TB Re Soda Fountain Shuffle
TB Re Soda Fountain Shuffle Lockatell 2015
AIS Exhibition Certificate 2013
An early cross pollination combined two tall bearded Eastern derived cool season rebloom varieties in 2004. TB Re Unchained Melody (Mahan, 1999) X TB Re Fautless (Zurbrigg, R.1995) produced seed planted in late December prior to life saving surgery for late Stage Three skin cancer.
Seed germination was good and thirty plus seedlings were planted at Cosby Farm in 2007. Lockatell TB Re Sdlg.#20414-BLD stood out for flower quality, fragrance and rebloom reliability. Flowers are white with a mimosa yellow overlay and faint violet blaze on the falls. Fall flowering has been consistent over the years from California to Pennyslvania. Lockatell TB Re Sdlg.#20414-BLD became Soda Fountain Shuffle in 2009 and introduced in 2015.
TB Re Soda Fountain Shuffle
TB Re Metro Blue
TB Re Metro Blue Lockatell 2015
AIS Honorable Mention Award 2017
Upon seeing TB Re Daughter of Stars (D. Spoon, 2001) at Winterberry Garden in Cross Junction, VA during an AIS Region 4 Spring Meeting, longtime rebloom breeder, Dr. Lloyd Zurbrigg, saw the immense hybridizing potential in the groundbreaking purple luminata plicata. “We should try crossing DOS to my Clarence (Zurbrigg, 1991) seedlings.” Mike's chance to act on his mentor and friend's suggestion came in the spring following his January 2005 passing.
TB Re Gate of Heaven (Zurbrigg, 2004) or Clarence X St. Petersburg (M.Byers, 1990), was Lloyd's last tall bearded introduction over fifty years of iris breeding. It was the first time the medium blue self was in bloom to try a cross pollination with the Spoon rebloomer. Lockatell TB Re Sdlg.#20517-MB saw maiden flowering in spring 2009 and rebloom materialized in the fall. The fragrant Moorish blue self has seen successful fall flowering in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Registered in 2013 and introduced in 2015. Metro Blue became the first Eastern derived tall bearded rebloomer in nearly fifteen years to win an AIS Honorable Mention Award.
TB Re Metro Blue