Re: HYB: try again - CELEBRATION SONG offspring?
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: try again - CELEBRATION SONG offspring?
- From: L* M*
- Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:53:03 -0700
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From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>
Cindy Rust in Missouri wrote:
> We have not used Celebration Song in hybridizing yet, because we reset it
> quite late last year and it did not bloom this year. We will use it
> because
> we like the color, form, branching and the fact that it is from a
> reblooming
> parent. But, we will likely be using it in directions that nobody else on
> this list has; we will be breeding it down and using it with species.
What a great idea! Please make some crosses with variegata for me!
Select some nice tall indestructibles with who cares what colors. I
daubed some of its prolific pollen on HONORABILE, but didn't get any
takes. But I haven't had a good vigorous clump of HONORABILE growing
where I don't mind letting it pod. Next year...
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
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