I thought for a long while that I wasn't able to grow arilbreds
very successfully and felt guilty for trying year after year.
This year, I learned what the problem was. Gophers! The ones I
kept in pots in sunny areas actually grew like crazy as long as
they had enough sun. Now that I know the problem is gophers, I
am looking for a good solution and am trying several, but at the
very minimum I can bury the pots in the beds and let them go
until they need to be repotted. The gophers will climb out of the
soil from time to time to eat the plants, but they mostly prefer
to pull the plant down from below which they can't do with a pot.
Yes, I now agree, they aren't so difficult to grow!
Betty Gunther
Los Alamos, New Mexico
On 11/20/2016 11:30 AM, John Baumfalk
j*@cox.net [iris-species] wrote:
Hi all. I hope this may encourage more members to try the
aril
species. They aren't that difficult.
Raised planting areas with perfect drainage built into the
soil.
John B
Aril species in growth
September 2016
In Kansas.
Some started growing the last week of July. This has been
the
4
th
wettest year on record.
April thru September have had from 5 to 8 inches rain
each. August and
September
were over 8 inches. I have not seen summer wetness to be a
problem with
Oncos.
In cinder block bed;
Acutiloba ssp acutiloba
Paradoxa Atrata
Paradoxa ssp. paradoxa
Iberica ssp. iberica
Grossheimii
Kirkwoodii
Susiana
Nigricans
Lineata
Hoogiana Deep Purple
Sprengeri
Paradoxa X iberica
Iberica ssp. elegantissima
In crevice bed
Paradoxa
In Trimmer rescue bed
Korolkowii
Stolonifera Network
In large hypertufa trough
Paradoxa ssp. choschab
In small round trough
Paradoxa
Iberica ssp. elegantissima
Shelkownikowii
Nigricans
In raised sand bed by pond
Lineata
In 18 inch ductile iron trough
Paradoxa
Iberica ssp elegantissima
Acutiloba ssp. acutiloba
Lycotis
Susiana
Small round trough #2
Iberica ssp. iberica
In plastic whiskey barrel trough
Hoogiana purpurea
Hoogiana Deep Purple
Hoogiana Purple Dawn
In old boiler trough
Iberica ssp elegantissima
In concrete pipe trough
Iberica ssp. elegantissima
Paradoxa.
In New plastic storm pipe
trough, 30 inch
Acutiloba ssp. longitepela
Iberica ssp. elegantissima
Korolkowii
In small oval hypertufa trough
Paradoxa Gem of Lori
In another small hypertufa trough
Iberica ssp. iberica
In center sand bed
Paradoxa Gem of Lori
Iberica ssp. elegantissima
Gatesii
Kirkwoodii
Acutiloba ssp. lineolata
Acutiloba ssp. acutiloba
Paradoxa ssp. choschab
Iberica ssp elegantissima
Barnumae
Paradoxa
Iberica ssp. elegantissima
Barnumae
Paradoxa
Center sand bed continued
Sari
Sprengeri
Iberica ssp. elegantissima
Iberica ssp. iberica
Lycotis
Iberica ssp.elegantissima “Pearl of Ararat”
Mandschurica
Lineata
Hoogiana Purple Dawn
In corner gravel bed
Acutiloba ssp. lineolata
Lineata
Korolkowii
Sari
Urmiensis
Hoogiana Deep Purple
Hoogiana Purple Dawn
Potaninii
In sand pile by south driveway
Iberica ssp. elegantissima
In Moline rock bed
Paradoxa
In garden bed by greenhouse
Hoogiana purpurpea
Hoogiana Purple Dawn
Korolkowii
Stolonifera
I have listed each clump of everything in a bed
Many are of different provenance. There are more not into
growth
yet and I have more coming in this year.
