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
