Re: TB:Strong reds/browns/variegata's etc.
- Subject: Re: TB:Strong reds/browns/variegata's etc.
- From: z*@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:09:32 -0500
From: z88keys@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
>From: StorYlade@aol.com
>
>Talkers,
>
>With all this talk of strong growing, well performing irises, I'd like to add
>another thread. I have a problems growing browns, reds, or variegatas well.
>Sob, sob, sob.
>
>I see some of the lovely brownish things, but when they are in my garden they
>decline. Decline to bloom much, or in proportion, or more than one year in a
>row. Decline to live.
>
>Point? What grows well for others in these color classifications?
>
>Betty in Bowling Green KY--trying to figure the weight load of a few hundred
>pots on the roof.
>
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Betty: I have a blendee variegata seedling that does real well here, tall
and large. But I have a gorgeous, gorgeous heavily laced coffee-brown,
that is very slow of growth. It is out of GRACE THOMAS. It is fertile, and
I hope some seedling will be like it but grow gfaster. Lloyd Zurbrigg in
Durham NC
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