CULT:Nutrients
- Subject: CULT:Nutrients
- From: s*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:01:25 EST
In a message dated 3/15/2001 7:35:34 PM Central Standard Time,
donald@eastland.net writes:
<< And are certain
colors more likely to have variation or is it a combination of cell size and
nutrients? >>
It has been my experience that most irises vary in shade and tone depending
on their diet. Examples below.
PHOENIX (Keppel) was gorgeous (MHO) when grown in a bed beside my house.
Intense beet root red on white with lots of intensity. When grown back on
the hill is was a washed out, uninteresting purple.
CUT CRYSTAL was a gorgeous, laced, warm cream in my side yard. An iris
friend, judge wanted to challenge one at a show that looked exactly like
mine. Apparently, it didn't have the same warm cream coloring in his yard.
His words were, "I've never seen CC look like that." I'd never seen it look
any other way. I convinced him to let it pass.
My own seedling from Highland Chief and Earl of Essex (sib to REBOUND)
bloomed a pretty ruffled brown on white in an area relatively near the same
side yard--50 to 60 feet. (It has poor branching and bud count). However,
when I moved it to the bed here, it's just a washed out reddish brown. Not
eye catching at all. It will probably take the path of the shove this year.
Do nutrients have a WIDE effect on irises? I think so.
Betty / Bowling Green KY USA Zone 6
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