Mike,
The main problem here is over exposure. This washes out what I consider to be a VERY striking flower. With digital, you lose the lighlights like the old slide film and they're lost forever. As for the bloom itself, it appears to be monster sized. I have to hand it to you because my seedlings look very dated compared to the magnificent form you have produced with your seedlings. It shows that you've been working hard in the Space Age field and I take my hat off to you in an era where interest in SA Irises seems to have been reduced to almost nothing. Am I wrong with this assumption ?
Just out of curiosity, are SA's still selling well ? People seem to either love them or absolutely despise them. I've kind of lost touch with the Iris mailing lists over the years so I don't really know what the sentiments are these days towards Space Agers. My feeling however, is that the interest is very low.
I still grow some Sutton intros up here in the Laurentians after a decade of torture and some of them still hang in there very nicely. FRENCH HORN continues to bloom on short stalks but is consistent with appendage production. Another survivor is DOCTOR NO but it's appendage shy but a wild grower. The sporadic and eratic HONEY SCOOP continues to the the merry prankster of the garden playing its little shenanagans in terms of appendage production. I used it with STAIRWAY to produce a wonderful SA seedling the resembles STH but it has greenish standards with consistant horns on each bloom.
Chris
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Subject: [SpaceAgeRobin] SA seedling
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posted this on iris photos but didn't get much response. personally thought it was a really nice flower but only 2 folks bothered to comment on it. what do you guys think? am I just biased towards my own seedling, or is it something that has already been done and I just don't know it??
Mike Sutton |
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