Re: OT: COMPANION PLANTS FOR IRIS

--- In iris-talk@y..., "robert stewart" <crusher4@w...> wrote:

>>> Thats neat about the peonies and sib's.  Do you think Japanese 
Iris would multiply as good as the Sib's.  

I don't know. JIs do not, as a rule, increase rapidly up here due to 
our short growing season. After all my posts about mixed borders, I 
must say that I _do_ give JIs special care that I do not afford my 
other perennials simply because they seem to need it here. On this 
property I have lost some JIs every year which I didn't do at our last 
house 30 miles east of here. Still trying to get a handle on the 
reason....this soil is just a little more alkaline but not enough to 
make (I don't think) a huge difference but I may be mistaken. We are 
still on the acid side of neutral. They are mulched and watered, etc.

The short answer is in my first three words. :) I used to plant 
daylilies and JIs in close continguous beds since they have the same 
bloom period here in this Zone 3 and I like a lot of color at once 
rather than patches here and there.

Ellen
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Ellen Gallagher
Berlin, NH



 

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