SPEC: pallida bloom season
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- Subject: SPEC: pallida bloom season
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@digitalpla.net>
- Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 11:24:49 -0600 (MDT)
> 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,
and Linda Mann replied:
> 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,
The 1939 Checklist labels both I. pallida and PALLIDA VARIEGATA as
midseason bloomers. I do not have the species form, but have been growing
PALLIDA VARIEGATA for about eight yers. In the first location I planted it
in, it always bloomed midseason to late, never starting until well into the
midseason period of blooom. I moved it four years ago, and since it has
always bloomed early to midseason, always starting no later than the first
two or three days of the midseason period. If one cultivar can consistently
vary to that extent in its bloom season in the same garden, it seems that
analogous differences in environmental factors might explain the
discrepancy noted by Donald and Linda.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@digitalpla.net
