RE: HYB: Edith and Hello Darkness

Hello,
I am a new grower, but I had two of the same iris, Stairway to Heaven,
sent as a bonus by two different companies this past fall. I decided to
grow them side by side to see if there was a difference in the same
soil, sunlight, everything. Wow--is there ever! One looks to be on its
way to brilliance, and the other is just kind of sitting there most
unimpressively.

I thought that was interesting.

Mike in SC, Zone 8

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Dana
Brown
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:57 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] HYB: Edith and Hello Darkness

Edith is a slow grower here but is a good bloomer.  Hello Darkness from
our first source nearly died on us.  We bought it from a second source
and it has grown like gangbusters.  Sometimes I wonder if the source
isn't some of the problem instead of the iris.  On several occasions a
piece of XYZ has done very poorly but when purchased a second or third
(3 time is my limit) I will get very different results.

-----Original Message-----
>From: DWiris@aol.com
>Sent: Mar 22, 2006 2:52 PM
>To: iris@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [iris] HYB: how many seedlings?
>
>In a message dated 3/22/2006 12:16:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
>pharcher@mindspring.com writes:
>
>Examples  that might not have made it through such a
>culling might have been 'Edith  Wolford' and 'Hello Darkness' which
have never
>done very well for me and I  can't imagine they would have made it as 
>seedlings
>unless their sibs were  equally as poor in growth in my climate and
others.
>
>
>
>'Edith Wolford' only lasted a couple of years in our garden, but I
can't  
>forget the 20 or 30 foot row of it blooming in Ben Hager's garden when
the AIS  
>convention was there.
> 
>On the other hand 'Hello Darkness' has done quite well.  It is not the

>fastest increaser, but it provides enough increase for us to take
several to our  
>club sale every year.  It creates a lot of attention from garden
visitors.
> 
>Dorothy Willott in Northern Ohio, Zone 6
>
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Dana Brown
AIS Region 17 RVP
Director ASI, TBIS
AIS, ASI, MIS, RIS, SPIS, TBIS
Malevil Iris Gardens
www.malevil-iris.com
Lubbock, TX
Zone 7 USDA, Zone 10 Sunset
danabrown@peoplepc.com



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