Re: AIS: OKC part 1 - Section meetings
From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>
Sorry Gary. I should have checked. I remember being puzzled. I may have
missed something in between. Maybe he said something about getting a yellow
on his first try and my brain made the link to Butter and Sugar because he
mentioned it as the first yellow. Anybody else go to the siberian session?
Maureen Mark
m*@ottawa.com
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4) -- still recovering from convention fatigue but
we're in peak SDB bloom.
> From: GWhite & LRader <bentfork@navix.net>
>
> Mark, Maureen wrote:
>
> >
> > SIBERIAN IRIS SOCIETY -- Bob Hollingworth
> >
> > Bob spoke about recent breakthroughs in siberians and his current
> > hybridizing program.
> >
> > Yellows count as a recent breakthrough. When Bob embarked on the search
> for
> > a yellow, he got Butter & Sugar on his first round. It has taken him 13
> > years to get to his second -- HELLO YELLOW introduced this year. The
> goal
> > for yellow has been non-fading color. It seems that this year there are
> a
> > number of introductions that may have achieved this goal.
>
> I'm not sure what you meant by "on the search for a yellow, he got
> Butter &
> Sugar on his first round", but Butter & Sugar was hybridized by Dr.
> Currier
> McEwen and introduced in 1977. Perhaps it was a different cultivar he was
> referring to?
>
> Gary White, Lincoln, Nebraska
> Its a glorious day today, the IBs are in full bloom, but still have a few
> SDBs
> and even MDBs blooming, as well as a few early TBs, and several siberians
> have
> buds showing.
>
>
>
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