Re: Iris cretensis (aka: unguicularis)

At 03:55 PM 12/17/2004, you wrote:
At 08:19 PM 12/16/2004, you wrote:
Dennis' you are surely blessed with good luck. I bought one, germinated three more from Signa seed. All four went to the great bed in the sky. I felt the demise was too much rain. It has been wet '03 and '04.
 
Good luck on continued success. It is good to see they can be grown successfully. Please pass on your secrets, be it experience or black magic!   
 
Al Bullock
Z7 NoVa


Those darn computers!  :-)  I think my secret is just plain dumb luck.  As far as I can tell these things don't suffer from summer rain or winter cold.  Remind me in spring time and I'll send you some of mine.  Maybe they have tougher genes or something.  <G>  Mine have been fruitful and multiplying since I first got them in autumn of 1998.  (A friend from Greece got them from a garden club he's in... purportedly from plants or seed obtained from a wild population in Crete.)

Dennis in Cincy

I forgot one more thing.  Although I haven't got an update from him lately, Bill Shear had been successful growing mine in his outdoor garden.  I think he's in Virginia, like you.  I sent them to him back around 1999 or 2000, I think, when I divided & repotted mine.

Dennis in Cincinnati
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