into the mix might add to the self
effect. Let's hope we don't add overbloom (HELLO DARKNESS) when we
do. TOM JOHNSON would add a lot, too, except for the slightly open
standards. MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (probably too old to use now) would
certainly contribute branching.
Let's get busy.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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