Re: SPEC: unknown
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] SPEC: unknown
- From: K* W*
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:55:12 -0800
I live in a Zone 9 with dry summers. I have lost quite a few
reticulatas, but I have several clumps that come back every
year and give me some blossoms. I see buds developing
now. They are growing in full sun. Note, these were planted
in the fall as Bill suggests and were not forced.
Ken Walker
Concord, CA USA
Bill Shear wrote:
> 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.
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