Re: SPEC: bulbous irises (dose of reality ;)
From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>
Hi Ellen,
Nothing but crocuses blooming here - and we're only a 5 to 10 min drive from
Ian's. Some daffodils are budding but we still have some snow cover on the
medians and siberians. It should be gone by this weekend. Maybe the
reticulatas and danfordiae will be in bloom then. Some of the beardeds are
showing increase but the siberians that have been uncovered aren't showing
any green yet.
CHOCOLATE MINT, an arilbred new introduction by Superstition has TEN
increases! CRANAPPLE and RUBY ERUPTION are close seconds.
Maureen Mark
m*@ottawa.com
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4)
> From: Ellen Gallagher <e_galla@moose.ncia.net>
>
> To Bill Shear and Ian Efford who wrote about their BLOOMING
> bulbous irises:
>
> Ok, you guys have pushed me over the edge especially Ian who
> purported to be in Ottawa all this time but really lives in
> Toronto in Zone 5 or something....cold-climate turncoat. :)
>
> I was actually out in the garden (if you can call frozen mud
> a garden) and inspected my bulbous irises namely I. danfordiae
> (planted at Ian's urging, BTW and also named I. reticulatae from
> McClure & Z., at Bill Shear's suggestion). Not one mm. of green
> showing anywhere except on one Siberian, some SDBs, IBs and
> MDBs and I mean one mm. You need a magnifying glass to see it
> which I had, BTW. Stop laughing, Bill.
> >
> I can't even be gracious about it...I am too filled with envy.
> Where in heck did I plant those daffs anyway? I think we had
> rhubarb...also tulips.
>
> A grumpy Ellen from the North and I don't mean Northern VA.
>
> :)
>
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> Northern New Hampshire, USA / Zone 3
> Berlin, NH in 'The Great North Woods'
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