Re: TB: Healthiest variegatas?

Linda  --  At the risk of letting modesty be a casualty, I think that
TORCHLIGHT PARADE may fit both of your categories.  It is quite vigorous
here and elsewhere and has survived some pretty miserable conditions (bad
freeze-and-thaw winters) here in its home ground.  I received a report from
one garden in Kansas, I think, where it did not do well, but it has thrived
in Missouri, southern Virginia and North Carolina.  The attached photo was
taken by Gary Keller in a convention garden in St. Louis this year.
Received back a sackful of increase.  I think a couple of our list members
may have it in the Southwest, but I don't recall hearing how it has done in
those conditions.  At any rate, it is actually an old cross of mine that was
registered only after many years in the garden.  The cross was a
Wabash-derived seedling by an unidentified variegata that I acquired from a
garden near my church.  I believe that variegata was KAHILI, but one doesn't
record guesses in the pedigree.  TP's form shows the "antiquity" of its
parents.  I'd like to cross it with HALO EVERYBODY to see what it might look
like with rounder falls.  Does anyone have an e-mail address for Meadowbrook
Gardens or Francis and Ruth Rogers?  --  Griff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:28 AM
Subject: [iris] TB: Healthiest variegatas?


> Which variegatas have you found to be the healthiest and most reliable?
>
> From any era.
>
> Especially interested in really showy red and yellow ones.
>
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