SPEC: I. lactea
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- Subject: SPEC: I. lactea
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:45:52 -0600
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>
>
> From: "Walter Moores"
> I have seeds sprouting on I. Lactea and have some plants on
> order. What kind of setting are your plants in? Shade, woodsy soil
> or what? I am just getting started on species and fear I may have
> too much sun.
Walter,
In his book "Irises of China", James Waddick comments. "I. lactea is not a
water iris, but a plant of grassland, dry steppe, and uncultivated places
in China and across the (former) Soviet Union."
I grow lactea in full sun with a water regime like that for spuria -
well-watered through bloom season and dry thereafter until signs of active
growth resume in the fall. I don't think that it would care for too much
shade, though Utah is not "Baja".
BTW, your idiosyncratic use of the term "Baja" seems to have disoriented
Mike Sutton. From a recent posting to the list he appears to be under the
impression that you are located somewhere on the sunny side of Tijuana. (-:
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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