Re: FW: TB: Cult: Birds, early bloom

Hi, Fred -- Can you post a picture of that seedling so we can see the pattern combination? -- Griff
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To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [iris] FW: TB: Cult: Birds, early bloom



One season I had a lot of bird damage from mocking birds and white crown
sparrows. The damage by the mocking birds was by tearing up the standards. The 
sparrows just seemed to land on the flowers leaving claw marks. Not too
serious, but no show prospects either. I still have the same birds but no damage. I don't know why. I now keep a bird feeder well stocked. The white crowns love 
it, but mocking birds do not use it at all.
I am now getting a few blooms on last year's maiden bloom. (No bloom yet on this year's maiden bloom or on the named varieties.) This would be classed as very, very early bloom here, but I wonder if it is in fact very late rebloom from the year before. One seedling, which was not selected, was one of the first to bloom last year as well. It is the first seedling I have had that is 
both the Emma Cook pattern and a plicata (not to be confused with amoena
plicatas like Snowbrook).

Fred  Kerr
Rainbow Acres



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