JungleShadows said:Greg,
When I wrote the book on beardless irises I wrote a "History of Hybridizing" where I talked about all the principal players for each group of iris and how they contributed to the advancement of the group. Luckily i have been around so long that I actually knew many of these people. To me this is interesting how the hybridizing has progressed, working on the shoulders of others. When I started we only had several hundred cultivars, many misnamed, and many not that interesting. That's why my hybridizing program was based upon relatively few cultivars but utilized those that were the "state of the art" back in '64. 'Silverine' and 'Cleveland Morgan' were very important and these two along with 'Lavender and Old Lace', 'Missouri Rose' and 'Denise's Cobweb' turned out to be the parents that produced the most consistently pretty seedlings. Later 'Minaret' and 'Jungle Shadows' showed themselves to be good parents. Of course you have all seen the wonderful things coming from combining 'Killer' and 'Jungle Shadows'. In fact, this was the first year I didn't use 'Jungle Shadows' itself but rather used the seedlings from it.
- Hen and Chicks (Sempervivum 'Silverine')
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- Hen and Chicks (Sempervivum 'Minaret')
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- Hen and Chicks (Sempervivum 'Killer')
- Uploaded by valleylynn
By the way, that was the real impetus for the clinic, that I was the last one alive that knew these things and i needed to spread the word to the next generation. You don't want the information to die with you, not that I anticipate that happening anytime soon.
Thank you Lynn for putting my "gospel" into its own category. You can decide what posts are "worthy" of putting there. YOU have my permission to edit out the "crazy"!
Kevin
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