Re: CULT: Variegated foliage

In a message dated 6/16/04 10:13:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
victoria@cnx.net writes:

> None of the potted ones offered for sale look to have had any blooms
> and although I was more interested in them for foliage I had thought they
> might be fairly hardy

Hi Moira,

I would be suspicious of potted variegated irises being sold by nurseries.  
They are often mislabeled.  They might possibly be variegated I. laevigata or 
I. ensata, or they might be variegated Acorus.  A few years ago, we came across 
irises being sold as variegated I. tectorum, but they were really I. 
japonica, which is not hardy in our zone 5 or 6.

Dorothy Willott in Northern Ohio

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