Re: gray siberian flowers
I would like to support Harold's proposition, that people like blacks. Here in Lithuania too. Before several years when I have grown more beardeds the peole always stopped at the blacks and now many tend to enjoy darker tones in siberians too, though I have no realy blacks. My darkest are Sweet Succes, High Standard, Shirley Pope, Dark Circle, Trim The Velvet and visitors always choose that for it's darker color. They like whites too. This expression I can't explain other way as by color theory. If you pass through prism the light ray, you will have all spectrum colors. If you put permanent sprectrum colors one to another you will have black color. Maybe people intuitively feel that black color contain more than it show at the moment. From other hand black and white (grey as itermadiate shades) are used in many spheres as clasic colors. It appears in fashion sphere and many others too and for many people is more than acceptable. When speaking about uses of those colors in siberian iris sphere I think we can only discuss what persentage one or another color can take. I would like to present for sibrobians an exercise of an imagination. Imagine, please, that your garden is filled only with black, or white or blue siberians.First case I think no one would be satisfied and the visitors could think host is not quite well with his mentally. With only whites nobody will tell you are crazy, but you yorself will not feel quite satisfied. Most acceptable would be variant with blues. Here work factor of habit. The sky is blue and the surface of water of rivers, lakes and seas have tamed us to this color like a mirror color. Finally I can ascertain like somewhen Dr. Currier McEwen have said about siberian iris forms, that each form have it's right to exist only it can be improved, the same is with colors-each color have right to exist. The uses belong only from how many people like one or another color. I understand you are tired from my talk, but some words about cut flowers. If to accept that flower arrangements can descr
ibe feelings (philosphy of Japan flower arrangements), all colors, including black and grey can be used. If one see only color and form in flower arrangement, maybe he can be not satisfied with that colors.
Good luck for all
Edmundas Kondratas
Kaunas, Lithuania, zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: Harold Peters
To: sibrob@egroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [sibrob] gray siberian flowers
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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