Re: CULT: reversions (LOWI)

Well, today I had my garden open for the Club garden tour. An acquaintence
(not a club member and not knowing anything of this discussion) who was
wandering around the beds going oohh and aahh, came up to me and said: "You
know, I have always stayed away from growing irises because I have heard that
after a couple of years they go back to white. How do you keep yours from
doing that."

Let me tell you, your jaw will hurt when it hits the side of the raised bed!

(There is a nugget in all this - hang on). She continued, saying that a bed of
irises that she had been driving by for years suddenly turned white. She said
that as far as she  knew the owner had never dug it up, or did anything to it.

So the question is, since we know that soil conditions can affect color of the
same cv from place to place, could soil, bereft of those micronutrients used
by irises. and so poor from years of lack of attention, have that much effect
on color so as to turn the flowers white?

I know, just another perpetuation of the "Legend Of the White Irises" (LOWI
from now on)

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

John Jones, jijones@ix.netcom.com
Fremont, California, USA, Earth, USDA zone 8/9 (coastal, bay) 
Max high 95F/35C, Min Low 28F/-2C average 10 days each
Heavy clay base for my raised beds.
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