Re: MTB: Cherry Garden
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: MTB: Cherry Garden
- From: D* L* <g*@rogerswave.ca>
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 16:21:46 -0700 (MST)
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Sterling Okase wrote:
> Hi All,
> Cherry Garden is indeed registered as an SDB. But if the plant in question is
> really an MTB, it may be Cherry, a wonderful plicata MTB. R & I information
> is: CHERRY (M. Dunderman '89) MTB 23" M. S. almost solid violet; F. white,
> narrowly stitiched violet on edge, violet spot; dark brown beard tipped orange
> in center.
> Cherry grew like a weed for me and flowered it's fool head off every year. I
> think the color is more accurately a red-violet rather than a violet.
>
> IRIS MANIAC,
> Sterling (not Innerst)
> Seattle, WA. Zone 8
> paganpink@msn.com
Sterling,
I just got this last year so I don't know exactly what the blooms
look like but hope to check this coming summer. I will check if the
colours you suggest do indeed turn up. Thanks.
Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca> <- private email address
Zone 4/5 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
AIS, CIS, SIGNA, IRIS-L, Canadian Wildflower Soc.
URL for the North American Native Irises web page
http://molly.hsc.unt.edu/~rbarton/Iris/NANI.html