Re: Iris aphylla - easy clean up

I am trying to.  I look through my seedlings for plants that shed their leaves.  So far they have not been worth keeping for their lack of other nice qualities.  The "evergreen" ones weren't all that good either.  They were from a 'Halston' (far removed from I. aphylla) seedling line so I plan to look at other crosses with it and other potential parents to work with.  'Hello Darkness' sheds pretty well, but not the greatest grower for me.

A diploid, 'Taj Majal' and some of its seedlings tend to also and am working with them as well.

Would be nice (and easier!) to have a list of modern and older cultivars that shed to work with.

Paul Archer
Indianapolis, IN Zone 5



-----Original Message-----
>From: thomas silvers <tesilvers@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Apr 2, 2009 4:31 PM
>To: iris-talk <iris@hort.net>
>Subject: [iris] Iris aphylla - easy clean up
>
>I was out cleaning flowerbeds the other day and was noticing just how easy it is to remove the dead foliage of aphylla and its first generation offspring.
>As I breezed through the clean-up of those irises and then painstakingly had to pull dead foliage from the normal TB's and also some pallida hybrids... I wondered if anyone had ever intentionally tried to incorporate this easily-cleaned-leafless trait into modern irises.
>I'll bet it's also a big part of the reason why aphylla has been reported by some to be borer resistant - with the leaves coming off so easily, the borer eggs would go with them!
>
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