Re: Re: HYB: dwarfs in hot climates?

In a message dated 10/30/02 7:47:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
irischapman@netscape.net writes:


> > > <why don't all hybridizers ...work on ....dwarfs ..that don't need a
> > >             winter?    ;-)    Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium
> > > Chair and Director, in warm, winterless Los Angeles->
> > > 
> > > Or don't fry and die in hot dry summers?
> > > 
> > > Are there any?
> > > 
> > 
> > Ben Hager in hot, sunny, Stockton, California worked for many years to 
> > develop dwarf irises that would do well in his climate.  I am not
> sure which 
> > ones of his fit that goal, since I grow dwarf irises in the frozen
> north.  In 
> > fact, we had a little snow today.
> > 
> > Dorothy Willott in Northern Ohio, Zones 5/6
> > 
> > 
> I wonder if you could have any success with the MDBs that have been
> developed from SDB parents. Coral Carpet. Humbug and Forever Violet
> are three of mine that are from SDB breeding and may do well in hot
> climates. A number of Hager's MDBs are also of this type and may also
> do ok in hot climates.
> 
> Chuck Chapman
> 
> 

Hager's Melrose Gardens lies 3 miles away here in Zone 9+. These Chapman Iris 
do well here under near identical conditions of climate and soil.

Best: Apache Carpet (Reb),Black Ice , Coral Carpet , Cream Pixie , Eramosa 
Skies, Forever Blue(Reb) , and Wizard of Hope (reb).

VG: Heather Carpet , Herbal Tea, Party Animal , and Ruby Eruption.

Others may do better their second year.

Maybe Dana Brown will chime in here with what survives in Lubbocks 110 degree 
summers and Harsh panhandle winters...

Cathy Campi, Stockton Ca  168 days since rain...


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