Re: An iridaceous day

Again Jim's E-mail is four pages wide with a pop-up-like thing for the species group in the middle. Now on the reply it has gone down to one column (3 lines) but the pop-up that interferes with the mesage is gone so I can read the message fairly well Do others have that problem with Jim's E-mails? Or is it just me? It's unseasonably warm here today and I can see two snowdrops!
                                                                                Joan Cooper    Minnesota    Zone 4
 
----- Original Message -----
From: j*@kc.rr.com
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 8:36 PM
Subject: [iris-species] An iridaceous day

Hello all, I was looking around the garden this afternoon and found a self sown Crocus tommasinianus with 9 petals, a semi-double. Pretty neat and something I've never seen in a crocus. I hit google to see if there were any double crocus in commerce. I found only one, a very cute C. chrysanthus 'Goldmine'. Janis Ruksans claims this is the world's first double flowered crocus. Does anyone here grow or know this crocus?
On further wandering I spotted a flash of blue, I had to investigate. The blue was not one, but two open blooms of the Juno Iris 'Sindpers'. What is really amazing is it was very cold earlier this week with a couple nights in the lower teens F. All the junos are up but I was not expecting flowers already. 
The weather forecast calls for mild spring temperatures for the coming week. I shall do my best to enjoy it and not spend all my time working or in garden club meetings.


Jim


Jim Murrain
8871 NW Brostrom Rd
Kansas City, Missouri 64152-2711
USA
Zone 6



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