Re: General garden catalogs



Friday, February 27, 2004, 2:21:44 AM, you wrote:


JM>         I have been receiving a lot of gardening catalogs in the mail. I'm 
JM> always surprised by the lack of knowledge shown by some established 
JM> nurseries. Sometimes even out and out fraud. This ad for a variegated 
JM> iris really takes the cake. I don't recognize the bearded cultivar of 
JM> the flowers stuck into the foliage. However I think the variegated 
JM> plant is Iris japonica 'Aphrodite'. Zone 7 ? Certainly NOT Iris 
JM> pseudacorus variegata !


 Of course, Christy is quite correct it is I.pallida variegata. To
 ascribe this iris to I.pseudacorus don't do honor for nursery which
 sell it. Mostly even beginer separate better beardeds from apogons.


Best regards,
 Edmundas                            k*@delfi.lt




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