Re: HYB: aphylla, variegata, summer defoliation

>Sounds like I must have mangled what Lloyd said about 'summer'
>deciduousness of variegata.  Maybe he said they are deciduous at the end
>of the summer.   Maybe I made the whole thing up.  Lloyd, do you have
>any idea what I am talking about?  I will go troll the archives again
>and see if I can find it.  Sounds like my 'steel trap' memory bit on air
>this time.
>
>Thanks in advance Rick for checking with hybridizers about what they are
>doing with aphylla.
>
>What is the bloom season for aphylla?
>
>Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
>getting a big kick out of all the folks out there trying to murder my
>gorgeous iris companion plant - henbit.  I have Lamium purpureum which
>is more showy than amplexicaule.  And it has been swarming with wild
>honey and other types of bees this year!
Dear Linda: What I believe I said was that I variegata and iris heavily
descended from it, do semi-dormant in the fall. There are only tiny leaves,
and these stay green all winter, but are quite a contrast to the things
with
I, mesopotamica, whose big green fans often try to grow all winter long. I
liked the tiny short leaves of I variegata, and believed they wint through
our Canadian winters more successfully.  I do not recall speaking of leaves
disappearing in the summer, except in regard to arilbreds. Lovely I BLESS
out again, though it took a week and a half to recover from the freezes.
Lloyd Z in Durham NC
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