TB: Brown Iris (was OT-BIO)
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- Subject: TB: Brown Iris (was OT-BIO)
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- Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 08:15:17 -0700
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <cwalters@digitalpla.net>
> Vickie W. wrote:
> > I'm in zone 5 in the midwest (NE). Would
> > appreciate any help I could get with my search. I am looking for
> > suggestions (and sources) for a TB brown iris that is Self. Having a
> > hard time finding one. I know they are not the most popular (beauty
> > in the eye of the beholder).
and Marte Halleck replied:>
> One classic brown iris is ARGUS PHEASANT (Deforest, F 1948), a Dykes
> medal winner in 1952.
The heyday of the brown iris seems to have been the 1940's and '50's -
there were numerous introductions in that period from many of the the top
hybridizers of the day. Another good one from that era that is still
generally available is INCA CHIEF (Mitsch, '52). It is a lighter shade of
brown than ARGUS PHESANT.
Marte continues:
> A more recent brown TB that I saw at the Denver Botanic Gardens & liked
> a lot is, I think, GINGERBREAD MAN -- someone else will have to tell us
> its hybridizer & year of intro because I didn't make note of same, just
> remember it was cool.
This presents a bit of a conundrum; GINGERBREAD MAN (Bennett Jones, '69) is
indeed brown, but it is an SDB, not a TB. There is also a near
contemporary, GINGERBREAD CASTLE (Tompkins, '67) that is a brown TB.
Possibly a case of mislabeling?
A more recent brown iris that has done well for me is CABLE CAR (Luihn,
'82). As you mention, Vickie, brown iris are not that fashionable these
days, and so there are not too many new ones on the market.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@digitalpla.net
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