Re: SPEC: Iris tectorum
From: Pat Bass <bpbass@gj.net>
william b. cook wrote:
> From: "william b. cook" <billc@atlantic.net>
>
> > thatI. tectorum likes shade. Maybe it just resents drying, I have both
> the blue and the> white, I prefer the latter, and think it may deserve the
> title of THE
> most> beautiful iris blossom. The seedlings are from the white form.
>
> Lloyd,
> I think you are right about Iris tectorum resenting drying. Letting
> it bake in summer probably costs it some of its cold tolerance.
> You are right about the white form. It is incredibly pretty.
Mark and William,
Don't know if this adds anything or not, but when I lived in Kansas my blue
tectorus was in pure sand, very dry in summer, with temperatures well over 100
many times. It was on the east side of the house with deep afternoon shade, so
that may have helped, but it did very well with many blooms. The white one I
had in the same soil under a redbud tree, but in the wind, didn't do well and
finally died. I like both of them but don't have the white one right now.
Pat in CO where we had about two inches of snow but mostly gone now in two
days.
> Mark A. Cook
> billc@atlantic.net
> Dunnellon, Florida.
>
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