Re: Re: CULT: # of cultivars here, by decade
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: # of cultivars here, by decade
- From: g*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:44:15 EDT
In a message dated 10/1/02 8:12:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
oneofcultivars@aol.com writes:
> Actually what I want to look at is death rates between historics and moderns
> grown in our part of the world.
>
> More would be gained statistically by comparing selection by pedigrees to
> irises previously reported as "good" in posts from growers in our area.
>
I think we need to change this to all areas east of the Mississippi. First
we have humidity and secondly we have borer. Again when you drive by houses
in the spring look at their gardens and see what is the biggest survivor in
the neighborhood.
Here I have an unnamed BB that I call My Mothers Iris that is a plain Edith
Wolford type, must be older cultivar. Another that I see everywhere is
yellow with a beet red fall. I can't ID them as there are too many
similars. I know it is not Supreme Sultan. But this spring I will ring
doorbells when I get out of my garden.
Several years ago, someone mentoned the Buttricks in Concord Ma were
hybridizers and I would like to follow some of their cultivars seeing as how
this is in my back yard. I haven't see any listed in catalogs I looked at.
Does anyone know? The thread is that these were grown under our conditions
of moisture all summer and the borer.
Doreen F. McCabe
Westford, Ma
gardenhous@aol.com
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