(IB) 'Invasion In Pink'

1993, Boswell

'Invasion In Pink' (Carl Boswell by Barbara Schmieder, R. 1993). Seedling #84-79-I. IB, 18-20" (45- 51 cm), Early to midseason bloom. Standards and style arms clear light pink (RHS 36C); falls pale pink (36D) in center, shading to light pink (36C) at haft and edge; beards tangerine pink (28B) in throat and on hair tips on paler pink base toward end; slight sweet fragrance. Involving: 'Buffy', 'April Melody', 'Yum-Yum', 'Campus Flirt, 'Java Dove', 'Java Charm', 'Palisades', 'Little Lynn' X 'Pink Cushion'. Lynn & Peter Markham 1993.

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From AIS Bulletin #289 April 1993 Introducing INVASION IN PINK. (Boswell/Schmieder 1993)-IB-18-20"-EM. Boswell sdlg. #84-79-1. (Complex seedling lines involving Buffy, April Melody, Yum-Yum, Campus Flirt, Java Dove, Java Charm, Palisades and Little Lynn) X Pink Cushion. The cleanest light, true pink, shaded very slightly deeper at hafts and edges of falls, with harmonizing beards in a more intense red-pink. A tailored flower with domed and closed standards and well held semi-flaring falls, it looks delicate but holds both shape and color for days. 2 branches, up to 5 buds. A landscaper's dream of an iris, quickly forming huge clumps with dozens of bloomstalks and creating a mass display in the truest pink color we've seen in this class. In the Schmieder garden in 1992, it had 47 stalks on a three year plant, with plenty of increase left over, and was threatening to annihilate the adjacent penstemon-hence the nickname hung on it by garden visitors-"Pink Weed!" No weed for quality, though-HC 1992 with 9 votes. $15.00. Lynn & Peter Markham.

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