Re: Re: HYB: seedlings

In a message dated 3/27/2006 1:26:20 PM Eastern
Standard Time,  
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

They just didn't seem as ....'strong' <g> - sorry
don't know how to  quantify it.

and Anner Whitehead responds: C.S. Harrison refered to
it as a plant demonstrating some interest in  the
matter of its own survival. 
 


Yes! 
And along those lines... about ten years ago, I had
planted quite a few irises [and other plants] on the
back corner of a building lot that was a half hour
drive from my home. Busy with plantings at home and
with "matters of my own survival" [making a living,
etc.], I gave those poor plants (at the building lot),
nothing more than my good intentions. So, as I
mentioned ten years have passed, and now we've been
living on that former building lot since June of 2005.
Just this past weekend, I finally got out there with a
scythe (with a heavy brush blade) and started clearing
the blackberries (taller than I am), poison ivy, tall
grass and weeds. Wow! There are still some irises
alive in there! Not many... but I'll have to go back
to my old maps (scrawlings) and let you know which
ones "demonstrated some interest in the matter of
their own survival", and which weren't so determined.

CAN CAN RED (TB) and GOLDEN CHILD (SDB) are two of
them.
Among the survivors are also, a few IMMORTALITY X
SPARTAN seedlings and Iris cengialtii X pallida
variegata seedlings.

I post later a more detailed list of winners and losers.
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