Re: SIB: Bloom season
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] SIB: Bloom season
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- Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:39:49 -0400
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From: "Chris Hollinshead" <cris@netcom.ca>
Sorry to hear that your I. typhifolia hasn't bloomed for you for all those
years, Bill. Seems strange... Anyway yes, the earliness of this iris is
typical here too. My typhifolia bloomed yesterday with about a dozen blooms
all opening up overnight. The bloom timing is as you describe, right with
the MTB's (the MTB iris BANGLES opened the same day along with a couple of
other MTB's) and well in advance with any of the other Siberians.
With regards to your results of BUTTER AND SUGAR x I.typhifolia crosses. You
don't mention the carry over of the typhifolia trait of the twisted
foliage... did that characteristic carry over in anything?
Christopher Hollinshead
Mississauga, Ontario Canada zone6b
AIS(Region 16), CIS, SSI
Director-Canadian Iris Society
Newsletter Editor-Canadian Iris Society
E-mail: cris@netcom.ca <c*@netcom.ca>
CIS website: http://www.netcom.ca/~cris/CIS.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Shear [B*@hsc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 13:35
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] SIB: Bloom season
>
>
> From: Bill Shear <BILLS@hsc.edu>
>
> When I. typhifolia was blooming for me (it hasn't in the last three years,
> despite several big clumps scattered around the garden) it would come in
> just with the MTBs and pumilas. This year I bloomed some seedlings of
> 'Butter and Sugar' X I. typhifolia, and they were the earliest
> Siberians to
> bloom in the garden, right about IB time. The seedlings, two blues and a
> white, were intermediate in almost all other respects between the two
> parents--and nothing to write home about. However, I think they could be
> "bred up" and selected until one had good flowers, foliage and stems on
> very early blooming plants. AT least the white one has set a number of
> volunteer pods.
>
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