Re: CULT: TB: tough late plicatas?
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: TB: tough late plicatas?
- From: I* I*
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 05:58:37 +0930
Linda
Classic Look is registered as a E-M but for me always blooms later. Very
clean color and extremely vigorous healthy plant with good increase.
Supposed to occassionally rebloom but never has for me.
Colleen Modra
Zone 8/9
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From: Jeff and Carolyn Walters <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, May 14, 2001 1:52 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: TB: tough late plicatas?
>> 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).
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>Linda,
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>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).
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>Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2, AHS Zone 7)
>jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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