Re: Re: narrow strappy irises

Christy,

> I've been wondering if some of these "uglies" could be used to breed
toward
> a "spider" type TB........

You could probably count me in on acquiring them.  I love a wide variety of
forms in what I'm looking at in the garden.  And I'm nearly always out of
step with the norm on things.  I would think here a strongly flaring iris
with substance like steel done in spidery form would be very nice for
contrast.  But I'm thinking really narrow here.  Like the so-called spider
lilies.

> I know that when the first spider daylilies made their debut the reaction
> was to compost them

They have always been my favorite of the daylilies - by a lot actually.
Unfortunately I haven't been successful at growing them.  Or any daylily for
that matter.  A foolproof plant for so many folks and one that I've been
bombing out one for about 30 years.

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA

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