Re: SPEC: unknown
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] SPEC: unknown
- From: B* S*
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:21:20 -0500
Undoubtedly a reticulata of some kind--they appear in various stores this
time of year, just like cyclamens, crocuses, etc.
Enjoy and chuck them out. It's very unlikely you would see them again in a
Zone 9 garden. Reticulatas are not strongly perennial in regions with wet
summers. In any case, forced bulbs rarely recover to bloom again. If you
really wanted t try them, the bulbs are very inexpensive and can be ordered
from most growers of "Dutch" bulbs.
Having said that, I was pleased to note the morning the return for a second
bloom season of at least two of the three 'Katherine Hodgkin' I had planted
a year ago this past autumn. Other reticulatas blooming now are 'George',
'J. S. Dijt', supposed I. Reticulata itself (but probably an old hybrid),
'Springtime' and 'Nastacha'. The last named is new for me this year and is
a very nice, large-flowered near white.
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(434)223-6172
FAX (434)223-6374
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