Hybridizers: Breeding Irises- the small ones, 0 by irisMA

irisMA wrote:
Tall bearded do well in our climate as a rule. It depends on where they come from. Immortality takes awhile to settle in. It is also a good rebloomer. The Standard dwarf class is very happy in New England. that is my zone (6b) as well as further north in Maine. So I am working on 2 SDB projects; red amoena & pink. We were trying TB X iris pumila for pink. Then Barry Blyth of Australia came up with the pink SDB, Chanted. Paul Black of Oregon has done quite a few nice pink iris. He is doing wild things with different plicatas. See his introductions this year. However \'Banded Tiger\' is from New England & is in the parentage of Thomas Johnson\'s plicatas. I will post an image of my nicest pink. I would like to add a 3rd bud. Everything but that 3rd bud.