Re: CULT: Trashing Irises
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Trashing Irises
- From: w*
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 16:09:41 -0500
- Priority: normal
On 13 May 01, at 12:16, Patrick Orr wrote:
> Walter,
>
> I have posted a photo I took of my Fogbound on IRIS PHOTOS. I want
> everyone to see what it looks like before you do any trashing.
Patrick, your slide is very clear and I can see all of the colors F is
supposed to have. I have watched it for two years here now and either don't
see or have comletely overlooked all of the nuances of color. Here
the blooms have good form as in the slide, but the color is a 'dull'
cream. The sun bleaches out the color before I can get outside to
take a look, I guess. I think WISHFUL THINKING, one of its parents,
is much better.
> HOWEVER, I have been reading a lot of how FOGBOUND has been throwing some
> really pretty seedlings in pastel shades. . .
I have not been working in that area or with reverse neglectas/bicolors.
Oh, I did made a cross with CROWNED HEADS.
> It just kills me to know someone it throwing it out when I am trying to
> increase it so I have lots of bloom and pollen to work with :)
I am sorry to disappoint you. I recall pulling up DUTCH TREAT while
in bloom the year after it was introduced. Just not my iris. I
didn't give it two years in the garden.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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