CULT: # cultivars here, by decade
- Subject: CULT: # cultivars here, by decade
- From: Linda Mann l*@volfirst.net
- Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:25:20 -0400
Instead of collecting the latest and most interesting cultivars, my
'collection' is mostly the 'tough ones', for my climate, that are
affordable. I don't believe that historic irises have any great
advantage of toughness over newer cultivars, but the older they are, the
less expensive (usually), and they sometimes (but NOT always) give an
idea of which lines used by current hybridizers are more likely than
others to be tough enough to thrive here.
So, just for fun, I sorted the most recent version of my database to see
how many cultivars from different eras have lived well enough to survive
here.
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Number of cultivars growing here as of Aug 2001 (don't have anything
entered in the database for this year yet)
Decade of registration No of cultivars
2000-present 2
1990-1999 197
1980-1989 165
1970-1979 70
1960-1969 44
pre 1960 73
total 551
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Cultivars more than 3 years old are usually priced low enough and have
gotten enough comment on performance that I will gamble and buy a few.
More recent ones are usually bonuses; club order plants (donated to
members in exchange for future increase); swaps; and gifts.
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
Tennessee Whooping Crane Walkathon:
<http://www.whoopingcranesovertn.org>
American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
iris-talk/Mallorn archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-talk/>
iris-photos/Mallorn archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-photos/>
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