HYB:Mixed blessings

This year has been interesting so far.  As the title says, with mixed  
blessings.  The season is something like two weeks EARLY in my  garden.  Which means 
I'll have nothing left for the show.  But that's  okay by me cause I'm more 
into the pollen daubing anyway.   
 
Early hot weather meant that some of the irises grew to fast and too  tall.  
When the winds hit . . . they never let up really, many stalks hit  the 
ground.  
 
Some of my best rebloom crosses have plastic like substance and good  form!   
Some of those same seedlings grew too  short!   One parent rebloomed like mad 
last fall, but seems  to be having a height problem.  Like I said . . . mixed 
 blessings! 
 
1620-02, my bitone ruffled blue from last year . . . (love of my life) now  
has a wide light band on the falls!  But the hard rains shredded the  bloom!  
 
1922-1 is a bee pod from 1026-1re, a pretty Jessie's Song x Earl of Essex  
seeding that grew too short until I moved out here.  Only reason I planted  the 
seed was because it was a slow year!  I was thrilled to see a couple of  nice 
strong seedlings.  One stalk grew almost 4 ft tall with perfect  branching!  
Cool!  Then the buds started to show.  It's  red!  How can that be/bee?  A 
check of the garden map shows red irises  all around it.  It could be from any one 
of about 6 different reds . . .  all rebloomers.  It's open today.  Red with 
haft lines.   AND?  nice round falls.  A bit beat up by the rains, but nice.   

Many seedlings that were ho-hum last year are looking better this  year.  
Some are a lot bigger blooms too.  Here is 1709-1re.  It  has some of the tallest 
foliage in the garden.  It's from Summer Radiance X  Visiting Royalty.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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If you  don't cross them, you can't  plant them! 
Betty W. in South-central  KY Zone 6 ---
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