Re: TB Almost Heaven & Halfway to Heaven

From: "Walter Moores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>

	>From: Randy Squires

	>Has anyone grown or seen these?
	>Pinks with blue beards,
	>Are they large ruffled flowers?
	>Has anyone made crosses with them?

	Randy, et. al.,

	I grow HALFWAY TO HEAVEN and recommend it highly.  For me, it is a 
large, delightfully ruffled orchid pink.  The beard is not entirely 
blue - only at the end, the rest of the beard towards the throat is 
tangerine.  A lot of the blue bearded pinks share this trait of only 
the end of the beard showing blue.  

	Dave Niswonger hybridized H T H and a lot of other 'blue bearded' 
pinks.  This iris one won an HM last year, so others have thought 
highly of it, too.  It is a very husky grower as well.

	Another 'blue bearded' pink is SHIRLEY M.  This is by Evelyn 
Kegerise. Phil Williams of Rocky Top Gardens writes the following in 
TALL TALK about S M.  "S M is head and shoulders above all the other 
'wanna be' blue-bearded pinks.  It has good color contrast, well 
formed flowers, surprisingly strong blue beards, good branching and 
bud count ... and the bloom is heavy and dependable.  Super plants."

	I ordered S M last year and am hoping to verify Phil's description 
when I see it bloom in my garden.


	Walter Moores
	Enid Lake, MS 7/8

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