SPEC: I.douglasiana
- Subject: SPEC: I.douglasiana
- From: I* E*
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:30:44 -0600
With regard to Iris douglasiana, one of the greatest surprises for me
was to find this species flowering in the woods along the north side of
the Ottawa River in Quebec. I was visiting SEPI, an excellent nursery
and seed house owned by a friend which has subsequently closed. This
nursery was located about 25 miles from Ottawa and in a cold area of
Zone 4B. Almost all the seedlings in the nursery were grown in sand
beds constructed throughout the surrounding woods through which paths
had been bulldozed.
Among an uncut area of woodland plants was an iris in flower. My
immediate reaction was to identify it as I. versicolor, which is very
common in the wild in this area. Close examination showed that it was
not, in fact it was douglasiana that had been planted and forgotten.
I was given a piece of the plant but such a transplant in June was
doomed from the start. Since then, I have raised seedlings through a
winter but they have not flowered. May be in 2002. I am now in the
process of trying other PCI seedlings to see if they will survive here.
This winter, however, is not a good test as we do not have deep snow to
protect the plants and it has not been really cold. Lowest has been
about -20C, and that only rarely, rather than what an extreme of -35C
that we might have experienced. On many days, the temperature here had
been the same as that in the Fraser Valley, just east of Vancouver!
Ian, in Ottawa where it was +3C today
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