Re: Re: AIS: spurias

On Thursday, November 27, 2003, at 06:18  AM, Donald Eaves wrote:


John Reeds writes:
most of us could care less about, even narrow, strappy things not of any
interest to mainstream iris growers. Which could have something to do
with

the lack of popularity of spurias.  They are easy enough (at least for

me),

but look a lot like a cheap dutch iris.
LOL! I took some TB seedlings to work so the ladies could see the result of
my frequent excuse for being late during daubing time. A week or so later I
took some spuria stalks. Most everyone liked them, at least one more than
the TBs, but one lady said they looked 'starved'. I like them a lot myself.
Cheap dutch iris???? Spurias have multiple blooms, wider range of colors, larger flowers, sturdier, taller stalks, are easier to grow, and have a longer vase life than dutch iris...

Geeeze <grin>

John | "There be dragons here"
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