CULT: talkers introductions & 'Mart irises

Mike Sutton very bravely sent me a big box of their introductions last
year to see how they would do here. I did try to talk him out of it - I
hate to see a good plant treated that way <g>  Several were trashed
pretty badly by the winter and the foliage on all looks pretty bad, but
HOOKEM HORNS (TB SA) has bloomed like mad in spite of everything. 
AGATHA CHRISTIE (IB) looks the best, and HONEY SCOOP (TB SA) managed a
bloomstalk.  Mike also sent me some reblooming sibling seedlings to
torture.  All of them lost their terminal buds to fall freezes, but one
managed a bloom (which Mike thinks is ugly but has some true red
pigment, but I think is kinda pretty, with no red atall!) and I have
never seen such foliage on the new increases.  Mike, these things have
shot out of the ground once it warmed up and the foliage is like...
Yucca leaves is the closest thing I can think of.  Not a bug bite or
disease spot in sight, heavy, rigid, BIG leaves, in spite of heat and
beginnings of dry again.  The only other irises in the garden with
leaves that feel like that (tho much smaller) are on the P. Brown
rebloomers that I got last year.  I suspect these would not have lost
their terminal buds if they hadn't been actively growing when they
arrived here and went into the early November hard freeze that way.

And Walter Moores keeps bravely sending me his babies to torture -
CONFEDERATE ROYALTY has been blooming its head off - three stalks on a 2
yr plant.  They were messed up by the weather - tall skinny stalks and
small flowers, but they are growing well and have flowers!  ASCII ART
continues to do well and the new for me GOLD REPRISE has a bloom this
year, in spite of the weather.

Best bloom this year was on three spectacular, huge clumps of WalMart's
"PORTRAIT OF LARRIE" which turned out to be VICTORIA FALLS.  And for a
change, in keeping with those in more hospitable environments, some of
them fell over this year in high winds.

Two other 'Mart irises labelled "GLAZED ORANGE" were stunted stalks of
gold flowers.  

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA


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