Re: b & s
I'm not the one that brought up the 10 best yellows but I will mention my
favorites. WELFENSCHATZ is my best grower and shows the most promise.
Unfortunately I listed it in my catalog and everybody ordered it so I'm back
to having hardly any stock so I won't be able to list it again next year.
My old standby for a good almost yellow is DREAMING YELLOW. It is a good
landscape plant and has nice yellow buds. The flowers fade to white but
that's OK.
SUMMER REVELS from Schafer/Sacks was outstanding this year but it is only a
second year plant so it is hard to judge what it will do. I'm also growing
Currier's MERRYSPRING, and BUTTER AND CREAM. Both have nice yellow flowers
but some major faults on bloom sequence and foliage habit so far.
TOM SCHAEFER and SUNNY SPELLS from Schafer/Sacks will be second year plants
next bloom season. The pictures of each are pretty but neither bloomed in
May after being planted in April.
MOONSILK can be very good or it can be very temperamental. It's a nice
yellow color.
Carol Warner
----- Original Message -----
From: Harold Peters <harold@directcon.net>
To: <sibrob@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [sibrob] b & s
> Please post or send me the list of the 8 to 10 nice yellows since 1990. I
am
> very interested.
>
> The Warner/Wilson rating system for Siberians used in the Draycott Garden
> catalog has Caesar's Brother as a 5/5/5. For those not familar with the
> rating system 5 is the best rating and the three numbers are plant
> vigor/foliage habit/bloom habit.
>
> Harold Peters
> Beautiful View Iris Garden
> El Dorado Hills, CA USDA zone 9
> harold@directcon.net www.beautiful-view-iris.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Wheeler" <awheele2@abacus.bates.edu>
> To: <sibrob@egroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 11:17 AM
> Subject: [sibrob] b & s
>
>
> > As far as "availability" is concerned, there are many varieties that are
> > better in color, but might not be available at, say, a garden center. If
> > you want something bad enough, you can often find out how to get it,
> > including yellow siberians, of which roughly 8-10 NICE ones have been
> > introduced since 1990.
> > The other problem:
> > I know I've mentioned this on the list before, but here it is again....
> > often any yellow siberian iris is passed off as Butter & Sugar, and the
> > same goes for Caesar's Brother. The real Caesar's Brother is quite
nice,
> > so if you aren't happy with yours, aquire it from a different source.
When
> > we finally got the real one, we finally understood the difference.
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Can you tell us why you are replacing those varieties? Also what is
your
> > > wholesale market area? Very important questions that will greatly
affect
> the
> > > answers. There is a reason that both Caesar's Brother and Butter and
> Sugar
> > > are still around and sold almost everywhere. Caesar's Brother does
very
> well
> > > for me in zone 9. I even had both in pots and they survived a
Sacramento
> > > summer. According to my expert 3 years ago when I obtained it is that
> Butter
> > > and Sugar is still the best yellow Siberian available.
> > >
> > > Harold Peters
> > > Beautiful View Iris Garden
> > > El Dorado Hills, CA USDA zone 9
> > > harold@directcon.net www.beautiful-view-iris.com
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "William C. Dougherty" <103225.2126@compuserve.com>
> > > To: "sibrob" <sibrob@egroups.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 4:59 AM
> > > Subject: [sibrob] SR - Topic
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello evryone!
> > > >
> > > > Wow! Anyone out there?
> > > >
> > > > Here is a question for eveyone. If you were in the wholesale nursery
> > > > business which Siberians would you propagate to replace Caesar's
> Brother
> > > > and Butter & Sugar and Ruffled Velvet?
> > > >
> > > > Here are my choices:
> > > >
> > > > Gull's Wing/Esther CDM
> > > > Jewelled Crown
> > > > Liberty Hills
> > > > Coronation Anthem
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Bill Dougherty
> > > > Fridley, MN. Temps still in the 60s during the day!
> > > >
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