Re: TB: Bloom
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- Subject: Re: TB: Bloom
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@cache.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 08:28:39 -0600 (MDT)
Hi Linda!
> Jeff Walters in Utah wrote:
> <The first TB of the year bloomed here today - the old, sunfast, bright
> yellow FOXFIRE (E. Fox, 53).
You wrote:
> Now that sounds like my kind of iris. Does anybody know if it is as good
a
> grower in more humid climates and in the 'spring freeze' zone?
The address of the hybridizer, Edwin Fox, is given as Memphis, Tennessee in
the 1959 AIS Checklist - humid? Yes; Frost pocket? perhaps not, but FOXFIRE
has come through a very difficult spring here where over half of my TBs are
showing frost damage to the stalks with no apparent distress.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (Zone 4)
cwalters@cache.net
