Re: CULT:Nutrients



The most dramatic color change I have ever seen in an iris was in Lady Mohr.  Here in hot southern Arizona it is a dull greenish tan, not very attractive but an excellent grower and an interesting historic.  Once I planted some at our mountain cabin, 6500 ft. elevation, soil mostly rock and decomposed granite.  It grew there for several years without blooming.  One spring I went up and there was the most dramatic iris blooming by my doorstep in gold, deep olive and purple.  In my shock and amazement, it took several minutes for me to figure out that that must Lady Mohr.  Unfortunately, it hasn't bloomed there since.  I think I will prepare a better place for it and move it, hoping to see it like that again.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: lmmunro@hotmail.com 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:16 AM
  Subject: Re: [iris-talk]CULT:Nutrients


  That makes alot of sense. Not having any personal experience with 
  this, but when you look at various pictures of the same named iris on 
  different websites, so many of them have different colors, but the 
  same names. I always suspected it was more than just the camera and 
  lighting.
  This sounds like an interesting discussion. Maybe besides nutrition, 
  it may have to do with drainage, amount of sunlight, soil 
  consistency, acidity.
  Betty, can you identify anything different between your side yard and 
  back yard? 
  Since this is really my first year growing named cultivars, I have no 
  personal experience, but it would be nice to identify factors which 
  encourage rich color, so we don't have to grow too many of those 
  compost-heap candidates.
  Laetitia

  --- In iris-talk@y..., storylade@a... wrote:
  > In a message dated 3/15/2001 7:35:34 PM Central Standard Time, 
  > donald@e... 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
  > Only those who dare to dream can make a dream come true.


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