RE: Anchorage garden

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Mark,

 

I thought I would go ahead and answer this to the group, too.

 

Iris pseudacorus blooms well here – not that I know how it blooms anywhere else.  The clump in the earlier photo had just been divided (and already is too big!) did not have the blooms high as usual.  I think that was because things were extra dry here and I did not have time to water.

 

I also have a double flower form and a variegated leaf form.  The variegated form has not bloomed much, but both plants just happened to be near the roots of shrubs or trees and probably too dry.  In someone else’s garden I have seen an ivory-colored one but I cannot recall the name just now.

 

We have cool usually moist soils and cool summer days (seldom 70*F or higher with nights in the high 40’s or low 50’s) so I think that is why we do not have to plant I. pseudacorus in any specially wet areas and still get huge leaves.  I have no experience with it anywhere else to know what the growth habit or habitat is like for the rest of you.

 

Debbie

Anchorage, Alaska