Re: shade lovers
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- Subject: Re: shade lovers
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 11:53:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Walter A. Moores" <wam2@Ra.MsState.Edu>
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, william b. cook wrote:
> From: "william b. cook" <billc@atlantic.net>
>
> >
> > Are there any type of iris that like or do well in shady spots with very
> > little sunshine? One particularly dull area in my yard receives sun only
> > in the early morning hours.
> >
> One possibility would be the low growing Iris cristata. It can take a
> lot of shade.
>
> Mark A. Cook
> billc@atlantic.net
> Dunnellon, Florida.
Mark, a few other irises not for the shade in most parts of the
country do well in a shady spot in my back yard. I have a few sibtosas
and calsibes growing and blooming in the shade in my hot, rainy, humid
climate. MAUVE SNOWTOP, a very nice sibtosa in particular, has produced a
massive clump which covered itself with blooms in April. IN STITCHES
is a calsibe that produced three nice stalks on a two year clump. It
bloomed much later than the sibtosas.
My versicolors are in this shade, and i.versicolor ROSEA bloomed
beautifully. The versilaevs are in 3/4 shade. This was the first year
for them but everyone sent up a bloomstalk. They should really do well
next year. I would consider the above plants appropriate for your climate
since they do well in MS.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8 (silent for a long time because I am frantically
digging your orders--Janice Stocks and Judy Keisling, your orders are
coming up this week, I hope)
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