Re: Re; iris heights
- Subject: Re: Re; iris heights
- From: e*@kkeka.ericsson.se
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 96 01:09:38 MST
I would like to add a question to the discussions below;
when you have created a new iris hybrid who decides
which category it shall belong to ??
Gunnar Andersson, Sthlm/Sw
>
> Tom T. Little writes...
>
> >There's always some TBs that fall in the
> >BB height, some IBs less than 15 inches, and so on down the
> >line. Seldom if ever do any grow taller than the registered
> >height.
> >
> >So I'm wondering--what are your experiences? Are the registered
> >heights pretty much "on the money"? a little high? a little low?
>
> With very few exceptions, iris in my garden are shorter across the board
> than their registered heights. TBs stretch up to border size, MTBs grow to
> IB heights, the IBs would make you proud as SDBs and so on down the line.
> And yet, and yet... about 15 percent of all classes grow to registered
> height or exceed it despite all. In WELL prepared, virgin soil, in the
> second year after planting nearly all classes perform 'up to the book.'
> >From there on it is down hill all the way.
>
> Ever notice, many display and commercial gardens will 'hill up' the iris
> beds until they are about 4 to 8 inches above the walkways? You come away
> from that experience much dissatisfied with the 'home crowd' iris. Also, in
> sharp contrast to backyard gardeners, display and commercial enterprises
> grow iris in soil that is new to iris by; rotation, importation or
> sterilization. All these methods encourage supermaximum growth.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mike Lowe, Virginia, USA
