Re: CULT: talkers introductions & 'Mart irises

Hi Mike,
  You can send me a box of intros.  I promise i wont
torture them. LOL
Michelle who has bloom stocks rising above the foliage
now(very exciting)


--- Mike Sutton <suttons@lightspeed.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> 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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