SPEC: I.spuria

Claire

I have quite  a lot grown from seed but, unfortunately, cannot give you
a list until the snow has cleared!  The reason is that I only record
"having" plants once they have flowered.  This is because quite a few
die during the planting out stage.  Last year, no systematic flowering
records were taken because I was re-building the house during the
flowering period.

I do know that I have I. spuria muselmanica flowering but it is
mis-identified as it is yellow and that subspecies is blue!

At the Central Experimental Farm gardens that are a number of lovely
spuria cultivars blooming in large clumps.  I will be working there as a
volunteer after the first week of April, if our latest snow disappears
by then. and will record the names of those varieties.  They were so
spectacular, they made me begin raising spurias from seed.  
Suffice is to say that cold does not seem to be a problem.  They like
dry sandy soil, not being moved, being moved in the autumn, and alkaline
rather than acid conditions.

Ian, where I used the snow blower twice yesterday to clear the driveway.
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