Re: CAT: Bourdillon
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CAT: Bourdillon
- From: h*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:26:49 EST
From: hipsource@aol.com
In a message dated 2/22/00 1:22:28 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jcwalters@bridgernet.com writes:
<< Could this be a reference to the supposed tendency of irises that have been
grown in the same soil for an extended period of time to suppress the
growth of their own kind? Perhaps some of the older types are more virulent
in this respect (?). The reference seems to be to German iris, after all.
>>
Hummm. I read it as cautioning that planting new hybrid varieties with the
older common purples and blues which bloom earlier, by which I understand
pallidas and germanicas, will result in the former being overrun by the
latter with a consequent loss of bloom and subsequent loss of the 'mass' of
the newer irises.
Not that there isn't something in it, of course, if you leave the things
forever, but one does wonder just a bit about the motivation.
Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com
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