Re: TB: CULT: Blyth cultivars?

Hi Jan and all,
So Jan , you are going to wait patiently for Lily My Love to increase...No
Problems, I will be happy to supply a bit in your swap list...:) It is very
pretty. I have ordered Crazy For You this year as I like the stripey
patterns and the similar colours to Lily. Gaelic Gig has been very colourful
here, not wishy washy, but very strong bright colours. Perhaps my red soil
has something to do with this fact as a lot of my irises often bloom with
richer colours than the breeders suggests. Either way it suits my wild
bright garden. I have ordered Epicentre from Collen this year as my last
one from R.R. passed away. Perhaps I should follow suit and pot their irises
up as you have done , otherwise I find they shrivel up here into little hard
rocks.Yes I do water them but,,hmmm? Colleen's should suit my climate a
little better. I really like the stripes in Epicentre.Isn't odd but I have
had the most major luck never to suffer the rot brigade here...Hope I
haven't mozzed self now..By the way what variety are those irises that are
often sold as "perrenial irises". I have bought a few over the years and
they give me so much pleasure with their ferocious bloom and variety of
colours? Any one out there in Aus know? I am curious as to what they are
really called. As to whats going to bloom soon: Blue for You has no
increases but a whopppingly huge bloom stalk, one unknown, must be blue but
the wind blew its label out. I will soon know though.Honky Tonk Blues has
sent up a few spikes goody goody...Taja, Rare Treat has bloom stalk,
Stormbringer has too, oh life is good today...:)Hope this finds all the
Aussies enjoying a brilliant spring.. Regards Wendy
Sargeant.wendon@dcsi.net.au Aus Zone 8ish.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
To: <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: CULT: Blyth cultivars?


> Colleen wrote:
> >I've got Passiona ? swap.
> You're on! And I am going to sit back patiently and covet Wendy's LILY MY
> LOVE until it increases enough for a swap. I can't warm to Gaelic Jig
> though. It reminds me of Witching, which has 15 stalks of yuck coloured
> blooms about to open.
>
> >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.
>
> I know what you mean. I'm sure the new neighbors on both sides think I'm a
> crazy lady, hopping around the garden with my camera, or my pen, paper,
> plastic labels, etc., or bending over close with my tweezers. (I can just
> see them with their binoculars pressed to the window ..."what on earth is
> she doing now? Looks like she has a pair of tweezers and she is fiddling
> around with the flower...." :-)
>
> >The first blooms from my previous years seedlings just popped today.
>
> I have been getting some nice seedlings from CHERRY CHILD X YES, with
> ruffled and flared form and good substance, however they look very much
like
> Barry Blythes IB introductions from 5 or 6 years ago. (In the Mist, Mystic
> Potion etc.)I might test some for fertility.
>
> >However I'm finding that a lot of my early blooms have low bud counts and
> >not just my seedlings cf last year.
>
> Same here. Many of my SDB's have given me only 1 bloom per stem.
> I did an extensive bud check today. I'm very excited to see buds on
LAVENDER
> PARK, RUSTLE OF SPRING, SCENTED BUBBLES, MIND READER, among many others.
> Woohoo!
>
> >Wouldn't you know it, Saturday is our first garden show/sale for the
season
> >and rain is forcast. Grrrr!
> Hope it goes well and the rain holds off until the end of the day.
> Cheers, Jan
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