Re: SPEC: unknown
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] SPEC: unknown
- From: B* S*
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:39:26 -0500
On 2/18/02 2:21 PM, "Bill Shear" <wshear@hsc.edu> wrote:
> Undoubtedly a reticulata of some kind--they appear in various stores this
> time of year, just like cyclamens, crocuses, etc.
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> 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.
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> 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
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The "s" got misplaced. It's 'Natascha.'
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