{Disarmed} [SpaceAgeRobin] 28-031B1 (Thornbird x Fan Flare)

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Attached is the dog I mentioned the other day.  The photo makes the iris look much more glamorous than it actually is.  You can kind of detect the flare to the standards when you look at the opposing two.  Definitely has the Thornbird beard but no appendages.  This is the vigorous one of the bunch too.  I’m keeping it around just to see what it does but will probably send it to the compost.  The flowers are somewhat small for a tall bearded as well. 

 

What SA crosses did folks manage to make this spring?  I’ve got pods on the following:

 

Colleen’s Dreamsicle x Screen Play

Conjuration x Fashionably Late

Strozzapreti x Rock Star

Rock Star x Let’s Boogie

Abbey Chant x Let’s Boogie (Abbey Chant was one of the few space agers to perform exceptionally well this year.)

African Wine x Punk

 

Not very many SA pods took but then again neither did anything else!  It was a rotten year for crosses with too much rain and wind to accomplish anything.  The bloom season however was fantastic.  A photo of MDB SA Punk to follow.

 

Horticulturally,

 

Kelly D. Norris

Master Gardener

Contributing Editor, Garden & Greenhouse Mag.

Editor, Dwarf Iris Society of America

Bedford, IA

Zone 4b/5a