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>Charente-Maritime is on the West coast, near the Atlantic, above Bordeaux.
 
>Here, the sea moderates and we have a temperate climate : usually winter is mild and summer not too warm ...with few exceptions...of >course.
>In our aera, we can find plants as Iris sibirica (who remains since the last glaciation) and other ones as Iris spuria maritima (who is a >mediterranean one).
 
Jacky,
     Thank you for letting us know.  Does it ever snow there, or does the sea moderate the weather too much? 
 
      I am in the USA state of Florida.  Where I live is about 90 miles north of Tampa, and about 25 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico and about an equal distance southwest of Ocala.  I am in an area with the coldest winter nights on the Florida peninsula, and the hottest summer days on the Florida peninsula.  Even yesterday, we had the highest temperature in the continental USA.  The weather can vary from bone dry to deluge.  While outside normal Hurricane tracks, they can happen here.  In 2004, we had the eye of two of them come right over us. 
     There are some native Irises in the swamps, but one has to be careful because of plant preserves and what is found in Florida swamps:  Alligators.  While not near as aggressive as the Crocodiles shown on TV, surprising an Alligator is not a good thing to do.  Back to Irises, the climate limits what I can grow, but I have some.  One of them is Iris virginica, which is shown here.  It is native in a swamp over toward the Gulf of Mexico.  My plants came from a commercial source – Iris Country I think. 
 
Mark A. Cook
b*@bellsouth.net
Dunnellon, Florida. 

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