SPEC: Iris foetidissima

Bill, at this time of the year, we are just moving from freezing to
warm, no borers would dare to show their face unless they are very small
larvae.  There are certainly no voles in the area of the city where I
live.  As I did my graduate work in the Bureau of Animal Population,
then the world centre of vole studies under Charles Elton, I know my
voles although I never worked on them.  There are a few mice in some
years - they seem to go for the Dianthus, particularly the very nice
plants.  They eat the stems and leaves, not the roots and the
foetidissima leaves were in top shape, green and tall thoughout the
winter.  Death seems to have come with the warm weather when the leaves
turned brown and are no longer connected to any roots.  In digging up
the plant, the sparse roots seem to be rotted with a dryish rot - not
mushy.  My other plant of this species might still be alive although
obviously sick and so I am not going to dig it up.  It is in a bed of
Siberians that are doing very well with leaves healthy and now up to six
inches

Ian





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