Re: Re: tall small yellow sib seedlings

 

Dan,
      That sounds like a great way to do that.  There is no telling what variations you may find among the volunteer seedlings.  

Mark A. Cook
Dunnellon, Florida USA     
USDA Zone 8b

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 6:47 PM, Dan Mason & Marilyn Stoffel d*@tbaytel.net [iris-species] <i*@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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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