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Awarded the British Iris Society's Foster Memorial Plaque (2010) and their Hybridisers Award (2016)
Awarded the American Iris Society's Hybridiser Award (2019)
Oct 1, 10 - Welcome My hybrids at  (2010)
For those of you living in Europe, White Caucasus is available for the first time from http://www.Bulbs-Bollen.nl
I was quite pleased with a number of this year's new hybrids. It is hard to pick favorites because they each have their own unique personalities. 03-AQ-1, 03-HW-1, 05-GQ-1 and 03-HW-1 are excellent examples of one of my main goals - to create beautiful new patterns.
Unfortunately we had unusually hot weather (30°C) during bloom at the beginning of April. As a result a lot of the hybrids "melted" before I could hybridize them -- so many were ready to hybridize all at the same time, plus with the heat they didn't last as long as they normally would. Typically during main bloom I focus on the newest hybrids first and get to the older ones when I have a chance. Normally this means one area of older bulbs will be gotten to one day and another the next. This year by the time I had a chance to look at some of the older varieties they were too far along to even try hybridizing. A compounding factor was the upside down dish pans that I use to cover the flowers to keep the bees and other insects from interferring with my crosses, as well as protecting them from the elements: rain, snow, and wind (i.e. blowing the pollen before I have a chance to collect it). In this situation they actually trapped the heat and aged the flowers even faster.
A number of new features have been aded to the web site:
• 'Children' (pod and pollen) have been added to the Individuals pages where applicable
• 'By Year, etc.' shows 1) the hybrids by the year the were crossed, 2) the sxdxc hybrids by the type of cross
• more photos are shown per page (reducing the number of pages slightly)
Note: the 'faster' pages, which load faster because they have smaller photos, have not been updated.
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Some Of 2010's Wonderful New Hybrids
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(Click photos to enlarge them)
Original 04-EN-1 F3-75/0/25/0
98-PR-4 x {98-OO-6 + 98-OO-8}
Original05-BL-1 F4-82/18/0/0
01-IV-1 x 00-IU-1
Original03-AP-3 F3-63/12/25/0
98-OO-1 x 98-NP-4
Original03-EU-1 F3-50/25/25/0
98-ND-1 x {98-MN-1 & 98-LQ-1}
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