RE: CAT: Blyth Irises and Bay View Gardens
- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] CAT: Blyth Irises and Bay View Gardens
- From: M* R*
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:26:11 -0700
> I have ordered Blyth varieties from Joe and from Barry
> (Tempo Two) directly. I have had success with the ones shipped direct form
> Australia, but it is tricky to acclimatize them and you really lose a
> year.
> The recent Blyth varieties I get from Bay View (Joe Ghio) are huge healthy
> rhizomes and appear to have been stateside at least 2 years.
> Chad Schroter California, Zone 9
>
Chad (et al.):
I'm in a 9b soCal zone, and have ordered directly from Barry the past two
years. He ships in February, about 5 months early, yet 5 out of 10 have
bloomed the same year I received them, and only 1 of 7 has failed to bloom
well after its first "winter" (I know, we're talking southerrn California
here) in my garden. So at least in my limited experience, acclimatization
has not been a significant problem. In fact, Blyth iris have never done so
well for me in the past.
Assuming you like brown flowers, you should enjoy that Touch Of Mahogany.
And I'll emphatically second the description of "huge healthy rhizomes" from
Ghio, similar from Keppel.
John Reeds, San Juan Capistrano, CA
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