Re: TB: CULT: Blyth cultivars?

Jan

I've got Passiona ? swap.

My first new seedling for the year is about to flower Scented Bubbles x
Epicentre. I get very excited and check the garden about 3 times a day (work
permitting) this time of year.

The first blooms from my previous years seedlings just popped today. However
I'm finding that a lot of my early blooms have low bud counts and not just
my seedlings cf last year. Yes has only 3-4 buds per stem. I'm putting it
down to the sudden switch from mid winter to late spring weather conditions.

Wouldn't you know it, Saturday is our first garden show/sale for the season
and rain is forcast. Grrrr!
Jesse's Song is flowering madly all over the place. I've never known it to
flower so early.

Colleen Modra
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Clark <janclarx@hotmail.com>
To: iris-talk@egroups.com <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, 4 October 2000 6:22
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: CULT: Blyth cultivars?


>Colleen writes:
>>I'm surprised Tomorrows Child gives you problems
>
>Not a bloom after 3 years. Maybe this year? It always looks as if it tried,
>but the stalk aborted. Probably a frost problem. When we shift I think I
>will grow my early irises into the afternoon sun, and my late ones facing
>the morning sun, and see if it makes a difference.
>
>>Aztec Burst does well and I use it for hybridizing early bloomers.
>
>It generally outgrows the rot here, and blooms prolifically. I love it, and
>have used it for some nice IB crosses (about to bloom). I lost a lot to rot
>this year, including one I planted in a pot.
>
>>I think Aura Light is a very dirty yellow.
>Isn't it funny the differences? Mine is beautifully clean, and sparkling. A
>real dazzler. It grows a bit short and crowded though.
>
>>Witching(yuck colour)
>Oh I agree! Affaire isn't much better. From the Picture, GAELIC JIG looks
>like another of the same. I was almost happy to see Chocolate Vanilla die
of
>rot - such a mucky colour here.
>My CHERRY CHILD X CHOCOLATE VANILLA, and CHERRY CHILD X YES seedlings are
>throwing up the same mucky colours. Everything looks as if it has been
>dipped in coffee.
>
>>In general I also find that Keppel stuff doesn't do well for me (Crowned
>>Heads seems to be doingOK after 6 months) but Ghio stuff is mostly good.
>>Schreiners some good, some not.
>
>Much the same experience here. I do seem to be able to grow Grosvenors
>irises here, but put this down to using the Walter Moores pot method to
>start them off. I actually had more success with his, than with Tempo Two's
>last season. I have heard that a lot have trouble growing Grosvenor's
irises
>in Vic.
>
>Barry Blyth has some interesting and varied IB plicatas this year, from
>Epicentre. I was planning on doing some crosses myself, with plicata SDB's
>and Epicentre, which should bloom shortly. So far it looks as if I will
have
>to save the SDB pollen, or I will miss out.
>
>Cheers, Jan
>(Tempted to buy Barry's PASSIONA out of nostalgia for the soft drink I
>consumed in vast quantities as a child)
>
>
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