Re: Pacific Coast Iris etc.
- Subject: Re: Pacific Coast Iris etc.
- From: L*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 2 Mar 96 08:38:07 MST
jay - be sure and let us know when your price list/catalog is available.
will you be selling seeds as well? i will fuss over plants some when i
first get them but always have semi-naturalized (=neglect) growing as the
untimate goal. by planting a mix of hybrid seeds, only those that tolerate
growing conditions here survive, so i do a little natural selection of my own
at the beginning. that is much harder to do with picking named varieties.
nobody has answered my question about the pacifics tolerance for competition
with other plants, like weeds and grass. i guess everyone who grows pacific
coast iris keeps them out of the weed patch! how about in nature? do they
grow and bloom in dense ground cover or are they out there in the woods as
isolated clumps? around here, most of our spring woodland wildflowers make a
dense ground cover in rich woods, then stay as foliage trhogh the summer. in
drier upland woods, there are hardly any spring flowers, and only a few here
and there in the summer.
as soon as it warms up again, i guess i will stop asking so many questions!
linda mann e tn usa
p.s. as a commercial grower, you have to spray for disease control. in my
garden, if they rot or spot and die, that's their problem - i plant something
else. so if these pacifics decide to get crown rot after they get rained on
in the summer, i will mourn their death and try some other experiment, but
thanks for the warning.
i wonder if that seaweed stuff is available here? i do (usually) remember to
fertilize and lime those that need it, so could probably pour seaweed on my
spotty iris occasionally. does it have to be sprayed? .
