Re: White standards - darker falls
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- Subject: Re: [sibrob] White standards - darker falls
- From: J*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:57:09 EDT
From: Jpwflowers@aol.com
From Marty Schafer, Carlisle, MA cold zone 5, where the season is coming to
an end quickly after poking along nicely. Three days of high 80s and 90s
have burned up most of the new seedlings.
Jim, Super Ego is said to have white standards and blue falls, but I think
the white is really light blue. Every once in a while a seedling appears
with significantly lighter standards than falls in the reds, purples and
blues, but never true clean white. Pinks and yellows often have white
standards, but it's hard to get those darker colors to co-operate. I've been
working on this pattern ever since Sailor's Fancy appeared (it has light blue
standards over darker falls) and haven't seen a whole lot of progress. I
suppose the thing to do would be to cross the light-standard seedlings with
each other and with things like Pink Snowtop and see what we get. Otherwise
we'll have to plant lots of seedlings and wait for a spontaneous mutation.
One thing that has appeared is flowers with pure white style arms over medium
to very dark reds, purples and blues. If the style arms are large enough,
they can give the impression of the pattern you are looking for. In my
garden they usually have some unforgivable fault like two buds per stalk or
an abundance of four parted flowers. Marty
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