HYB: Linda's "Exciting Pink" and Seasonal Thoughts

In a message dated 5/3/2007 1:26:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
lmann@lock-net.com writes:

<<Not open yet.  Deep pink in bud from MISSOURI MIST X  pale pink: (BEHOLD 
A LADY x CELEBRATION SONG).

What I'd hoped for,  but didn't really expect to get.>>
 
Are you going to tell us what happened? Is it open? Did it eventuate  into 
anything interesting, or pretty? Are you delighted beyond speech? I did  not see 
anything in the Photos archives. Did I just miss it?
 
I may gravitate hypnotically toward tailored art shades, but I do  like me a 
pretty modern pink, too. That said, did it have a tolerable  odor? Some pinks 
do not. OVATION as I grew it could make your eyes  water in a closed room. It 
utterly put my boxwoods to shame. 
 
I've got bloom on some bearded historics now, but whereas the  blossoms are 
all normally configured, it looks to me like they are  running on the small 
side, and the diploid stems look thinner. There  is not much snaking or 
collapsing, although several stalks are keeling  over: a combination of several days of 
wind with gusts to  25, a good soaking rain following a burst of heat, and 
having  been reset late last season... I guess. 
 
One of the leaners is the magnificent claret that Phil Edinger and I  both 
found --meaning it was on both USA coasts-- and he has firmly  identified as 
VOLTIGEUR, a Cayeux from 1934. It looks like  a much classier INDIAN CHIEF, and 
grows beautifully. Superb  iris.
 
Henry and I made a shunpike excursion up to Charlottesville  Saturday to play 
in some nurseries and used book stores. The weather  was what the Irish call 
"soft," meaning cool and misty, and all  the farm irises looked just fine. I 
was rather surprised, frankly,  since there is an area midway which is solidly, 
if erratically, zone  6, and they have seen some odd weather this season. The 
farm roses looked  good as well, including that snowball viburnum they call 
the Guelder  rose. I don't know which one it is. The floral arranging crowd 
around  here use it with native columbine when it is in its chartreuse  pompom 
phase. 
 
"PomPom" might be a name for that double bearded seedling now  appearing on 
Photos, although I personally prefer "Wooly Bully". Wonder  if it has been 
used...that might not go over too well, though; there was  some talk about that 
song... I forget just why. "Twirling Tassels" could  be good, too, but you know 
that wouldn't float. Heh.
 
Cordially,
 
 
Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA  Zone 7
Jamestown Expedition and Settlement Quadricentennial May,1607- May,  2007
"At one time...it was all Virginia." 

 
 
 
 
 
 





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