Re: Convention Report
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] Convention Report
- From: H* P*
- Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 19:18:51 -0700
Carol, thanks for the excellent report on the convention. I now wished I
would have jumped on Bob's comment about wanting to guest some of his
seedlings in California. I am going to be digging and potting some of the
weak sisters in the Siberian row to make room for Michael's seedlings. I
could have just slightly expanded my definition of "weak" to make a few more
spaces available. I am going to be a Region 14 guest garden host in 2002. I
had hoped to have some official Siberian guests but that didn't happen.
I would think your comments about TOM SHEAFER have also answered Keny's
question about parents to hybridize with. I know what is going to be on the
top of my 2002 Siberian wish list.
I finally got a helper for take notes on clump height. Trying to hold a 3
ring binder in the strong breeze and measure the clumps turned out to be a
lot of work for one person. I corralled a daughter into helping me while
Gran'na took the 2 year old grandson into the swimming pool. I will
summarize my notes and heights and make a report to the group on the better
performers.
Harold Peters
Beautiful View Iris Garden
2048 Hickok Road
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
harold@directcon.net www.beautiful-view-iris.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Warner" <draycott@qis.net>
To: <sibrob@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 5:47 PM
Subject: [sibrob] Convention Report
> Hi All,
>
> There have been very few reports on the siberians seen at the AIS
Convention so I thought as a garden owner I would make a few comments. I
was only able to see one garden but I saw a lot of that over a long period
of time!
>
> We had nine buses over three days and thankfully only one that I know of
got stuck and the same one got lost. All the others seemed to navigate
quite nicely.
>
> In my garden I had 32 days straight with absolutely no rain and then 5.2
inches of rain during the week of the convention. Thankfully, most of that
was early in the week or the Saturday night after the conclusion of the
convention.
>
> My favorite guest iris was Bob Hollingworth's seedling number 97B6B8. It
is a ruffled deep wine flower with a huge white signal surrounded by a blue
halo and veins and set off by a bright white wire rim around the falls. The
style arms are wide and fancy and have a touch of turquoise in them. After
the rain, the tallest flower stalk was 35 inches in height. This is
probably the most striking siberian I have ever seen.
>
> Bob's other guest seedlings that were very nice included 97B1B25, a very
ruffled blue violet bitone again with wide ruffled styles. This stalk was
only 18 inches tall on a second year plant. Maybe it would grow taller
another year. 97A5B3 is very different and is a velvety deep purple with a
big gold sunburst signal and aqua styles. The stalks on this one were 21
inches in height.
>
> Other favorites were SHIPS ARE SAILING by Shafer/Sacks. The guest plant
was only 34 inches in height but my own plant beside the fence is 45 inches
tall. The bitone blue flowers are large, ruffled and very "showy". DIRIGO
BLACK VELVET by John White was early and has continued to stay in bloom for
a long time. It is very dark velvety purple with a gold signal.
>
> Marty and Jan's yellows were show stoppers. SUMMER REVELS (slightly
ruffled bright yellow, 23 inches), IN FULL SAIL (a bit lighter yellow but
wider and more ruffled, 22 inches), TOM SCHAEFER (deep yellow, 27 inches)
and SUNNY SPELLS (branched slightly lighter yellow, 28 inches) certainly
drew a lot of attention from note-takers and photographers.
>
> For those of you who attended the Siberian section meeting and heard Dr.
Epperson's talk, I can see why Marty and Jan use Tom Schaefer in their
breeding program. You should see the seed pods on it. It will be a shame
to take the stalks off when it finishes.
>
> SOMEBODY LOVES ME did receive one of the runner up awards to the best out
of region irises seen at the convention. My clump was not too impressive
this year because it bloomed more than twice last year. I kept telling it
to save its energy for the convention but it would not listen.
>
> I have one question for the hybridizers out there. Do you measure the
height of the bloom stalk before or after the monsoon season? These heights
were measured after all the rain last week and this week.
>
> I hope several of you will add some of your favorites to this list.
>
> Recovering somewhat from the convention,
>
> Carol Warner
> Draycott Gardens
> Maryland, zone 6/7
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