Blue Shimmer

Blue Shimmer is pure Sass.  The CL '49 doesn't give much useful information--just says "J. Sass R. '41  Sass-H.P. 65-35 x (Blue Monarch x .........).  The HIPS site data omits the unknown part of the pollen parent's ancestry and simply shows Blue Monarch as the pollen parent. Blue Monarch is from Wambliska x Matilda, Wambliska having the same parentage as Purissima--Argentina x Conquistador.
 
Kelly was quick to point out that Conquistador also shows in the ancestry of Unicorn.
 
I have Blue Shimmer planted here in the shade of a holly tree, but it manages to bloom anyway most years.
 
The main purpose that might be served in crossing it with a modern SA might be to determine if it were one of the carriers.  I wouldn't expect anything of remotely modern quality coming  from it.  NEW HOPE and DOTTED SWISS might give equally significant results, and both have substantially better substance.  So does CAROLINE JANE and ROCOCO,which, although they are not directly "Sass", do have Sass-bred ancestry and other materials of similar nature, whereas Dotted Swiss is directly from the Sass seedling patch, for whatever that matters.
 
Following Linda Mann's thought on reaching back to tough survivors in the historics, I'm tempted to go to BLUE RHYTHM.  Not only does it have the capacity to produce spectacular branching, but it can throw seedlings on occasion that look surprisingly modern.  There was a registration of OCEANIC many years ago from SUN LAKES X BLUE RHYTHM that had awesome haft width and would pass for a modern iris even today.  I'm probably the only one who ever registered a seedling from Oceanic--won't know until more of the CL's are online--but what I registered was a mistake.  I wouldn't hesitate to use Blue Rhythm, but I would Blue Shimmer.
 
Neil Mogensen  z 7  western NC
 
 

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