Re: SPEC: X Pardancanda
- Subject: Re: SPEC: X Pardancanda
- From: l*@hotmail.com
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:56:56 -0000
Congratulations on your Candy Lilly bloom. Before I got into iris, I
fell in love with this plant. A nice big plant will produce dozens of
flowers, AND seeds which are very fertile and also bloom.
What color is yours? I am not familiar with Cherry Nehi. I had one
plant orange spotted; one orange blended, and one which was dark
red/maroon spotted lighter.
Anyhow, the parent plants were eaten by the iris borer this year.
Iris borer killed them because they have very little, if any
rhizomes, and have hollow stems. Great conduits for the borers.
However, I do have the babies. I cut them down, kept them in pots in
the unheated garage for the winter, and they liked it alot. It was
cold but almost never frozen there.
The parents lived outside for a couple of years, before they died,
and seemed to suffer somewhat from the harsh NJ cold, and were late
to sprout too.
I would suspect the Candy Lilly would LOVE Florida. Hope to see a
picture of yours soon.
Laetitia
--- In iris-talk@y..., BigAlligator@a... wrote:
> Today, I had first flower open on a Candy Lily [X
Pardancanda] that I
> raised from seed. This is one of several surviving plants from
seed from
> Christy Hensler. The bloom is a knockout, colored about like a
Cherry Nehi,
> and is about 33% larger than a Blackberry Lily bloom. I hope it
continues to
> survive here. It is in the frost pocket. I took a picture, and
should be
> able to post it on iris-photos when the images are digitalized.
>
> Mark A. Cook
> BigAlligator@a...
> Dunnellon, Florida. [USDA Zone 8b, Heat Zone 10]
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