Re: CULT
- Subject: Re: CULT
- From: P* D*
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:42:44 -0600
From: "Perry Dyer" <pdyer@flash.net>
Carryl:
Appreciated your comments regarding Starship Enterprise. That "artist's
rendition" is very special to me, which I will (try to) briefly share.
By the way, I may be mistaken, but I believe the seedling you saw in
California IS Starship Enterprise.
Back to my story.
I gave a judges training school and program in Salt Lake City last winter
(about this time last year). The artist of Starship Enterprise was in the
audience. Came up with the painting after the school to show what she had
been doing. She was somewhat of a novice at irises, but obviously not a
novice at painting. (FYI, if I'm not terribly mistaken, the shot in Tall
Talk is a picture of the full painting (Ruth Simmons, can you verify this?).
The cover of Schreiners' catalog a cropped version of it. She had painted
S.E. just for fun, and offered it to the Schreiners with only the exposure
of her work, and acknowledgement of her name, in return. I think the
Schreiners are very high on this iris, because of its breakthrough in color,
and in spite of its "faults", which (refreshingly) they freely admit right
there in the catalog. I think when this painting -- and this artist -- came
along, they thought it would be unique and very special to approach S.E.'s
release differently than the traditional "shot on the cover". Pretty
classy, if you ask me.
Anyhow, Ms. Drake had made the same type of offer to me, and wrote me
immediately after the school, once I got home. I was going to have her
paint Augusto Bianco's Murrah Memorial ('98 intro), the pure white we named
in memory of the souls who lost their lives in the bombing of the Murrah
Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City in April 1995. I was going to
donate the original to the Memorial Site that is being built, donate some
plants for a clump at the site, and have two copies made, one for me and one
for the originator in Italy (I introduce for Augusto B). Well, typical
Perry, I procrastinated, and put her letter in the stack with the others I
haven't answered.
You can imagine my horror when I get the Schreiners' flyer, advertising
S.E., giving the credit to Ms. Drake, and commenting on "her untimely death"
on July 5th, 1998. I'm just sick, for selfish reasons and other. I don't
know the details of her demise, but what a loss.
Perry Dyer
Oklahoma
-----Original Message-----
From: Carryl M. Meyer <carrylm@bigsky.net>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 6:33 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: CULT
>From: "Carryl M. Meyer" <carrylm@bigsky.net>
>
>Here in Montana in the Spring (we really do have one, if only for a day)
>when the temp is predicted to go to about 26-27, I do not even worry about
>covering the Iris--even the Aril-breds--and usually have no problem-- if
>the temp is going to 20-22--then I cover with a thick something--cardboard,
>heavy tarp-etc
>The time when I have problems and have buds frozen is when they are in
>heavy bud and the stalk is about 10-12" tall--then maybe one socket will be
>effected--and the others will bloom--
>I have discoveredthat most Iris are really hardier than we give them credit
>for--and sometimes when I had expected to have damage to the buds, this did
>not happen.
>Through the years I have grown at least a dozen different Aril-breds and
>find not much difference with their cold-hardiness than TB's--if the
>Aril-bred is at least 1/2 TB--and the frost damage to buds is no greater
>for them than for TB's
>The picture of 'Starship Enterprise' on the front of Schreiners is very
>similiar to the flower seen during the national meeting in Sacramento--but
>a photo is what we are used to seeing--even with some blues and purples not
>quite right--so we accept the photo as being correct and not the artist's
>rendition--Schreiner's probably paid a lot for the artist to paint the
>picture--and I think it is a lot closer to the flower than many other Iris
>paintings I have seen--any way--it sure is great--and a breath-taking
>flower!!!
>Carryl in western Montana--where the dandifords are finally peeking through
>the frozen ground!
>
>
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