Re: [talk]HYB:Mixing colors

I think Renown is so disgusting here I haven't been tempted to use it.

I do like doing wide crosses or crosses between very different
breeding lines. Here's is a rather nice example.

Sneezy x Deja Blue.


Colleen Modra
Adelaide Hills AUST
zone 8/9

colleen@impressiveirises.com.au


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Subject: [iris] [talk]HYB:Mixing colors


> Several hybridizers, including Barry Blyth, are advising to 'mix up'
your
> colors. In other words, don't stick to white x white and bitone x
bitone.  If I
> understand the advice correctly???
>
> It's hard to know what you will get until you make a cross.  Robin
is
> getting interesting colors from her crosses with MATRIX.
>
> Anyone had experience using RENOWN with other colors?  I don't quite
know
> the terminology here . . . but does it color blend?  The ancestry is
purple and
> white.
>
> Robin?  Colleen?  Anyone?
>
>
> Betty W. in  South-central KY Zone 6
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