Re: Re: CULT: Options for growing irises in a new garden.


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From: Jan Clark <janclarx@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 6:07 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: Options for growing irises in a new garden.

Jan wrote, in part:

> At present it is sink-to-the-top-of-your-gumboots wet. It would not just
rot
> PCI's and Sib's it would drown them.

Jan, I think some i.virginica would do well there.  I have locally-collected
seed which I would be happy to forward, (I don't think seeds need the
phytosanitary rigamarole, do they?).  They produce lovely blue-violet,
nicely branched, species-looking blooms and will even take a bit of shade.
They come in with and a bit after the TBs here. I would guess your climate
might equal our Zone 8 or so? Where they are growing naturally, these either
stand in water nearly all year, especially winter, or are a least very
moist. Let me know. Will be harvesting them in a week or two.  By the way,
they will also grow in a moist bed, not necessarily a bog.

Jim Gibbons
NC Coast, Zone 8a and sandy
jimgibbons1@mindspring.com


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