Re: Spring landscaping
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: Spring landscaping
- From: J* B* <h*@tricon.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 06:29:56 -0700 (MST)
At 10:22 PM 3/13/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Okay, here's a question for the general readership:
>
>I have a friend here who is a landscape designer, and she has (unfortunately,
>in my opinion) landed a wealthy but impatient and not too realistic new
>client. He wants to put blue and purple TBs (generic) along an adobe wall--72
>of them, to be exact. And he wants them blooming this spring. He also wants
>to have a green lawn within two weeks, but that's a different story.
>
>I told my friend that this isn't the generally accepted time to be planting
>iris--she knows that anyway. But worse, I don't know anywhere she could find
>them available for sale at this time of year unless they are potted. So, does
>anyone know of a source for potted not-necessarily-named blue and purple iris
>that would be willing to ship to Santa Fe, New Mexico?
>
>Barb, in Santa Fe, where I'm not willing to dig MY iris in spring!
>IrisMaven@msn.com
You might want to consider tuberous iris, such as German or Dutch. I saw
large numbers of them in pots at my local Evergreen Nursery a couple of
weeks ago in Johnson City, Tenn. These irises are widely grown in
greenhouses for the cut flower trade, and are usually purple or yellow.
James Brooks
Jonesborough, TN
hirundo@tricon.net
"If we can accept that God created the earth, why can we not accept the
earth that he created?"
