Re: HYB: Pinks and pastel beard color

Neil,

Thanks so much for your reply to my pinks question.  Yes, I wrote 
Keith Keppel several months ago about his breeding for pastels, and 
he told me what he later related in the catalog about his crosses of 
Fogbound and Lotus Land, and I've ordered them both, as well as 
several of Niswonger's -- Pink Blue Genes as well as several new SDBs 
that have achieved the pink-with-blue-beard goal.  I already have 
Blue Chip Pink and Sky Blue Pink and Pink Sapphire (is that his?) to 
breed this season.

I didn't know much about Direct Flight; I will add that to my list 
this year.  It's so helpful to have people's own experience of such 
things as shade of petals and beards.  It will make so much 
difference to plan my crosses with that much advance knowledge.

Thanks again,
Patricia Brooks




--- In iris-talk@y..., neilm@c... wrote:
> Patricial Brooks asked about sources or breeding materials for 
pastel 
> beard colors in pinks.  I note in Keith Keppel's catalog for 1999 
and 
> 2001 notes about his cross of FOGBOUND and LOTUS LAND giving quite 
a 
> range of pastels with pink rather than "tangerine" beards.  Both of 
> them look to be quite vigorous here and I hope to see bloom on them 
> this year.  I suspect most pinks heavy to 
Fay/Moldovan/Rudolph/Gatty 
> bloodline would be good sources in this regard as many of them run 
to 
> the pastel in beard tone.  Lotus Land is mainly from this breeding 
> via the tweezers of Joe Ghio and Keppel.
> 
> Fogbound is described as having "pink and white" beards and has the 
> added plus of including Honky Tonk Blues in its pedigree.
> 
> Niswonger's blue-bearded pink breeding tends to the pastel in beard 
> colors, I believe.  I find DIRECT FLIGHT not only to have lovely 
cool 
> pink color, but a harmonious beard, good branching and good plant 
> habit too.  The beard is described as "tangerine..., blue at end" 
but 
> what it looked like here last year was much cooler than "tangerine" 
> and quite in keeping with the over-all flower tone.  It is fertile 
> both pod and pollen.
> 
> Neil Mogensen   zone 7a in western North Carolina


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