Re: Luminata list
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Luminata list
- From: Arnold Koekkoek k*@mtcnet.net
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:48:58 -0500
Margie: From what's been said on the list in regard to your project, it sounds like you have a lot of work ahead of you. Best wishes. I don't know how you are defining "TRUE" luminata, but here are 2 oldies that the late Larry Harder--an iris expert if ever there was one--called luminatas. They are very similar in appearance, both have a sweet, Concord grape fragrance, are tall, stems on the thin side by modern standards (though both stand up very well), small flowers (again by modern standards), have a small number of blooms per stalk (once more, as judged by today's standards), and both are pretty good growers that form a clump quite rapidly. Color: med. purple to lavender, with the white heart area of a luminata. ALADDIN'S WISH (Murawska, 1943) and PRETTY PANSY (Sass, 1955) There's also MOONLIT SEA (Sass, 1942), which I haven't seen bloom yet--just got it last year--but Superstition Gardens' catalog described it as the prototype of luminatas, "rich indigo-blue with gold in the center and gold variegations throughout, unique color pattern even today...."
Arnold
Arnold & Carol Koekkoek
38 7th Street, NE
Sioux Center, IA 51250
e-mail koekkoek@mtcnet.net
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