Re: HYB: Using Tender Varieties
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- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 06:54:37 -0700
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Hello Walter,
Chocolate Vanilla grows like a weed here, Witches Wand is probably the most
tender variety here. Many of the broken color flowers are also tuff to grow
here. Skookumchuck doesn't like to reproduce itself.
Mike
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From: <wmoores@watervalley.net>
To: <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 6:52 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] HYB: Using Tender Varieties
>
>
> > YES, and CHERRY CHILD X CHOCOLATE VANILLA, with a view to some
> > interesting bicolours.
> >
> > Cheers, Jan Clark, Australia
>
> Can anyone outside of Australia and the US West Coast grow
> CHOCOLATE VANILLA? I tried it three times and would put it in
> the WHITE LIGHTNING-tender group. Maybe, we should start a
> list of 'tender' irises, those that are super-sensitive to cold.
>
>
> I'll list the tenderest of all first.
>
> SKOOKUMCHUCK. You can breathe on this one after
> drinking a cold drink (non-alcoholic) and it will keel over!
>
> WHITE LIGHTNING
>
> CHOCOLATE VANILLA
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>
> The most extensive listing of tender varieties is in the Chuck
> Chapman catalog. Of course, he is located in Canada, and I can
> understand why his list is so long. Chuck lists one of my own
> inventions which is somewhat tender in MS but reblooms in
> Canada. Amazing! So, everybody is not going to agree on what is
> tender!
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA!
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