Showing posts with label Hybridizing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hybridizing. Show all posts
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Using Species in MDB Breeding, Part 2: Iris aphylla x Iris pumila

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 by Tom Waters This is the second of three posts on my experimenting with various species in breeding miniature dwarf bearded (MDB) irises...
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Monday, July 3, 2023

Using Species in MDB Breeding, Part 1: Iris lutescens

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by Tom Waters I’m a hobby hybridizer, working on a very small scale (I can only raise about 200 seedlings each year). So from the outset, ...
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Monday, May 22, 2023

68-110 : (Ponderosa X New Moon) or the summit of the art

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By Sylvain Ruaud A perfume creator first imagines a new fragrance and then gathers the ingredients he will use. Next, he formulates the subt...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

How to Create a New Iris

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by Bob Pries It is the holiday season and I am wrapping up one last iris gift. This one is very special for me because it was more than 30 y...
Monday, October 17, 2022

A New Iris Season is Just Beginning

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by Mel and Bailey Schiller  Season 2022/2023 is upon us!  Our family has been frantically getting the field cleaned and the gardens ready in...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Season 2021 at Smokin Heights

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By Mel and Bailey Schiller This spring was long and drawn-out, for which we are very thankful. At the end of September we lost our son and b...
Monday, November 1, 2021

Ben Hager’s Master Plan to Save the MDB Class

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 by Tom Waters Forty-some years ago, when I was a precocious iris-obsessed teenager, I convinced my mother that our vacation to California...
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Monday, August 2, 2021

The Classic MDBs

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 by  Tom Waters The world of dwarf and median irises was revolutionized in the 1950s when Paul Cook and Geddes Douglas crossed the dwarf spe...