A lot of maples have a web of surface roots. I don't get this with black
walnuts, which seem to have deeper roots. I do trim off overhanging
branches that shade garden.
I havn't grown any siberian near walnur trees. Have grown pseudacorous,
but I suspect that it takes some work to kill them.
Chuck Chapman
-----Original Message-----
From: Joan Cooper <joan78@comcast.net>
To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:17 am
Subject: Re: [iris-species] you know ?
I had pseudacorus and versicolor growing there so
thought it was safe, but now know that some siberians are subject to
problems
under the black walnuts though some aren't. Too much shade to have tried
bearded
iris there, but part of the shade is some kind of maple--a weedy
one. Joan Cooper
----- Original Message -----
From:
irischapman@aim.com
To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:29
PM
Subject: Re: [iris-species] you know
?
I'm surprized that there would be a problem with black walnut. I grow
bearded iris right beside them, and they grow just as well as all the
other iris that are not next to these trees. When field is planted in
alfalfa, then another story. A wide patch of absolutly no growth of
alfalfa in a wide area. But absolutly no problem with the iris.
Except
when a 35 ft long branch came off the tree, but that was physical
damage. The iris planted next to maple, and next to white pine do
suffer.
Chuck Chapman
-----Original Message-----
From:
Joan Cooper <joan78@comcast.net>
To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
Sent:
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 9:01 pm
Subject: Re: [iris-species] you know
?
Happy iris time has arrived for you!! This E-mail
came through
just fine so whatever you are doing is working for me. I
wonder if
you
or any one else getting this can tell me a source of Iris
magnifica,
the
only Juno I had last for several years. The year it got away we had
unseasonably
warm Feb. and March, dropping down to -8 F on April 8--it
was already
up about a
foot and did not survive. Another iris I''d like
to find is one I
called
"Horinaka's red". I got it and a nice bright
blue from Horinaka several
years
ago. Both were very nice, but
especially the red and I think I lost
them by
by selling and
sharing too many and then planting the rest too close
to
my20Black Walnut trees. If anyone happens to have gotten either of
them
from
me or anyone else, I'd sure like to hear about it. I have Snowdrops
and
Trillium
rivale poking up and ready to bloom.
0
Joan
Cooper
Roseville
Minnesota
----- Original Message -----
From:
Jim
Murrain
To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
Sent:
Monday, March 23, 2009 4:31
PM
Subject: [iris-species] you know
?
Hey all, the
iris season has arrived in KC,
there are
already 4 junos and I. tigridia blooming.
The wind is fierce today so
they aren't looking
their best. The English Iris I planted fall
2007
have made it thru another winter. I got a
couple
varieties and need to get any others available.
So
much more reliable then Dutch Iris here.
The Dutch come up in the
fall and get winter
killed, the English are much more reserved
and
wait until spring to emerge. Nothing blooming I
haven't
sent photos of to the group in past years
yet. Last weekends weather
was20perfect even
tho rain and clouds were forecast, and it was
15
degrees warmer then forecast. All those satellites
and
computers don't seem to have improver weather
predictions
much.
Yes I'm hitting return a lot for people that ca
n't
seem
read my posts.
Jim
Jim Murrain
8871 NW Brostrom Rd
Kansas
City, Missouri 64152-2711
USA
Zone 6
