TB: pallida & Stockton
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- Subject: TB: pallida & Stockton
- From: L* M* <l*@icx.net>
- Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 18:28:04 -0700 (MST)
Donald Eaves wrote:
> I'm wondering exactly what my pallida is. You have said it is
> subject to frost many years. Mine, until now, is the last one usually
> to start active growth and blooms very late, so has been well beyond
> our freeze weather patterns and closer toward the cooking ones.
?
Well, I am a beginner at this and I have 'figured out' that what I have
is pallida, but now you have ME wondering. Mine is one of the earliest
to bloom here and is the 'farmyard' iris all over east Tennessee, at
every 100 yr old homestead. Tall, papery white spathes, intensely
fragrant, looks like the pictures, light lavender blue with maybe very
slightly darker falls, rhizomes capable of remaining viable for years
dried up in a box on the porch. It doesn't get frozen out at my house
every year and usually blooms well elsewhere. This is not the one with
variegated foliage.
Can selections of cultivars within the same species bloom at different
times? Seems like the list had this discussion once before - apologies
if we are repeating - I'll check the archives tomorrow.
Has anybody heard when the Stockton catalogs will arrive?
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
almost 90oF on Thurs or Friday, 40oF and falling tonight - if it clears
off, it will freeze again.
