Re: Bad form (was "Colonies" vs. "Little England")
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- Subject: Re: Bad form (was "Colonies" vs. "Little England")
- From: E* G* <e*@moose.ncia.net>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:51:53 -0700 (MST)
Bill Shear wrote:
>One of the great dangers presently is of TB iris becoming only collector's
>items, rather than plants the "ordinary" gardener would want.
Just when I was going to rethink my TB 'position'....I am certainly
an 'ordinary gardener'...uhm.
>To some extent, I think this is built in to the TB gene pool. My
>impression is that the TB species are mostly what we would consider "late
>pioneer" species ecologically, that are invaders of somewhat disturbed
>habitats (hence their need to be divided and reset frequently in gardens).
>They may generally disappear from mature environments like a closed-canopy
>deciduous forest. Hence they do not respond well in gardens to crowding
>(pioneers are not good competitors in a crowded environment) and rapidly
>decline if they are not dug and reset every few years (the equivalent of
>entering a new disturbed environment). All ths is perfectly speculative of
>course since I have no real data on the ecology of the species!
When is your book being published again? This sounds so interes-
ting...:-))
Ellen Gallagher e_galla@moose.ncia.net
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