Re: HYB: DEBBIE REYNOLDS and TEAPOT TEMPEST
- Subject: Re: HYB: DEBBIE REYNOLDS and TEAPOT TEMPEST
- From: E* G*
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 18:51:21 -0000
--- In iris-talk@y..., patriciabrooks@c... wrote:
> What I'm wondering is whether anyone has had experience with the TB
> DEBBIE REYNOLDS and/or the BB TEAPOT TEMPEST. Both descriptions
> sound like good ones for my hybridizing objectives (pink TBs with
> pastel non-tangerine beards.) The Spoons' Winterberry Gardens 2001
> catalog (which I continue to recommend) describes DR as
> [peach-tinted light pink with light pink beards" and Aiken's
> describes TT as "sassy bright raspberry orchid, soft blue beards."
> Does anyone have them and have experience with their bloom and
> fertility? DR is (Schick '96) and TT is (Markham '99).
> Any and all information will be most helpful. Thanks!
Hi - I grow TEAPOT TEMPEST and it is very vigorous in the New England
climate (having been hybridized in Eastern MA by Lynn Markham). I do
not hybridize bearded irises but Lynn has used TT in breeding - I
think I have that right.
Ellen Gallagher / Berlin, NH,USA / Zone 3 (where the daffs just
start
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