Re: OT-BIO-eshjr52


From: "Colleen Modra" <irises@senet.com.au>

Also a common problem is that people pull out Great Aunt Agatha's old white
iris and plant their pretty new ones in the same spot. But a few tiny pieces
of the old white get left behind and it soon takes over.

Colleen Modra
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray & Judy Keisling <keisling@swbell.net>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Saturday, 18 March 2000 2:12
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT-BIO-eshjr52


>From: Ray & Judy Keisling <keisling@swbell.net>
>
>Ed - some questions please.  What color Iris did you have before you moved?
Were they all the
>same color where you use ro live?  I have had people tell me that their
blue Iris had bloom
>the next year all yellow, but when I have offered to furnish  iris from my
garden and come and
>plant them  (local gardeners only) and come back the next year to
photograph the different
>colors, I have yet to have some one to take up the offer.  I have had
sports from a plant that
>was different color the the rest of the bloom stalks, But the to change
from one location to
>another may show a slight coloration change due to different chemical and
mineral within the
>new location, but never a drastic change as you show.  Quite often, we have
purchased iris
>from local club sales and mass merchandiser and receive miss labeled
plants.  There is a lot
>of iris talk members out there more qualified to answer this question than
I am.
>Ray Keisling,  Zone 5 (715mi North of high Island, TX and 665mi South of
Rainy River, Canada)
>Liberty, Missouri USA
>
>Ed Hydrick wrote:
>
>> From: Ed Hydrick <eshjr52@netscape.net>
>>
>>  Hi, I am a new subscriber and I want to know if it is possible that the
color
>> of an Iris will change when transplanted to a new type of soil. We moved
from
>> a place with a loamy type soil to a place with a very sandy soil and now
all
>> of our Irises are coming in white. Any help would be appreciated. ED
>>
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