Re: TB: Brown Iris (was OT-BIO)
From: Marte Halleck <MorJHalleck@worldnet.att.net>
Jeff and Carolyn Walters wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> 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?
Jeff, you're right about G-MAN being an SDB, I'm sure. As soon as I read
your note a picture popped into my visual memory & it was indeed of a
perky, dwarf iris, not a TB. Not mislabeling -- just misremembering.
Marte in the mtns Zone 4/Sunset 1 Colorado -- where our predicted "2"
to 6 of snow in the foothills" didn't arrive overnight but now the
conifers are all frosted & the clouds are right down on top of us so
it's a-comin'...
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