RE: gray siberian flowers (?)
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- Subject: RE: [sibrob] gray siberian flowers (?)
- From: E* G*
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:11:56 -0500
>===== Original Message From Jpwflowers@aol.com =====
>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?
Hi Marty, this is not Bill but I would buy it depending on its description..
which is how most of us order new intros. - based on written words and a photo
does help, of course. :)
One of my fav. medians is JUNGLE SHADOWS and I can't even describe its
coloration. Registered as a BB in '59 as a blended brown-gray and purple with
a brown beard. It never looks that way to me. My husband dislikes it
intensely but his fav. bearded irises are black and I do have some black
bearded but I have shied away from most. I adore SALAMANDER CROSSING and
SHAKER'S PRAYER and he doesn't (they are in our garden since I purchase the
irises and only buy what I like :).
>Red, blue or purple black? Where would you use it in the garden? Or would it
>be a cut flower?
That is an interesting point...I think black looks pretty blah in the border
but looks smashing as a cut flower. Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder
especially in our gardens.
>Every once in a while I think about making a similar cross with
>Sultan's Ruby, but other things present themselves and SR is way up the hill
>from the seedlings. Too harrassed and tired to make the trip.
No wonder with all the crosses you make and the seedlings Joe Pye Weed gives
us each year!
Cheers,
===
Ellen Gallagher/ Berlin, NH,USA/ Zone 3
N. White Mts. in the "Great North Woods"
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