Re: re:[iris-talk[ Cult:Reverting to White



wmoores@watervalley.net wrote:
>  
> Please help.  Last year I puchased some Better Homes &
> Garden's Blue
> Bearded Irises (Portrait of Larrie).  I planted them in huge outdoor
> pots with a mixture of potting soil and sandy garden soil.  They
> bloomed last year and this year, BUT they are not blue.  Last year
> they were white with a tinge of blue.  This year they are completely
> white (the beard is yellow).  Earlier this year, I gave them a dose of
> lime and also fertilized with 13-13-13.
> 

Walta'

I would suggest to her that she probably never got the blue iris she was
expecting, but received something different instead from BH&G (since she
never saw it bloom blue), and that the loss of the "bluish tint" to
white was probably loss of some nutrient in the planting mix.

John                     | "There be dragons here"
                         |  Annotation used by ancient cartographers
                         |  to indicate the edge of the known world.
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