Silver Illusion
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- Subject: [sibrob] Silver Illusion
- From: J*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:08:35 EDT
Howard Brookins brought up Silver Illusion as an example of a weak modern
siberian. There is no question that we have had difficulty getting it
established and growing it well. We paid an arm and a leg for our first
piece of it and it died before the first summer. On the other hand, Marty
used the pollen from its one bloom and has produced some really great and
vigorous siberians in further generations from it. It was truly a new color
and a great tool for a hybridizer in spite of its poor growth habits.
Sometimes it is valuable to introduce problem plants with special features,
though it is certainly hard on the gardeners who pay a lot of money for them
and they don't grow. Many times a hybridizer will label such a plant as a
"breeder's iris". I don't know why Silver Illusion is so finicky - (we have
heard of a magnificent clump at the Indiana National Convention), but I do
not think it is caused by a long line of in-breeding since the parentage is
listed in the checklist as unknown. We wish we knew more about the
background of this interesting iris.
Jan Sacks in Massachusetts where we are on the front end of three days of
heavy rain - hence time to write.
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