Re: What can I plant with iris?
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: What can I plant with iris?
- From: t*@Lanl.GOV (Tom Tadfor Little)
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:47:45 -0700
Monica writes
:I would like to plant some annuals around my irises to fill in the empty
:space. What kind would be best? I live in Central Alabama zone 7/8.
Monica, I've had very good results using sweet alyssum between the irises.
It starts blooming after the irises finish and goes on and on and on...past
frost. Since the plants are low and shallow-rooted, they don't seem to
compete with the irises at all, and the irises still get the sun and air
they need. It really keeps the iris bed from looking like a graveyard all
summer, which is important in my small garden.
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Tom Tadfor Little tlittle@lanl.gov -or- telp@Rt66.com
technical writer/editor Los Alamos National Laboratory
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