Re: CULT: Trashing Irises
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Trashing Irises
- From: w*
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:16:47 -0500
- Priority: normal
On 13 May 01, at 15:18, merle & linda roberts wrote:
> Patrick,
> I can assure you that all successful hybridizers trash iris. It's the
> dark side of hybridizing that we don't always talk about with all iris
> lovers.
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> Merle
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> merle & linda roberts
> irisbuff@televar.com
I take most of the trashed named varieties to sales, or if I think
one is too horrid, I toss it across the fence and then later run over
the rhizomes with the lawnmower.
All culled seedlings are dug and then shredded by the lawnmower. I
used to let club members take seedlings when they were visiting the
garden, but I had too many of these culled seedlings show up next
year at the show by somebody who wanted to enter them. Or, I was
pestered for years by somebody who kept some wanting to know if I had
ever named them. Thank goodness for the riding lawnmower! No culled
seedling escapes it.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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