REF: checklist colors, etc.

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• Subject: [iris] REF: checklist colors, etc.
• From: E* G* <e*@yahoo.com>
• Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:01:32 -0700 (PDT)
• List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)

>>> 'Beyond Dreams'.  

(Linda Miller '04) TB, SA, 40", EM. S. Buff yellow with orchid
defused rib.  
Falls are violet-orchid with buff yellow hafts.  The violet-blue
tipped yellow 
orange beards sport small violet-blue horns.  7 buds.  In Your
Dreams X 
(Tripple Whammy x Edith Wolford) <<<

The names of the colors different hybridizers use to describe
their irises really mystifies me. Case in point: What the heck
is "buff yellow"? Is it light yellow, bright yellow or muted
lemony yellow or ??  At least the RHS numbers had some rationale
even tho' I never a chart. 

While I am on my little rant here <vbg>, when it says 7 buds, I
chuckle. If I ever saw a TB with 7 buds, I would faint. The most
I have seen in my garden is 5 and only 6 on 'Seeking' -
obviously my fav. TB.  I realize that the 7 buds refers to the
hybridizer's garden. Note bene.

Very warm here today for late Sept. = 68 degrees and sunny.

Ellen 



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Ellen Gallagher / ellengalla@yahoo.com /Berlin, New Hampshire - USDA Zone 3 
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