Re: CULT: talkers introductions & 'Mart irises

Thank you for the update Linda,
I don't know if Walter and I are brave, stupid or just can't resist a
challenge!  Walter is probably brave, I am one of the other two, just not
sure which.  :-)
The fans turned out big and fat for you because I did cross some iris *with*
Yucca plants.  Didn't know it could be done did ya?  :-)  We have some Yucca
trees right up the hill and it was really easy to get pollen off of them.
(I hope you know that I am kidding)  That was one of the reasons I sent
those particular seedlings to you,  grows like Yucca here too.  Looks like
yucka.  The exceptional growers alwasy seem to be ugly.  *sigh*   Maybe we
can torture some more plants this year, you have any room?
Mike

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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.




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