Re: CULT: Iris Turned White

Mike Sutton said:

<<  In response to the iris turning white:  from personal experience with our
 county spraying herbicides next to some of our stock beds, certain
 herbicides will turn iris white.  The herbicide application can occur in
 the winter and it will still affect the spring bloom stalks.  Usually the
 bloom is somewhat deformed and a little thicker than a usual bloom, the
 bloom does return to "normal" the following year >>

Mike this is very interesting to me. Would you please elaborate on your
statement? I'm interested in knowing, for instance, if the plant--especially
the foliage--looks otherwise normal, so that the visual effect is truly of a
transformation in color, and if the distortion of the bloom is the kind of
thing that would be more noticed on a more recent iris than an older one.  

As I told Joe, that is an enormous number of irises "turning white," and it
did not sound like she meant over a period of years. And how would a slew of
bee pods make a slew of whites--or any one color-- from a slew of different
vibrant colors anyway? And how many white irises--with the exception of a
couple of Lloyd's things-- are vigorous enough to subdue a slew of other
colors? And why is it always white these things turn when supposedly overrun
or overgrown?

Don't understand genetics much, but just curious in Richmond, VA.....

Anner Whitehead
Henry Hall  Henryanner@aol.com
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