too much and not enough

Bill,

You are probably right that hybridizers in bearded iris world
pay not enough attention to vigor of iris, its disease resistance etc.
But at the same time, I think, it doesn't mean they pay too much!!
attention to the color and form of flower. I think, It'll never be too
much, it's impossible be too much. It's just very well that bearded
irises shout out such a things regardless how do they look after
their bloom. Their main task is not to demonstrate their foliage
(though it's also important of course) - we have, say, hostas for it -
but to sing a song. "Let it be blessed for ever what came to be in
bloom and die."

For me the main thing in bearded iris is it's form - it's exactly what
I love them for. If the world of nonbearded irises is (for me again)
a beautiful sweet dream and even - eternal rest, the world of
bearded irises (TBs in the first place), with all their fragility and
refinement, is a real life, aspiration, passion. Among irises, as a rule,
only TB can have its value for me if I have only one stem of it. Each
single TB stem is self-sufficient individuality and exactly by this
reason I love them more than other irises. The clumps are always
less important if we think about iris itself but not about, say, garden
design. Moreover the form (structure) of bearded iris flower
contains, I think, more possibilities for creation work (in color
diversity field in particular) than other garden flowers.

Possibly we'll have form criterions for SIBs and other nonbearded
in the future too.

I'll write about classification later.

Sergey


----- Original Message -----
From: <wmcdougherty@cs.com>
To: <sibrob@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:37 AM
Subject: [sibrob] A different thread


> Dennis and group,
>
> One of the many reasons I like to hybridize with Siberians (and also
> Versicolors) is the lack of  constraints. (Not an excuse for introducing
> mediocre or redundant material) That there is no preferred size and form.
> That a superior Siberian is as much an accent plant as a structural member
of
> a planting.
>
> I do not want to be too blasphemous but bearded hybridizers spend to much
> attention to the novelty of flower color and pattern and not enough to
some
> glaring issues of vigor and disease resistance. Many TBs shout out "look
at
> me, am I not the biggest and best thing around!" and turn into a plant
like
> an oriental poppy in August.
>
> Bill
>
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