TB: torturing irises? ancestors
- Subject: TB: torturing irises? ancestors
- From: L* M*
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:04:23 -0400
Over the last 6 years, I've been buying/trading for important ancestral
irises of various sorts - irises that show up a lot in pedigrees of
irises that have done fairly well here in the iris torture chamber of
neglect/gravelly rich soil/frost pocket, plus a few other this n that's,
just to see their growth/death habits. There are a few I still want to
try that I wasn't able to find a source for a few years back, but I've
given most of the ones that I was curious about a trial.
I'm finally getting to sending in a few orders this year - thanks to
reminders by folks whose orders have already arrived! :-(
Anybody want me to torture something in particular this year?
SNOW FLURRY (reputation for being 'tender' in the eastern US) was
interesting - it did quite well here, bloomed reliably, increased fairly
well. Tom Parkhill, local hybridizer who has grown irises here for half
a century, tells me it was impossible to keep alive (rot problems) when
he grew it years ago. My soil is excessively well drained (gravelly
organic), his is normal, plus our winters have been quite mild in the
recent past compared to 'normal' winters. It certainly took some late
hard spring freezes here without too much damage, at least compared to a
lot of modern cultivars.
--
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
iris-talk/Mallorn archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-talk/>
iris-photos/Mallorn archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-photos/>
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