Re: Re: HYB: hafts

Linda, if you like haft coloration, look at Sunny Shoulders.  It is an IB
white with a large bright yellow portion on the shoulders.  I got mine from
Cooleys in Oregon
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From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:07 AM
Subject: [iris] Re: HYB: hafts


> I always liked the different colored veins and tints on shoulders, or
> outside edges of the upper haft.  I thought that was the part of the
> fall people were talking about when they talked about haft  veining.
>
> I like shoulder veining, especially when it is a different color, wide,
> and dramatic, as on some of the older varieties.
>
> But I don't much care for all the busy mess of haft lines in the middle
> of the fall on so many newer varieties.  It detracts from the overall
> beauty on a lot of them.  If the lines don't extend all the way to the
> end of the beard, it doesn't bother me as much.
>
> On the other hand, sometimes the veins enhance the whole garden effect
> of the bloom from a distance.
>
> ANYTHING GOES is another name of a very busy one.
>
> Betty, I take it haft marks are hard to breed out?  I have an otherwise
> really nice garden impact weedy seedling that I wasn't going to try to
> take farther because the haft marks are so conspicuous - if I cross it
> with something with clean hafts, do I have a chance to get rid of them?
>
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