I just checked my white and I have one bud showing color on a snakey stem. Wehave had Terrible volatility in the temperatures here this spring, with both near freezing temperatures and temperaturs above 85F in the same week. I'm glad you have Woolong. I grew that until I decided to focus on the white form. I've had the white from several sources and not noticed any difference. Mine originally came from SIGNA as seed, donated by Nancy Goodwin in North Carolina.
I keep feeling like you might be able to do something with some of the Mediterranean things. Also foetidissima.There was a variegated clone of that in commerce in North America and Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Everyone was selling it. Makes me wonder if it came true from seed.
Cordially,
AMW
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From: Mark A. Cook <bigalligator@bellsouth.net>
To: iris-species <iris-species@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 1:47 pm
Subject: Re: [iris-species] Iris tectorum
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>Mark, I don't want to be rude, truly, but there are better forms of that species around.
Anner,
I have a white Tectorum and also WOOLONG, but they have not bloomed yet. The one thing about this blue one is that it is one of few Irises I have been able to grow here.
Mark A. Cook
b*@bellsouth.net
Dunnellon, Florida.
