Re: albino vesper iris
- Subject: Re: albino vesper iris
- From: R* P* <r*@embarqmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 07:00:40 -0500 (EST)
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I really appreciate all the responses; It would appear that full sun would be the best advise, at least in my climate. It is sad that some garden literature has advised shade. But I think one should always be cautious of what one reads and not all garden writers write from first hand experience. I suspect it really is as long lived as most perennials and many require dividing after a couple of years. Perhaps the misinformation is one of the causes of it being rather rare in gardens. Now I need to get some growing again.
Bob, Mine are in pretty much full sun, too. They are in clay soil amended with a fair amount of compost. I had been told, or read somewhere, that they behaved pretty much as if they were monocarpic but mine have persisted for 3 years now with no division. Ken
From: iris-species@yahoogroups.com [mailto:iris-species@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert Pries
While we or on the subject of dichotoma, I would really like to know what conditions have worked best for everyone. Old articles suggested that it should be grown in shade but the same article makes me suspect because it also said it was very shortlived. If I remember correctly Jim Waddick found it growing in the wild in short grassland, no trees with near desert conditions. I feel like I have never given it what it really wants but I do not know what that is.
Sean, Robert, et al, I really like dichotoma too; itâs so welcome at the time it blooms. I also have only the ordinary color, and keep trying to find more interesting colors/patterns. So, add my name to the chorus pleading for seed donations of special strains. Ken
From: iris-species@yahoogroups.com [mailto:iris-species@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert Pries
Sean, Love it!! I have never been good at growing dichotoma but I keep trying. A few years ago I got some seedlings from The Missouri Botanical garden that were only about a foot or a foot and a half tall. They were all white and they had a wide variety of markings. the markings were mostly brown or olive in color. It appears we have not even seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to variation in this species. I wish I could get lots of different ones to grow and play with breeding.
I happened across this photo of a really spectacularly marked albino |
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