Re: HYB: substance & rain
- Subject: [iris] Re: HYB: substance & rain
- From: L* M* <l*@volfirst.net>
- Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 09:12:33 -0400
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Thanks Neil - good point about thickness vs toughness . I have some
seedlings with those thick, shattering blooms, plus have seen some
otherwise very nice selections with that trait from regions that don't
get "overhead watering".
I have FOGBOUND (3rd? yr), but so far, it's not shown any inclination to
grow or bloom well here, and isn't producing pollen. It would never
carry a pod for me. So that avenue isn't open to me, or would require
something more complicated than growing it here, thus I'm hunting for
other options.
If you have time, energy, and could post other ancestral irises that
have combined thick petals and tough cell structure, I'd sure appreciate
it. If not others in CELTIC HARP's pedigree, maybe point to some of
FOGBOUND's ancestors that may have carried those traits?
This is bound to be another winter session of chasing ghosts, trying to
identify older irises that carried traits that might be showing up in
their modern descendants, but I want to rummage around with it to
satisfy my own curiosity.
Neil said:
<In the ancestry of 'Celtic Harp' there are a number of irises I spotted
that
either I have grown or know to be in ancestries of
things of strong or heavy
substance. 'Glittering Amber' is an example. So is
'Claudia Rene.' There
are quite a number of others.
...."substance" can be more than
one thing. Some irises have thick petals, but there
are some that have not so
thick, but especially tough tissue structure that
make them quite
weather--rain and wind--resistant. ..... It makes a
difference which of the above you mean, or if you
mean both. The thick-petal
type alone can be rather fragile. I've seen blooms
of this sort just melt in
hot sun or get shredded by wind and rain. Thickness
alone, giving the
impression of substance, isn't of real value unless
the flower has the other
quality also.....[goes on to recommend FOGBOUND]>
Get your waterwings ready Neil, looks like Frances is heading right for
us once it gets through trashing Florida. We're likely to get the same
kind of deluge that hit Virginia. Worst rainfall event I can remember
here was something like 7 inches in a few hours during a hurricane in
the early 70s. Like being under a firehose.
--
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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