Re: CULT: Cyber trials & gardenability

George, I think that is exactly as it should be.  Just as how my kids
might perform in Oregon is less important to me than how it performs
down the road or in adjacent states.  All hybridizers are interested in
gardenability, but interest in gardenability <outside> their own region
of interaction is often less interesting, & hearing that they die is not
a joy to anybody.

Generally, I find irises that I may want to buy the same way Kent does -
I ask around, check with the people that are most likely to have tried
to grow the ones I'm interested in in somewhat similar climate. Getting
harder and harder to find out as fewer and fewer people are willing to
invest in expensive new intros.

In a way, high death rates of irises bred in other climates are a good
thing for the Iris Society, because it fosters new hybridizers in other
regions. There are quite a few folks in this forum who started pollen
daubing out of disappointment over so many deaths and poor performance
of their purchases.

My memory isn't good enough any more to name them all, but several are
established hybridizers - Chuck Chapman, Betty Wilkerson, Christy
Hensler, Griff Crump.  Several others are mostly daubing for their own
enjoyment and may or may not introduce seedlings - me, Donald Eaves,
among others.

Once we all get our own lines going to our own satisfaction, we will
quit fussing about all those pretty things we can't grow here. :-)  or
:-( or maybe some of both <g>

<How an iris performs in the Vale of Despair is of  less importance to
me than how it performs in Utah, New York etc.  My  climate is much more
favorable  for growing iris than yours.  George Mason, Portland, Oregon>

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