iris
- Subject: iris
- From: "John, Sue, & Brianna Foster" f*@cyberportal.net
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 06:02:33 -0400
Kent,
Springfield is a bit warmer than me so I'm kind of guessing but I have lots
of dwarf iris blooming and iris crisata right now. Your probably getting the
bigger beardeds blooming right now. Mine have just barely started.
Good patch of crisata or dwarfs would still be going over there though.
Does it look like this?
http://homepage.fcgnetworks.net/buddy/ebpics/CRISATA2.JPG
http://homepage.fcgnetworks.net/buddy/ebpics/CRISATA3.JPG
http://homepage.fcgnetworks.net/buddy/ebpics/CRISATA1.JPG
Not very clear pictures. I bent down to it and forgot to let my camera do
the closeup work.
If you want to start iris of any sort up here you are better off getting
them in the ground before July.
Just had a thought, the bulbous iris should be going there right about now.
English, Spanish, reticula, Dutch iris. Usually lumped together at package
stores as Dutch iris. Not reliably hardy here. I've planted them before in
fall and only 1/2 make it and the following year the numbers are cut in half
again until none are left. They are best treated like glad bulbs. Lifted and
stored until spring. They come in a rainbow of colors. Bulbs are cheap.
Walmart had 50 bulbs for $2.50 so you can afford to play with them a bit.
They come in all kinds of colors. Foliage is long and thin.
http://www.vanengelen.com/catview.cgi?_fn=Product&_category=Iris
Here's a bunch of pictures.
Japanese Iris can range in size from Knee high to 6 feet. Siberian iris are
usually around knee high here.
I was in the Springfield area the 3rd of May for a draft horse auction.
Noticed you were a good 10 days ahead of me greening up. I'm over in NH
sitting on a small mountain. Little bit colder.
Sue
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 18:39:53 -0400
From: gw1944@vermontel.net (Glen Williams)
Subject: Iris Question
Sorry this is not about hostas but I just saw the most glorious clump of
10 " high iris. The blossom was somewhat like an iris and the size of a
small fingernail. They looked like the next step between blue-eyed grass
and a Japanese iris. The leaf was almost identical to that of blue-eyed
grass. I know I have to have this and have never seen it before. The person
to whom it belonged said it was an iris but knew nothing more. She will
give me some in the fall, but I would really like to learn about this
little beauty. Can anyone name what I am looking for. Thanks, glen
"Can devolution be far behind?" Geraldo Rivera
Glen Williams
20 Dewey St.
Springfield , Vermont
05156
Tel: 802-885-2839
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