Re: SPEC: plant hunting
- Subject: Re: SPEC: plant hunting
- From: D* K*
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:42:06 -0500
From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net>
>Hi, Dennis. I checked my journal and found that in both '96 and '97 our I.
>cristata and I. verna bloomed around the first of May in our garden in
>Louisville, Kentucky. However, in '95 the cristata bloomed on April 21.
>Everything else was early that year, too. I even noted that I saw a firefly
>in mid-April -- it must have been really confused!
Judy, thanks for the great information! I guess I can rest easy for at
least another month before I begin trekking through the woods for iris
blooms.
One of the reasons I wanted to go to West Virginia was (a) it's not too far
from Cincinnati, and (b) according to Fritz Kohlein's book, there is a form
of Iris verna there that is possibly an undescribed species. Not that I
could distinguish the difference, but hey, I'll never know unless I try!
Okay, so that was 2 reasons. I never said I could count.
>Speaking of wild irises, are you familiar with Sam Norris from Owensboro, Ky.?
>He collected and propagated an I. cristata form from around Leitchfield,
>Kentucky, and I just learned that Joe Pye Weed Garden is offering it in their
>catalog this year.
I saw that in their catalog too. What caught my eye was the size of the
bloom. Impressive! I also have some seeds of Sam's Pardanthopsis and
Belamcanda that you mentioned. My seeds aren't the hybrids, but the actual
parent species of the candy lilies.
Dennis (in Cincinnati)
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