Re: gray siberian flowers
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- Subject: Re: [sibrob] gray siberian flowers
- From: H* P*
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 08:05:29 -0800
- References: <ba.d159077.27358bd5@aol.com>
Take my word for it, there is a market for black flowers. I sell a lot of
"black" TBs and people want the blackest. I have been the chair for a 2 day
Region 14 public rhizome sale at the California State fair for the past 3
years. in 1999, I had a photo of a black, orange and pink iris posted as a
draw. I could have sold 500 rhizomes of the black if I had had it. Even guys
would walk up, point to the black photo and say they wanted "that one". I
know I would have purchased your black Siberian at introduction prices. I
purchased two different "black amoenas" this year at upper end introduction
prices.
Gray, I don't think so either.
Harold Peters
Beautiful View Iris Garden
El Dorado Hills, CA USDA zone 9
harold@directcon.net www.beautiful-view-iris.com
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From: <Jpwflowers@aol.com>
To: <sibrob@egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 7:57 AM
Subject: [sibrob] gray siberian flowers
> Hi Bill, what kind of gray do you have in mind? Light or dark? Dove or
> charcoal? What use do you see for it? Who would buy it?
>
> The same goes for black. Red, blue or purple black? Where would you use
it
> in the garden? Or would it be a cut flower? Years ago I crossed Sultan's
> Ruby with a seedling that no longer exists and got a seedling that in its
> second year of bloom was black with a big white signal. It was tall and
> glorious. We threw it out thinking who would buy a black flower?!!! Too
> bad. Every once in a while I think about making a similar cross with
> Sultan's Ruby, but other things present themselves anfd SR is way up the
hill
> from the seedlings. Too harrassed and tired to make the trip. Good luck,
> Marty
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