Re: Re: Mesmerizer - AIS Bulletin Cover
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: Mesmerizer - AIS Bulletin Cover
- From: "wmoores" w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 06:10:53 -0600
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On 5 Nov 2002 at 23:35, Patrick Orr wrote:
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> I
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> The judges handbook states that an iris should be viewed in many
> gardens and observed for 2 years. That means two bloom seasons.
> Well, perhaps after the first year it might acclimate and do well for
> you. At the conventions, the irises are all grown for two years, and
> that is where a lot of judges happen to be "observing." If this cv.
> does as well back east the second year as it does out here during the
> first season, then it will get a lot of votes at the conventions.
If the cover picture for the Bulletin was taken at a convention garden in
Memphis, then it was likely on a two year plant.
> Go ahead, give it a try for a couple years. See if it acclimates for
> you? I know some people in the East are actaully getting good bloom
> from it. I hear Lloyd Zurbrig is using it extensively in his
> hybridizing, so it apparently works well for him there.
I think there are as many micro climates up East and down South as there are in
the West.and mine is not one favorable for MESMERIZER. I couldn't get it to live
for two years, and that is why I never voted for it. The picture on the bulletin cover
is not the picture of ' the best iris of the year,' in my opinion. I am sure there are
better pictures of this subject available. This one might be mistaken for a pinwheel.
Can someone post a picture of the 'real' MESMERIZER to iris-photos?
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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