Re: HYB: dwarfs in hot climates?
- Subject: Re: HYB: dwarfs in hot climates?
- From: "irischap" i*@netscape.net
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 03:46:46 -0000
--- In iris-talk@y..., dwiris@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 10/29/02 8:58:44 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> lmann@v... 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
>
>
I wonder if you could have any success with the MDBs that have been
developed from SDB parents. Coral Carpet. Humbug and Forever Violet
are three of mine that are from SDB breeding and may do well in hot
climates. A number of Hager's MDBs are also of this type and may also
do ok in hot climates.
Chuck Chapman
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