Re: Re: HYB: dwarfs in hot climates?
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: dwarfs in hot climates?
- From: d*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 02:38:33 EST
In a message dated 10/29/02 8:58:44 AM Eastern Standard Time,
lmann@volfirst.net writes:
> <why don't all hybridizers ...work on ....dwarfs ..that don't need a
> winter? ;-) Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium
> Chair and Director, in warm, winterless Los Angeles->
>
> Or don't fry and die in hot dry summers?
>
> Are there any?
>
Ben Hager in hot, sunny, Stockton, California worked for many years to
develop dwarf irises that would do well in his climate. I am not sure which
ones of his fit that goal, since I grow dwarf irises in the frozen north. In
fact, we had a little snow today.
Dorothy Willott in Northern Ohio, Zones 5/6
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