Difference: TbSilverSpoons (r12 vs. r11)
■(TB) 'Silver Spoons'
1987, Byers 
'Silver Spoons' (Monty Byers, R. 1984). Seedling# B-8-6. TB, height 36" (91 cm). Midseason to late bloom. Ruffled pale silvery blue, fading to white; very pale blue beard lightly tipped yellow in throat; long self spoons; slight sweet fragrance. 'Sky Hooks' X 'Cease-Fire'. Moonshine Gardens 1987.
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| "SILVER From AIS Bulletin #265 April 1987 Introducing SILVER SPOONS ('87?), so very well named, is the finest, (Byers '87) Sdlg. B-8-6: Sky Hooks X Cease Fire. TB, 36", M-L. Pale silvery blue self including beards and long spoons or flounces. A so-so grower here but was exceptionally vigorous in San Jose where it was a much admired convention guest. Nicely formed, very ruffled and smooth light blue flowers of heavy substance on excellent well budded stalks. A most consistent producer of excellent appendages, usually long graceful spoons, but sometimes it goes all out with wide form expected big wild flounces. No rebloom here yet, but several of an '80's introduction, its sibs have and huge, wild, well-shaped, it has given some nice reblooming sdlgs.-some with good appendages and some with good blue beards. Fertile both ways. $25.00. Moonshine Gardens. consistent flounces in exactly the same color as the flower. If Moonshine Monty continues to use the same highly critical selection standards that Manley Osborne has practiced, I predict the advancement in this area of hybridizing will skyrocket." [Perry Dyer (Oklahoma), “Melrose Gardens” The Bulletin of the American Iris Society, No. 263, (October 1986): 21. |
| "SILVER SPOONS ('87?), so very well named, is the finest, a smooth light blue with wide form expected of an '80's introduction, and huge, wild, well-shaped, consistent flounces in exactly the same color as the flower. If Moonshine Monty continues to use the same highly critical selection standards that Manley Osborne has practiced, I predict the advancement in this area of hybridizing will skyrocket." [Perry Dyer (Oklahoma), “Melrose Gardens” The Bulletin of the American Iris Society, No. 263, (October 1986): 21. |
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