Re: Neomarica frustratus

 

A lot of Irids share this problem of blooms that don't last through the day. I often bring the ones in pots to work so I can watch then through out the day.

While we are on Neomarica ... I have a plant that was purchased from a commercial nursery as N. gracilis. A key to Neomarica was published not too long ago and based on that key my pant is not gracilis.  I'm still not sure what it is but it's clearly not gracilis. If you've gotten N. gracilis seeds from the SIGNA exchange, donated by me, they are not N. gracilis.

Rodney


From: Dallas Patterson <nye@fidalgo.net>
To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 9:57:28 PM
Subject: re: [iris-species] Neomarica frustratus

 

Grow a lot more of them and check them in the morning and mid-day at least. We have 18 bloom stalks now of Neomarica gracilis. We had to unpot all of the plants in the kitchen and ship them by mail across the United States to our other house in the Midwest, pickup the mail shipment, and repot them when we got there. The plants loved it! They proliferated in their pots in the basement window light all Winter, and now they're blossoming their little heads off. Soon we'll have to take them back to the Pacific Coast with us and do it all over again.


From: "Dennis Kramb" <dkramb@badbear.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 10:20 AM
To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [iris-species] Neomarica frustratus

 

Okay Neomarica growers... how do you manage to catch them in bloom!?  My Neomarica has bloomed at least 6 times and I never catch the flowers until they're shriveled up.  So I'm renaming my plant Neomarica frustratus !!!!

Dennis in Cincinnati (thrilled to bits that it's officially spring)



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