Re: Re: TB: Frank Adams

Irisacher@aol.com wrote:
<< Hmmm. I don't grow FRANK ADAMS, but believe that it is a "red" self. I do 
grow ACCENT, and it has bright yellow standards and merlot red falls. Outstanding 
contrast. I think this is correct, so I would say that you have a 
misidentified "ACCENT." >>

Dorothy,

 

I believe you have a misimpression about the color of FRANK ADAMS. It is listed in the 1939 Checklist as "Y9M", which translates to a medium intensity yellow/red variegata; it is so described in the Superstition Iris Garden catalog, and it was prominently mentioned as a hardy variegata in a thread on this List about a month ago. 

 

As Char Holte noted in her post on the current thread, FRANK ADAMS is ACCENT's pollen parent, so one might assume a family resemblance, but what I observed in my garden was the appearance of virtual clones in stalk characteristics, form and color. There is a sixteen year gap between the introduction of FRANK ADAMS (1937) and ACCENT (1953). One might assume that the hybridizer of the latter might have hesitated to introduce it if it really is so similar to its own pollen parent.



Jeff Walters
in northern Utah
(USDA Zone 4)

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