Re: TB: what's bloomin' in Aus?

From: "Colleen Modra" <irises@senet.com.au>

Hi Dianne and all from Colleen Modra

We've just had a most successful Iris Show, thanks again to the very hard
work put in by the members, especially Pam and Peter Jackson. Poor Darrelle
Watson (secretary) says she never wants to see another rhizome again. We had
lots of blooms despite it being such an early season, but even I was
struggling to find any dwarfs or medians. I can usally have  some being so
much later than most of the others. The La and spurias were also good. Peter
Jackson had some of his very nice La seedlings.
The Rose Show was on the same weekend so both clubs exchanged leaflets so
the turnout was excellent.

In our garden the Yaquina Blue is just finishing, it's been fantastic. A
pity it has no pollen but it's very pod fertile. My Mesmerizer flowered for
the first time on the tallest spikes I've ever seen. I has to seriously cut
the stem I took to the show so people could see the flounces rather than the
bottom of the flower. Clebration Song is just starting to bloom and doing
magnificently. Managua is such a lovely colour but a poor grower for me,
unlike Quito. About Town has been one of the most popular with visitors to
the garden. good old Sunday Punch has been very good this year, ever such a
reliable black-red. Sold out of it already for the season,My father-in-law
had a magificent show stem of it a week to early.
My seedlings are looking good. A floret of Bequine x HeMan took out third
prize in the open floret class. Have a lovely cream with a faint purple
flush from Divine Duchess x Classic Look, hope it will rebloom and a couple
of nice red browns.

Diane what do you spray your thrips with. I've a few minor problems with
them.


Colleen, on a very fresh spring day.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dianne Dalla Santa <dalla@apollo.ruralnet.net.au>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Tuesday, 26 October 1999 6:06
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: what's bloomin' in Aus?


>From: Dianne Dalla Santa <dalla@apollo.ruralnet.net.au>
>
>Hi Jan, Colleen and listers
>
>Full bloom just passing in our iris gardens in Sunraysia but still plenty
>of spikes coming on mid to late season varieties but I have had to actually
>spray for thrip a couple of times after finding so many empty sockets. They
>can really ruin a good spike for such tiny little creatures. Seems that
>thrip has been very widespread this year with infestations occuring after
>those nasty hot northwind days.
>
>At present we are caught up in the centenary celebrations of the Victorian
>Rose Society and for the past few days the garden has been open for the
>local Rose Festival and thankfully the iris were looking spectacular as
>well. Speaking to visiting rosarianson a pre- celebration tour of rose
>gardens in Victoria and South Australia at a dinner in Mildura last night
>the "locals" ie the Australians on board have had some thrip even in city
>rose gardens on similar hot windy days.
>
>Some of the other guests from around the world will return home to UK and
>Europe to put their roses to bed for the winter months. They will actually
>lay them over and bury them in straw etc. We literally have to cut off buds
>to prune our roses in Autumn so we have a only a couple of months without
>rose blooms. Mutabilis blooms all year and the iris Lady Friend is a great
>colour to grow alongside. Another delightful sight is the iris Planned
>Treasure beside the David Austin rose Ellen.
>
>We have chartered a coach for 30 and we head off to Melbourne for "Roseweek
>99" in the Royal Exhibition Buidings but we have managed to include a visit
>to the Victorian Iris Show on Sunday. Are any other Aussie listers going ?
>Perhaps we'll see you there.
>
>Dianne, Oz
>
>

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