CULT: Louisianas in Florida

From: "Mark Cook" <billc@atlantic.net>

Diane,
     Louisiana Irises grow very well in Florida, but they need lots of
moisture.  Here, I grow them in sunken containers filled with a mixture of
soil [sand] and Canadian peat.  I water them twice per week unless it rains,
and they do fine.
     Some Louisiana Irises have a trait called "summer dormancy" in which
they die back in the summer, and re-emerge in the fall.  That is probably
what you have experienced.  There is also a list dedicated to Louisiana
Irises.  For more information, contact Stephen Hopkins at
watergarden@hargray.com   I am on that list too, but I hang out here as well
since I have a few species Irises.

>     Mark I was in Dunnellon a few years ago to judge a firematics
competion.
> If you have any information on the LA iris in Florida I would appreciate
any
> help you can give me.

     I have been here a little over a year and a half.  Very few people know
where Dunnellon is.

Mark A. Cook
billc@atlantic.net
Dunnellon, Florida.


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