Keith Keppel has one out there somewhere if I can ever find a source for it called 'Art Glass'. A sort of a yellow glaciata with some reddish color bleeding from the beard a little bit onto the fall. I also have a seedling with a similar reddish glow at the end of the fall. Well, us hybridizers just can't pass up a shot at something like that. I just gotta see if I can stack the genes and expand that little red spot. Here is mine and Keith's both so you can see what I am talking about.
Well, I better hurry up. Winter will be over and it's back to the fields and I won't have time to do this. It's hard for one person to keep up. Too much to do and I ain't gettin' no younger.
The "Flattie" is sort of interesting, but it needs more work. I am with Mary Ann on the first one. This looks like a good follow-up to "American Maid". How is the bud count and growth characteristics?
thanks Greg. The 'flattie' came out of nowhere as it were. Can't explain that one. Any way I just took a picture and then I think I gave it away to one of my iris friends that likes oddities. I don't work with them and don't really care for them. The only one I still have in the garden is 'Beg to Differ' and it may be gone soon. As for the other one you liked, K0-34-1, it had poor bud count and a runty plant. Don't know what happened with it. May still be here somewhere. It had some of the 'American Maid' look going there as well it should since it has 'Honky Tonk Blues' in it's background also. I got caught up in that for a while. The parentage on K0-34-1 is 'Bye Bye Blues' (which has Honky Tonk in it as well) by (Kiss Me Please x Banjo Girl).. 'Kiss Me Please' also has Honky Tonk in it. So now you know why it looks like it does. thanks for your interest and I will see about 'Cherokee Shuffler' for you which was introduced this year by my ex. I think she has plenty of it.
Obviously most of these will never see the light of day but................. I still have all of these except the first one with the speckles in the falls. I haven't seen it lately and I can only assume it is not here. So if the really ruffled mauve (next to last) had a bit better color, maybe? Anyway, just something to brighten up a gloomy winter day. woo hoo!!
Mary Ann, that one is my pick, too. It reminds me of Ann Miller. Don't ask me why I flashed on her twirling across a stage floor when I saw the photo, but I did.
Well if you guys are not tired of looking at sdlgs. I have plenty more. Oops!. I think duplicated one here. Oh well.
Anyway please understand that I no longer have several of my sdlgs. I have never been about commercial output, though I have done a few with Rockytop Gardens of Phil Williams and that was okay. I have given many away, sold a few, discarded a few, lost a bunch in the weeds, I even mowed a whole sdlg. patch down with a bush hog. But it's all about creating and the fun of something new. I am sure I have discarded many that might have been desirable. But you can't keep 'em all and to propagate enough of each of these to introduce (Phil says 30-40 plants of each) would take a lot of time, space and energy. That's three things I don't have a lot of anymore. But I still have fun creating. So just enjoy with me and understand where I coming from. That being said I still have an awful lot of iris for just a hobbyist. Whew!
