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RE: Iris seeds germinating

 

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Hi Mark, sorry to be so long getting back to you. Here's a picture of FRECKLETEC...you can see where the freckle part of the name comes from. Unfortunately, it's not nearly as good a grower as the others. I originally got it in 1998 so it hangs in there but just doesn't multiply very well. As to PALTEC, it's a very good grower and wants bearded iris conditions...essentially no water. Don't know of bearded iris being grown in southern Louisiana.
 
Greg McCullough
Iris City Gardens
Primm Springs, TN (just southwest of Nashville)
 
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Subject: Re: [iris-species] Iris seeds germinating

 

>Hi Walter, I. tectorum is probably our favorite iris. We grow the species, alba, variegated, WOOLONG (collected by Jim Waddick in the >Wolong Valley China), FRECKLETEC, SUN MOON LAKE and a variety that Joan Cooper brought back as seed from Taiwan which looks >identical to SUN MOON LAKE. We also grow the tectorum/bearded cross PALTEC. Tom Silvers in Maryland has been working on >bearded/tectorum crosses for years now. Please keep us appraised of your progress with them....
 
Greg,
       I find this very interesting.  Do you have a photo of FRECKLETEC to post?  I had some bloom this past sprin on the Tectorums I got from you, and they have good increase.  Shown is bloom on WOOLONG from this past April 24.  Maybe they will do here.  This leads me further.  I wonder if PALTEC would grow here?  I had it when I lived in Kentucky and it was one of my favorites.  I hope Tom posts some photos of his Bearded/Tectorum crosses.  Maybe this will open the door to more Irises being able to be grown further south?
     Also, on Irises, I have heard before of a few people claiming they had success with a FEW Bearded Irises on the Louisiana Gulf Coast?  I wonder what some of those Irises are, and if they would grow in similar climates in the southeast?
 
Mark A. Cook
b*@bellsouth.net
Dunnellon, Florida.                 [Where I had a bloom on Trimezia today.]

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