Re: Re: Mesmerizer - AIS Bulletin Cover

Here's my version

Not a great grower for me, Holy Fire does much better

Colleen Modra
Adelaide Hills
South Australia  Zone 8/9

www.impressiveirises.com.au
irises@senet.com.au
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From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>
To: <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: Mesmerizer - AIS Bulletin Cover


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> On 5 Nov 2002 at 23:35, Patrick Orr wrote:
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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.
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>    If the cover picture for the Bulletin was taken at a convention garden
in
> Memphis, then it was likely on a two year plant.
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> > 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.
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>    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.
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> Can someone post  a picture of the 'real' MESMERIZER to iris-photos?
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> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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