Re: CULT: TB: tough late plicatas?
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: TB: tough late plicatas?
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 09:31:03 -0600
> From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>
> Anybody in difficult growing areas have any good, tough, later blooming
> blue/purple plicatas to recommend? Something more recent than STEPPING
> OUT that grows better than SO does in this general area? I don't
> particularly like plicatas, but wanted to make some crosses with one &
> discovered I don't have anything late (ML to L).
Linda,
MODERN CLASSIC (Knocke, 1975) is a later blooming TB plicata with very
attractive form (far in advance of its time, IMO). It was a slow increaser
and rather shy bloomer for me, but it might do better in your area. It was
bred in either New Jersey or Michigan (Dr. Knocke moved from one to the
other, and I am not sure of the timing relative to when he hybridized MC).
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2, AHS Zone 7)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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