Re: Re: Unidentified Flower

Michael  --  Here at the tip-top of Zone 7 in Virginia, we are able to plant 
the walking iris outside in semi-shade after danger of frost is past.  It's 
spent blossoms root themselves in the surrounding soil.   I experimented one 
year to see if it would winter over outside.  It didn't.  --  Griff


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael" <michael.allen@cox.net>
To: <iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:52 AM
Subject: [iris-photos] Re: Unidentified Flower


> This makes a lot of sense.  Last year we rooted two of the stalks.
> They both put on flowers this year.  We are expecting that we will
> have at least 10 plants at the end of this spring.
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> Any idea about plant preferences.  Should I put it in the ground or
> leave it in pots?  Sun no sun?  I would love to get more of it but I
> don't want to kill it.
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> Thank you for your help!
>
> Michael
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> --- In iris-photos@yahoogroups.com, Robt R Pries <rpries@...> wrote:
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>> Michael; you have what is called a walking Iris
>> becuase the flower stalk will bend to the ground after
>> blooming and form a new plant. It is the genus
>> Neomarica. A very pretty and interesting plant.
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>> --- Michael <michael.allen@...> wrote:
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>> > PS...
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>> > It didn't bloom for three years in Florida and then
>> > in bloomed once in
>> > 2000 in California.  No blooms until 2004 and then
>> > it put on one.
>> > Then last year it put on 3 blooms and this year
>> > about 20.  The flower
>> > open in the morning and then closes at dark and
>> > falls off.  It will
>> > often put out multiple flowers from the same bud.
>> >
>> > Thank you!
>> >
>> > --- In iris-photos@yahoogroups.com, "Michael"
>> > <michael.allen@>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hello Everyone!
>> > >
>> > > Someone recommended this group for me to try to
>> > identify a flower
>> > that
>> > > we think is an iris.  Hopefully someone can
>> > identify it.  The photo
>> > is
>> > > in the photo section.
>> > >
>> > > Thank you!
>> > >
>> > > Michael
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