Re: setosa surprise :



On Sep 12, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Ellen Gallagher wrote:

I sometimes put stalks with seed pods in a pail of water (2 inches or so) to ripen because of our early frost (we just missed frost yesterday with morning temps of 34 F degrees (about 1 C). The seed pods ripened nicely but I just didn't take the stalks out of the water.

I pulled out the two stalks and one had grown nice fresh roots and one had this:
 
This is my little Iris setosa:


Holy moly, Ellen! If ever I've seen a reason NOT to snap off spent bloomstalks, that's it! I wonder if any other type of iris, beardless or bearded, does the same thing. Is that "our" setosa?

Laurie

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normal annual precipitation 26-27"
slightly acid, potassium deficient, clay soil

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