Re: TB: PBF
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- Subject: Re: TB: PBF
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@digitalpla.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:46:17 -0600
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <cwalters@digitalpla.net>
Mike Sutton writes:
> I have a couple seedlings with red based fans turning to purple about two
> inches up and continuing about 1/2 way up the fan. Both the flowers are
> really ugly but the foliage is beautiful and something to work with. I
have
> noticed that during the summer when the plants get a little dry the color
> de-intensifies (is that a word?)
Mike,
I believe the common term applied to the phenomenon you describe is
"fades".
> and retreats a little down the fan. On
> another note several of our plicata seedlings that have strong purple
based
> foliage have completely dusky purple bloom stalks and spaths. Makes for
an
> interesting contrast in the garden.
TENNESSEE GENTLEMAN (Innerst, '91), which has at best only a faint blush of
purple at the base of the foliage that "de-intensifies" to the vanishing
point by the middle of the summer, does have deep purple streaking on the
bloom stalks plus a heavy infusion of purple on the immature seed pods that
only fades as they approach maturity. This suggests that the degree of
purpling on the stalks may be inherited somewhat independently of the
intensity of purple pigmentation of the foliage.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@digitalpla.net
Where it was "Plant-A-Bulb" weekend - on Saturday and Sunday I interred 100
Dutch Iris, 25 Chinese trumpet lilies, 25 Asiatic lilies, 20 Iris
reticulata, 10 Narcissus bulbocodium, 3 Eremurus bungei, and a partridge in
a pear tree!
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