Re: ROKU OJI
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] ROKU OJI
- From: H*
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 20:48:40 -0700
This is a soap box response so don't hesitate to delete it on the first
inclination.
The speciality iris nurseries are obsessive with cultivar names. The typical
general nursery is close to indifferent to cultivar names for things like
irises. The large wholesale distributors knowingly and deliberately buy a
truckload of "light blue" seedlings from a large and to be unnamed iris
nursery and then label the entire batch "Chico Maid" for the large stores
that have a nursery as less than 10% of their total business. If you want
some attempt at name accuracy, buy only from the speciality iris nurseries
as they will warantee name accuracy. If you see an iris that you want for
your garden at any other kind of nursery either discard the name immediately
or be obsessive about comparing the bloom to the registration information
and a variety of internet photo sites. If the details do not match, throw
the name or the iris away as you prefer.
When you start comparing actual flowers in your hand with the R&I
descriptions, you will find three situations. First is the description is so
general and non specific that it is next to worthless. Second, the
desciption is so technical that you have no idea what the words mean. Third,
the hybridizer is color blind or has the strangest soil nutrients imaginable
and there is almost no relationship between what you have in your hand and
the official description but the knowledgeable source of the rhizome assures
you that what you have is that cultivar.
Most of the above is not meant in a critical way. It is just an expression
of both humor and frustration with the communication challenge when working
with people who have different agendas and differing abilities.
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: "Sharon Hayes Whitney" <ertheart@gwi.net>
To: <sibrob@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [sibrob] ROKU OJI
> I thought that Bob and Judy Hollingworth introduced Roku Ogi. I remember
> seeing it in an ad of theirs.
> Perhaps it has been registered since the last check list was published.
> Currier and I have introduced a number of seedlings that were sent to us
> from Kamo Nurseries in Japan. We register them with our AIS registrar,
Keith
> Keppel. We give credit to Kamo Nurseries and/or the hybridizer. We also
> list when they were introduced in Japan along with the date that we
> introduced them in the U.S.
> It is useful to know how long they have been in circulation and used in
> breeding programs. It is important to register the plants for the same
> reasons we register seedlings grown in the US. Over the years I have
> discovered many irises grown at garden centers that do not appear in a
check
> list. It is hard to know who is in your garden with no registered name.
> Sharon Whitney
>
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