Rare irises
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- Subject: Rare irises
- From: I* E* &* S* E*
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 17:39:24 -0400
From: "Ian E. & Shirley Efford" <avocet.intl@sympatico.ca>
Dennis asked about Iris zaprjagajewii and Jan put a picture on the
Internet. I should note that there is a photo in the Quarterly Bulletin
of the Alpine Garden Society [vol 66 # 3 1998]and two articles about
growing these rare, and difficult species. In particular, one by Tony
Hall [The cultivation of juno irises] is excellent. There are a number
of good photos in this article adn volume. Tony is the gardener at Kew
responsible for the cold greenhouse and an expert on growing these
desert-alpine irises.
The other person who grows a number, and collects them in the wild, is
Henrik Zetterlund at the Gotenberg Botanic Garden where he has an
extensive cold alpine greenhouse facility. Since he visited me in
Ottawa, I have received a number of seeds of these species but they have
not germinated - apparently a wait of up to ten years is not
unreasonable!
Ian, in Ottawa who has now returned from a month visiting botanic
gardens and will no doubt complete reading the e-mail by Christmas!
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