Iris 'Roy Elliott'
John Grimshaw (Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:28:36 PST)

When I started working for the seed company K. Sahin, Zaden B.V. in The
Netherlands in 1999 there was an old trial bed of seedling Iris labelled "ex
Roy Elliott" growing on the famous Sahin trial ground. These were a swarm of
hybrids apparently derived from I. bulleyana, I. forrestii etc and many were
very attractive, in various colours and shades. None was outstanding enough
to be worth naming as a clone, however. I never found out if they were
seedlings from a clone or were grown from seed derived from Roy Elliott
himself.

At that time we used to send seed to the rock garden societies' seed
exchanges and I recall on several occasions including Iris ex Roy Elliott in
our donations, because I thought that there was potential there to raise
some interesting seedlings. This is presumably the source of Jane's friend's
seedling, which sounds lovely. Nice to know that something good came out of
that seed!

John Grimshaw

Dr. John M. Grimshaw
Sycamore Cottage
Colesbourne
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL53 9NP

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