Re: CULT:Nutrients

That is interesting. Why do you think it decided to bloom after 
several years? Was there a particularly mild winter/dry fall or 
something like that?? I am assuming you did nothing like fertilize or 
cultivate the rhizomes the year it bloomed. It would be nice to 
figure out what could be done to encourage iris to bloom more than 
once every few seasons. I was very disappointed with the number of 
iris which bloomed last year for me, as opposed to the year before 
that.
This year I plan to do alot more in the way of keeping them weed 
free, feeding, tilling the soil around them early in the season and 
see if that helps.
Laetitia

--- In iris-talk@y..., "Francelle Edwards" <fjmjedwards@w...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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@h... 
>   To: iris-talk@y... 
>   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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