----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:33
PM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Strange BATIK
bloom
ROUND UP? Not a chance...I am organic
(but not certified), and my neighbour is also, has lived there for years,
never uses chemicals...only PULLS the weeds (like I do) I could tell you some
nightmares about what Round Up has done to your water and foods....but no way
has it happened to my Iris.
Anna
*Round Up free zone* so sure, we have
some weeds, but they are HEALTHY weeds (and my goats and llamas and horses
sure love to eat them)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 7:00
PM
Subject: RE: [iris-photos] Strange
BATIK bloom
The weird blooms are probably RoundUp damage.
Harold Peters
Beautiful View Iris Garden
2048 Hickok Road
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
I had a Batik last week similar, most
definitely 5 falls!!! I took pics too...and used the pollen on a few
specific TBs...and also selfed it. Wonder what I will get! BTW, yesterday
was at a neighbours Iris garden - she has over 500 named varieties - and
she had several TB with weird sport blooms, very skinny falls with no
frills, even the colors were not quite the same! Wonder if it is the
weather, or what?
Anna
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 6:32
PM
Subject: [iris-photos] Strange
BATIK bloom
Hi, all,
I was on "no mail" for a while but
decided to rejoin the list. I have not
had a great bloom season but I
have had some garden weirdness. I have white
and blue (they look
purple to me, but they're called Zwanenberg's <sp>
Blue)
tradescantia growing under a lilac and near some irises.
They're nice clumps
except for one spindly bit growing where I had
not planted it- looks like it
is IN a clump of STELLAR LIGHTS. Today
it flowered, and the flower is
lavender.
I had a TIGER HONEY
bloom with one fall that was half brown and half
broken
color.
Today I found this. I counted four falls and
four standards but my mom
thought she saw five.
Cheryl
Leigh
