Re: SURVIVABILITY
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- Subject: Re: SURVIVABILITY
- From: H*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 13:07:58 -0600 (MDT)
Greetings,
My mother has a large clump of ALCAZAR (Vilmorin, 1910) that has been
blooming and surviving in the same place in the yard with no care and no
division and no problems for at least thirty-five years. I pry off a piece
from time to time to pass on because it is also very beautiful--a lovely two
toned violet with warm touches--but otherwise the new rhizomes just grow over
the old ones and the old ones disintegrate. I keep trying to give it some
sophisticated cultural atttention but Mother says leave it alone or it'll
take over. Superb plant!
Other irises which I have seen in contexts indicating great "survivability"
are QUAKER LADY, HELEN COLLINGWOOD, FLAVESCENS, NANCY ORNE, MOONLIGHT, INDIAN
CHIEF, PINNACLE, HARLEQUIN, HONORABILE, SINDJHKA, GUDRUN and CHENEDOLLE, all
of which are historics. Among the moderns I anticipate that untimately HELEN
RUTH and CORAL STRAND will be known for this quality.
Anner Whitehead, Richmond, Va
Henry Hall henryanner@aol.com
