TB: STINGRAY (was HYB: Using Good Plants)
- Subject: [iris] TB: STINGRAY (was HYB: Using Good Plants)
- From: Ellen Gallagher e*@yahoo.com
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:42:03 -0700 (PDT)
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
--- John Reeds <lamegardener@msn.com> wrote:
>>> .... Stingray is unlikely to produce any modern-looking
seedlings. It is tall and well-branched. It is also a
reblooming fool: I only have one stalk on it now, the fewest for
any week in the past year or two. <<<
John - it sounds like STINGRAY is a continuous bloomer for you
or was I reading this incorrectly? If so, no wonder TBs are the
class of choice in "warm, winterless ...So. Cal.".
>>> It is probably the least modern-looking iris in my
garden.<<<
And it was introduced in 1989 and is one of Byer's SAs.
Ellen (cold and rainy here - still have ONLY three crazy dwarfs
tht got mixed up after two days of sunshine last week...those
tons of buds will bloom - we know it :-)
=====
Ellen Gallagher <ellengalla@yahoo.com> / Berlin, New Hampshire / USDA Zone 3
Siberian-Species Iris Convention 2003, June 12-15 - Hamilton, ON Canada
http://w3.one.net/~wilsonjh/ssi.htm (Siberian iris pages)
http://www.crosswinds.net/~median/ (Median iris pages)
http://www.irisregister.com/ (AIS checklist data)
American Iris Society: www.irises.org
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