Re: REB: HYB: Renown - umbrata?

Hi Linda,

What do you consider so special about Renown?

Char, New Berlin, WI
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From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
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Subject: [iris] REB: HYB: Renown - umbrata?


> [photo posted] RENOWN is winning me over, in spite of having lied to me
> about being so pod fertile this spring (most pods were empty).  It tried
> to bloom off and on this summer.  Buds couldn't take the heat -
> dissolved in rotting goo.
>
> It probably doesn't show very well in this photo, but the fall has some
> definite blue/purple color on the upper surface.  The back of the petal
> is yellow.
>
> I haven't had the heart to scrape the surface to see how deep the purple
> pigment goes.
>
> Not many RENOWN offspring in the online database - anybody know if it
> passes on blue/purple pigments in the surface layer of the falls?
>
> --
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