Re: Re:Cult:Arils in the North

Carryl,

I'd love it if you could post what Aril Breds that grow well for you in
your zone.  This is the type of valuable information that would be great
to have in the archives.

I'm curious and I know of others that would be interested in this as
well.  May prevent you from having to type several individual E-mails.

Chris , (still a mountain of snow in the yard ;-(

Carryl M. Meyer wrote:
> 
> I am not as far North as some, but am in zone3/4--high mountain desert--the
> same as outer Mongolia--  and here we can grow Arils if they are at least
> 1/2 bearded--tall or medians--some of them do wonderfully in our club
> garden--totally exposed to the weather--nothing to stop the wind--rarely
> have good snow-cover--and many survive and bloom--
> We have discovered-over the years--that it doesn't matter if the bloom looks
> more Aril or more median or tall bearded--
> One of our club members has 1/4 Arils growing--but she has then beside the
> house and mulches heavily with straw every year-- Luella Danielson was up
> here several years ago--and then sent us several Aril rhizomes-- with  most
> of them  lasting a few years--then we had a normal winter--and never saw
> them again--
> Arils are truly beautiful and at times I wish I could grow more of them--but
> the number of flowers per clump vs. the number of flowers for a TB clump-
> the TB's will have 3 or 4 times the number of flowers--with a lot less
> care--
> We do have them at the club garden, mostly because we are trying to show the
> variety of Iris flowers--if anyone is interested in which ones do well
> here--send me a note off line and I will send you a list of them--Carryl in
> western Montana--where we have had one night without frost and two days
> above 50--since early October--had 2 days of spring and now we are back to
> winter--
> 
> 
> 
> 
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