Re: CULT: HYB: black late spring freeze resistance?

Dark Passion did fine for me.  I think because it wasn't as far along as the others, a mid-season bloomer.  

I also had a seedling from Hello Darkenss x Good Show I have had for years that I have been using but not planted the seeds of yet.  It was completely unscathed even with the spathes just peeking out of the fan.  It's a nice dark purple with some brown shadings.  An impressinve flower.  I plan on trying even harder now to use it based on it's performance this Spring ....it is fertile with Dark Passion but I want more seeds that I got the first year!

Paul Archer
Raleigh, NC  Zone 8

-----Original Message-----
>From: Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com>
>Sent: Nov 13, 2007 9:06 AM
>To: iris@hort.net
>Subject: [iris] CULT: HYB: black late spring freeze resistance?
>
>[questions at the end]
>Several years ago, Jeff Walters, who was in Utah? Nevada? <?> at the 
>time, and I exchanged some of our best survivors.  Jeff was also in an 
>area with late spring freeze damage, but much colder winters, sometimes 
>with snow, and much drier in general.
>
>When it became apparent that what thrived for me, didn't for him, and 
>vice versa, we stopped trading.
>
>Except for a very retro near black red that I've been unable to 
>identify, purchased from one of our first rhizome sales as "CHERRY 
>SMOKE" which it obviously is <not>. Henceforth referred to as "NOT 
>cherry smoke".
>
>It is the most late spring freeze proof iris I grow, or was for years 
>(haven't had many late spring freezes that were really bad for several 
>years until the doozy this year! so haven't gotten to evaluate more 
>recent stuff).
>
>It sets bee pods freely here, producing offspring not as nice as it is, 
>but has refused to set pods with anything I've tried.  Jeff brought some 
><really> cute stalks from a cross of it with HELLO DARKNESS, and sent me 
>some seeds from NOT CS X ROMANTIC EVENING, too young to see bloom yet, 
>but thriving so far.
>
>So here's the question: For those of you who had severe late freeze 
>damage this spring or maybe went to Oklahoma convention where freeze 
>damage wasn't quite as bad as farther east and north, are there any 
>black or dark red irises that bloomed normally after the freeze?
>
>Jeff, you got pix of those cute babies you could post?
>
>-- 
>Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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