Re: AB Query
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- Subject: Re: AB Query
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@digitalpla.net>
- Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 18:57:33 -0700 (MST)
Ann & Ernie Henson write:
> Can anyone tell us something about SIR GORDON? We purchased it about 3 or
4
> years ago It was identified as AB It is a HUGE orchid blue self
> ..lovely flower but the bloom stalk is only about 8" so it appears to be
> blooming on the ground. We had it planted with our Historics and last
fall
> we moved it to our new AB mound. I don't have a record of the hybridizer
> or the date. I'm not going to stop growing it but I wondered if I could
> get a few hints about what we're doing wrong or if this is the nature of
> this particular iris...Sharon...Rick...Lorraine...anybody?
SIR GORDON is a 1/4 AB from a cross of JANE PHILLIPS X CAPITOLA introduced
by Tell Muhlestein here in Utah in 1962 for the hybridizer, Flora McGee of
Sheffield, Alabama. The registration height is 34".
In my experience, extreme stunting of iris stalks is the result of frost
damage occurring at a sensitive stage of development when the stalk is just
emerging from the rhizome and is not even apparent yet within the fan. It
seems, again in my experience, that early season iris bred in warm
climates are more susceptible to this kind of damage. I had one TB (origin:
Texas) bloom last spring with the top of the standards of the normal size
flower exactly 6 inches above ground level.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@digitalpla.net
