Re: CULT:HYB: Trial Gardens [was: Re: HYB: AIS: Trial Garden Idea Redux]

Neil  --  Glad to hear that you are trialing POWER WOMAN with a view toward
introduction.  I had been intending to ask just that question.  As to where
it prospers and where it doesn't, that causes me to hark back to our most
recent discussion of gardenability and to pose this question:  Just as
species flourish in certain climes and conditions and not others,  why
should not the same limitation apply to certain varieties of cultivars,
depending upon their genetics?  Must a variety of tall bearded, for
instance, perform well throughout North America in order to be considered a
"good" iris?  Or is it "good" if it performs and gives pleasure only in some
locations and/or conditions?  Our recent discussion of this issue seems to
indicate that the latter is the case and that our frustrating experiences of
the past and challenge of the present as regards the viability of certain
cultivars may mostly be a matter of identifying as nearly as possible their
requisite conditions.  --  Griff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil A Mogensen" <neilm@charter.net>
To: "Iris-talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: CULT:HYB: Trial Gardens [was: Re: [iris] HYB: AIS: Trial Garden
Idea Redux]


> Hello Dorothy!
>
> Yes, I quite agree about sending irises out for conventions.
>
> When in Idaho I never did so and should have.  I had some good things,
only
> one of which ever garnered an award--an HM for SIGRID, a "Mohr" from
> Capitola.  Judges in Idaho were few and very far between in those days,
and
> not all that plentiful even now.
>
> Here in NC I am totally isolated.  Both of our local judges are dropped,
one
> voluntarily, the other just because of trying to balance too many things.
> They have been the back bone of our local CMIS (Carolina Mountain Iris
> Society), but one is ill, the other up to his eyebrows with JI's and
trying
> to make a living.
>
> Roy Epperson is at High Point.  There are others in the Charlotte area,
not
> more than two hours away.  I have yet to get over there to eather area to
> get acquainted, and I can say the same about the much closer
> Greenville-Spartanburg folks.  There are both commercial gardens and some
> highly active growers and hybridizers there too, a mere hour away.
>
> I looked at the possibility of reinstatement as a Judge, partly in
response
> to the local vacuum for active judges, and had a plan or process worked
out
> with Ginny Spoon and Dr. Epperson since my approximately twenty-year lapse
> in membership was not the sort of thing the *Handbook* provisions
> anticipated.
>
> I finally came to realize my energies and resources simply were not a
> realistic foundation for the full responsibilities incumbent upon a
working,
> conscientious Judge.  I withdrew, but Dr. Epperson left the door open to
my
> continuing the process.  I appreciate that, but doubt I will be able to
> pursue the matter.  I've had fifteen medical "procedures" since November
> 2001, three of them surgeries that were described as "mojos" by one of the
> physicians.
>
> My recovery is very, very slow.  I am rarely out in public, and my garden
is
> a four-year accumulated disaster of neglect.  It also is my lifeline, as
it
> forces me out of the house and into life-giving exercise attacking the
weeds
> and salvaging what I can from the red gumbo clay "soil."
>
> So--sending guests to conventions.  I have one farmed out to several
friends
> scattered all over the US, and will be introducing through Snowpeak
(Denise
> Stewart) if the evaluation is positive.  The seedling, named POWER WOMAN,
is
> also a guest at Portland, my first attempt at this process.  The color is
> powerful, but the season is early and may miss convention date except for
> straggling last blooms.  Denise Stewart also will have it in bloom at
> Snowpeak, along with a couple of its seedlings, one of which is looking
for
> a name.
>
> So far the evaluations haven't been as positive as I'd hoped.  Power Woman
> doesn't perform as well elsewhere as it has at home.  I need to send a
piece
> to Linda Mann!  It would be interesting to see if it would survive there.
> It does here.
>
> I never have visitors here, with two exceptions--Linda herself, and one
> friend who is getting interested in irises.  I also have a daughter in TN
> who has come and helped weed several times, and who is beginning to grow
> seedlings, both some of mine farmed out and some crosses of her own.  With
> five children, working full time and juggling meals, clothes, cats, dogs
and
> various other pets she has some competition for her energies and time.
She
> is studying the *Handbook,* reading *The World of Irises,* and I've gotten
> the R&I's for her each of the past several years.  She loves iris, but may
> have to wait a while for her attention-straining distractions to become
less
> before she gets more involved.
>
> Neil Mogensen  z 7  Reg 4  western NC mountains
>
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