Re: HYB-Romantic Evening

--- In iris-talk@y..., "wmoores" <wmoores@w...> wrote:

"I am wondering which ancestor in the Schreiner 'black' line 
> contributed to the overbloom that is in HELLO DARKNESS and THUNDER 
> SPIRIT...."

Black Forest behaved like that in Idaho.  I never could get adequate 
increase on it, and it would sit and sulk, then overbloom, didn't 
like winter, didn't like 100+ (up to 115 degrees a few times).  Most 
irises loved the conditions, except for the weeks the temps would 
hang right at freezing--prime time for Botrytis, but I finally found 
a control--move!

 Walter Moores continued:
"DUSKY CHALLENGER doesn't appear often in black pedigrees...I know 
that plants are on the market with the parentage of Silverado x Dusky 
Challenger or the reverse, but I have not seen any of them in bloom." 

I've seen Dusky Challenger in a few pedigrees, but haven't seen them 
either.  I picked it up at the local auction last summer, and so far 
it has survived, hardly grown until just the past couple of days.  
Now it's taking off.  I figured I ought to get to know it close up, 
even if I never use it.  It's another case of playing "catch up" on 
the developments I've missed out on.  The dark purple I'm using for 
the moment is EMPEROR'S CONCERTO.  It's pedigree has almost 
everything but the kitchen sink in it, and it is a very classy dark.  
It also grows well.

Neil Mogensen  7a in western NC


 

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