Re: Re: tall small yellow sib seedlings

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Marc,

When I first tried growing Siberian irises I grew named tetraploid Sibs.
These irises would increase slowly with cultivation, but didn't prosper,
and never produced volunteer seedlings. These large flowered Siberian
clumps weren't dense enough to keep out grass and weeds on their own the
way species Sibs can.

As long as I own the land my neglected species Siberian seedlings
continue to thrive on their own. It's like having plants that not only
take care of themselves but also make new crosses each year and then
grow the crosses to clumps with no tilling, no planting, no watering, no
transplanting, no hoeing, no weeding, no mulching, no mowing, and no
protection from animals or borers. So I don't really want them dug up
while I can still observe them and can select from them.

Dan Mason zone 3, NW ON, Canada

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On 2017-06-11 7:53 PM, 'Mark A. Cook' hemerocallis1962@gmail.com
[iris-species] wrote:
Dan,

Is there any garden group that could have a project on a plant
rescue? I am glad you are getting some interesting seed grown
plants out of this. When I lived in Kentucky I had some Siberian
Irises and really liked them. Down here, I had the Siberian Iris
'Caesars Brother' to last a few seasons but then it gave out.

Mark A. Cook Dunnellon, Florida