Re: CULT: Blooming White
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Blooming White
- From: L*
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 22:33:49 -0700
>I received this today. I know most of the standard things to say and
>ask. (and I am beginning to think that there must be some (set of)
>cultural thing(s) that is(are) going on. In this case my hunch is
>herbicide of some sort that may have caused enough genetic damage for
>multiple year color changes. ? ! ? I don't know if that makes any sense
>at all biologically.
>
John... about 10 years ago I had an English Dykes iris, name forgotten,
that was white and very hardy. I had it in a bed with many others, and I
wasn't as careful in those days to keep the iris divided and given proper
maintenance. After about 3-4 years, most of the bed turned white. If I
hadn't gotten to know this particular iris by it's traits (size/bloom
form/branching), I too would have assumed or wondered if all my iris had
turned white. Even the older rhizomes had died and it would appear that
they were not connected, and it would have been easy to assume that that the
rhizomes belonged to the other colors. But the telltale identification was
the stalk/branching/form of the white, there was no mistaking the variety.
I've yet to see proof that an iris changes color to white. I've got other
historic iris that will easily crowd out and take over a garden as well.
Kitty Loberg
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