SPE - reticulata
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- Subject: SPE - reticulata
- From: E* <E*@aol.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 18:27:52 -0700 (MST)
Back to reticulatas:
Today in a greenhouse, while buying lots of 4-5 inch pots of anything in
flower (viola, Rieger begonias, bromeliads, cyclamen) I encountered some
potted iris.
The color printed tag read iris pumilla (2 l's). The person on duty said they
were reticulatas. All were in full bloom so if purchased there would have
lttle bloom left for you at home.
These plants had little foliage but tall and very large flowers. They flower
was about eight inches from the soil line. The color was between purple and
red, deep and rich. Maybe the best iris color I have seen. Several of us on
that trip were impressed with this flower.
Upon checking every photograph I could find, it probably is a reticulata.
And, it is greenhouse forced. I have not succeeded in establishing reticulata
from mail order so nearly bought a few pots.
What about great big reticulata blooms? I thought if this iris was shipped
into a greenhouse here with an incorrect label someone beside me must have
also seen it in a greenhouse with spring bloomers.
Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY
zone 4 - snow in patches, frost still in ground
