Re: [Re: OT-BIO-eshjr52]
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- Subject: Re: [Re: [iris-talk] OT-BIO-eshjr52]
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- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:13:53 -0500
From: Noelle Prince Shear <bills@hsc.edu>
> Thanks for the response. We had two different purple irises, a yellow and a
>white. They were all in the same bed at the old place. I messed up and did not
>label them before I dug them up to move them, so I really don't know what is
>planted where in the new place. We live on the coast of North Carolina now and
>the soil is very sandy. Will wait and see if any other colors come out later,
>but over half of the plants have bloomed and every thing so far has come out
>white. At the old place we had very few white ones. Will let you know how
>things turn out. Ed
Clearly a case of simply only the white ones blooming and probably mostly
white ones being moved in the first place. My scenario: The white variety
had grown well but not bloomed much, so there were many unbloomed rhizomes.
When moved to the new environment, the whites decided to get
blooming--maybe like many old irises, they like being dug up and shifted
around. I suspect that there are simply fewer of the other varieties and
what is there has not yet bloomed. We discussed this before: IRIS DON'T
CHANGE COLOR. It's a botano-physiological impossibility. This is very
simply a case of unconscious selection of the white variety, which does
better than the others in the new soil.
Noelle Prince Shear
Rte 5, Box 1950
Farmville, Va 23901
(804) 392-8721
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