RE: what's your favorite?


Hi Dennis,
yes that's a little view of the country beside my house on the back of the picture.
That's an apricot's field and you can see some olive trees on the left.
 
I could show you more pictures of my fields but I think it may be a bit OFF TOPIC here in this list ;-)
 
M. polystachya it's a marvelous species, it's the only Moraea of mine which flowers in the winter (the first flowers was appeared before Christmas).
It resembles a lot to M. sisyrinchium, a native italian species, but has bigger flowers and a longer (so, so longer) flowering period.
Plus, M. polystachya has more open flowers together on the stems (2 days lasting) when M. sysirinchium only few per day (half day lasting).
 
I think it should be not so happy if covered by your snow, in this time ;-)
fil.


To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
From: dkramb@badbear.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:36:48 -0500
Subject: Re: [iris-species] what's your favorite?


Oh. My. God. Is that really the view of your property?! I'm seriously
jealous now! What a lovely view. And what a lovely Moraea.

Of course I'd be happy to trade seeds with you. I don't have anything
too exotic, but I have started a small collection of Iris fulva. I'm
also trying to collect new types of Iris tridentata and Iris
brevicaulis. I'm kind of getting rid of a lot of modern cultivars of
Iris to make more space for the species. I think they are more exciting.

I don't have many types of Iridaceae... well, just a few native
Sisyrinchium species (I hope I spelled that right) and I've tried
growing Libertia, Olsynium, Cypella, Tigridia, Rigidella, and
others..... but winter here is just too cold. My best success has been
Alophia species, but I have to treat them as annuals. And they don't
make seed for me every year. So even Alophia are challenging for me.

You should really join PBS. :-)

Dennis in Ohio (where it snowed again today)


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