Re: ot-bio new guy
- Subject: Re: ot-bio new guy
- From: M* M*
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:42:17 -0500
From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>
Hi Chris,
Whereabouts is Blainville? There are three excellent iris growers in
Quebec. Borealiris is in Chelsea and has an excellent catalogue with colour
pictures of beardless iris. They have a large number of the newer siberian
iris. Iris & Plus is located north and east of Montreal (I don't remember
exactly where) and has both bearded and beardless but no photos in the
catalogue. Tony Huber is a noted hybridizer that has successfully crossed
I. versicolor and I. ensata. His new iris that he calls biversatas are
gaining prominence. You can check the archives for past discussions on
these iris. He is located near Montreal.
The only address that I have on hand is:
Borealiris
Jean-Marc Boileau
Box 592 Deschenes Road
Chelsea Que
J0X 1NO
(819) 827-2592
Your first question has been answered and I believe that you can check the
archives for discussions on freezing pollen. If I recall correctly, crosses
have been successful using frozen pollen later the same season. I don't
think anyone has tried crosses with one-year old frozen pollen.
Maureen Mark
m*@ottawa.com
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4) -- where we had a brief thaw yesterday and the white
mulch on the beds is now about four feet high.
> ----------
> From: Chris Darlington[SMTP:chris.darlington@sympatico.ca]
> Reply To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 11:55 PM
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] ot-bio new guy
>
> From: Chris Darlington <chris.darlington@sympatico.ca>
>
> Hello iris experts,
> I'm new to the world of irises , last year I decided
> to rescue my Mother's iris patch that had long since stopped blooming ,
> her answer to the lack of blooms was to run over them with the lawn
> mower , these irises bloomed for years and years and were never tended
> to , on top of that they were planted in clay which made me all the
> more curious to see if I could get them to bloom again. I have very
> distant memories of seeing them in bloom as a child and remember saying
> to myself that they were too beautiful to be a local wild flower. My
> only goal in the iris world last summer was to get these rhizomes
> healthy again , which in my opinion was a success. The hard part now is
> the waiting for the snow to melt to see if the stalks go up. It'll be
> like immortalizing my distant memories from two decades ago. I'm also
> curious to see if the blooms look as I imagined them , I'm sure it's a
> historic.
>
> Anyway , sorry for all of that , I'd like to ask a few basic questions:
>
> 1)It's still winter here is Quebec ,zone 5b , I bought TB rhizomes last
> weekend and wonder if I could get them started in pots indoors and
> transfer them outdoors when it warms considerably. Any chance of them
> blooming the first year if they're blooming size rhizomes ?
>
> 2) Has anybody on the list had any success performing crosses with
> previously frozen antlers ?
>
> 3)Are there any Canadian online catalogues with photos besides
> Mcmillen's that I could order from? Canada seems to be weak in the area
> and ordering from the states can be mighty expensive .
>
> So far , this is what I expect to bloom for the first time in my tiny
> garden.
>
> pumila , Golden Fair , Lavender Sparkle ,Azurea , and Violet
> IB: Appleblossom
> TB.Lake Placid , Interpol , Vandal Spirit ,Wines Rose, and some unknowns
> that I purchased without identity tags.
>
> Waiting patiently for the sun,
> Christopher Darlington
> Blainville , Quebec
>
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