Re: Geoge Bush

 

Hi Judy.
 
Rosalie Figge and I used to visit George Bush's garden on the outskirts of York, PA every year.  George lived by himself and loved his garden.  He hybridized several wonderful Japanese irises.  Tea Ceremony, Japanese Sandman, Imperial Kimono and Pink Canopy were some of my favorites.  I used to buy plants from him each year and often felt like I was rescuing the plants because his garden was a bit overgrown with companion plants (weeds).  His plants, though, were always well marked and he would dig a nice hunk for you.
 
Frosty Rim is a great landscape iris and I still grow it.  The silver rim was so faint that you almost needed a microscope to see it but it was just enough the set the flower apart from any ordinary blue-violet Siberian.  I used to rate the Siberian irises in my catalog and it always received a 5/5/5 which meant it grew extremely well and had all the  desirable characteristics you could ask for in a small diploid Siberian.  I have sold tons of it so it should still be growing in many gardens across the nation.

Happy Gardening!
Carol Warner
Draycott Gardens
 
----- Original Message -----
From: c*@netscape.net
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 3:55 PM
Subject: [sibrob] Geoge Bush

 

Don't do a double take!  I'm referencing the hybridizer George Bush not the ex-president! Does anyone know of him, what AIS region he came from, where he lived. If someone in his region is reading this - please feel obligated to write me a couple of paragraphs about him. The reason I need this is because he won an AM in 1986 for his Siberian Frosty Rim.  Thanks in anticipation. Judy
 Judy Hollingworth

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