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March 4, 2002 - Welcome
97-AG-6 started to open for the first time yesterday.
As you can see it looks quite interesting in terms of its veining, and colouring. Of particular interest is comparison of it to a danfordiae-like hybrid which is also starting into bloom nearby. 97-AG-6 appears to be a true lemon yellow, where as the danfordiae-like hybrid is distinctly orange-yellow.
We'll see if this continues to be the case
It turned quite cold over night. It was a blustery cold -10ºC this morning, but felt much colder throughout the whole day. I made a handful of crosses on Sunday, particularly with flowers that had been open from the previous weekend.
Feb 27, 2002
3 cm of snow fell this evening. Needless to say there weren't any new blooms.
Monday the 25th had been a gorgeous warm Spring day. I only found a couple of new blooms at the front of the house when I got home from work (I had been expecting more). However to my surprise there were more than a dozen F1 sophenensis x danfordiae hybrids open. Quite a few others were showing colour.
Yesterday was wet and cool. Not a whole lot of change, but 97-AG-1 opened, as did a few more sxd F1's in the backyard.
Slowly but surely this web site is getting up dated. 350 Retic pictures are now available. Go to the Photo Index page and click on a link to find a that specific clone. You can click your browser's back button to return to the index and be able to quickly to another photo.
Last night into the wee hours I managed to get our Scout web site up: www.Wonderful.ca. I've got pictures from the Winter camp to post, but that will be later in the week. I should try to first restore the other sites then work on improving them. Your suggestions are most welcome.
To say the least, this is a labour of love.
Feb 24, 2002
6 Reticulas are in bloom!
This is incredible. Normally bloom starts at the end of March here in Toronto Canada.
On Friday (22nd) I had been looking at the garden and found 3 Talish selfs were fully up but not yet open. Naturally I figured they would be the first to bloom (they were last year). However 89-F-5 has taken that honor. By the afternoon two 89-F-5 were open at the front of the house, along with a miscellaneous red-purple hybrid. Two new F2 sxd hybrids were later discovered already open in another bed (97-AW-1, a dark blue; 97-EP-1, a white). About that time one of the Talish hybrids had started to open. A while later 95-CS-1 was discovered with its bud almost fully up.
Without a doubt this is going to be a banner bloom year - both for new blooms, and to see increased numbers of exciting hybrids from recent years.
My web sites are coming along, but 2 weeks ago my 11/4-year-old iMac died. Turns out the unknown problem is on the logic board. It would cost more to fix than get a new computer. Technology these days is such that you can't just desolder a bad component and put a new one in. I didn't get the 3-year Apple Care renewal because I had gone 6 years with my previous Apple 7100 without a problem. I had felt the money was better spent on more memory... such is life.
The memory and hard drive are salvageable. I'm evaluating a used G4 tower at the moment, and putting in a fair bit of time tracking PowerBook prices on eBay (my sons could make good use of one).
I am in the process of making over 1150 pictures available on my various sites. Some 300 are of Reticulata Iris, 250 are Juno Iris, etc.
Jan 23, 2002
I have started this site off by uploading a copy of Reticulata.com. I now have 3 Gigs of space available for all of my sites. At the moment there are some technical glitches that will hopefully be worked out soon so that I can get the other sites moved over as well. What this means is the links to the other sites at the left will not work. If I've built everthing correctly all of the other links will work.
Drop back occasionally. I will have more than 300 Reticulata pictures available soon. I'm in the process of getting my Juno pictures assembled, etc., etc.
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(Click photos to enlarge them)
Original Sea Green (97-CQ-1)
89-F-4 x 89-F-3
Original97-EP-1 F2-50/50/0/0
89-AC-18 x 89-A-1 (?)
Original97-AW-1 F2-50/50/0/0
89-Q-3 x 91-FC-2
Original89-AC-16 F1-50/50/0/0
Can you spot 18 buds showing colour?
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