Re: TB: PBF
- To: "'i*@onelist.com'" <i*@onelist.com>
- Subject: Re: TB: PBF
- From: "* M* <M*@tc.gc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:18:29 -0400
From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>
I understand that Brad Kasparek is also working on getting PBF further up
the foliage. I think that Dave Silverberg mentioned that he was successful
in getting it halfway up.
Maureen Mark
m*@ottawa.com
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4)
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> From: Gary D. Sides[SMTP:irisman@mindspring.com]
> Reply To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 7:07 PM
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] Re: TB: PBF
>
> From: "Gary D. Sides" <irisman@mindspring.com>
>
> Purple based foliage has also always intrigued me. While visiting
> Sterling
> Innerst's garden in the spring of '97, I saw two different irises that
> nearly blew me away. As was mentioned earlier, his Tennessee Gentleman
> and
> all of his plicata lines have some PBF.
>
> One seedling was: 4016-4 a flower with pink standards, and berry colored
> falls on orange ground. PBF was very evident, but the kicker was that the
> stalk was purple over half-way up. It was quite a sight with these
> colors.
> This was not the darkest.
>
> That honor goes to: 4596-4 a flower with bright yellow ground and berry
> plicating that had more heavily colored purple stalks even up to purple
> tinged spathes.
>
> I don't know the status of any introduction plans, but both looked really
> good at that time. Would love to see them on the market if they have
> continued to be worthy plants.
>
>
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