Re: CULT: Foliage Only Irises
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- Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:34:15 +0930
Walter
I'm in a zone 8, I've just bought Baboon Bottom and Blue Suede Shoes, So
I'll watch them. However I have had Frosting for several years. It tends to
flower a bit short but has masses of bloom, both in the neglected and tended
part of the garden. It is very late, usually one of the very last to bloom.
I think it's pretty. Have you tried feeding your recalitrants a bit more
potassium and maybe phosphorus so their roots get a bit more vigourous. I'd
avoid any nitrogen. BTW our pH is 6.1. I know a number of irises that vary
their flowering quite a bit according to pH and soil type.
Colleen Modra
South Aust
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From: wmoores@watervalley.net <wmoores@watervalley.net>
To: iris-talk@egroups.com <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Date: Thursday, 11 May 2000 10:32
Subject: [iris-talk] CULT: Foliage Only Irises
> The following is a list of bearded irises that I have been growing
>for foliage only. Some have been here for five years, a few have
>been moved to different locations in the garden, and all still refuse
>to bloom. They get the same TLC that the bloomers get. The last
>two years have been very good for irises here, and I would imagine
>that more than ninety percent of what I grow has bloomed. Am I
>the only person having trouble blooming these irises? These were
>all bought from the originators or a reliable source, so I feel they
>are true to name. They are in different rows or beds and are
>scattered all over the garden. They are:
>
>Baboon Bottom
>Blue Suede Shoes
>Cherry Lane
>Doodah
>Fantasm
>Frosting
>Gnu
>Gnu Again
>Great Gatsby
>Gypsy Romance
>Jazzed Up
>Lamb's Share
>Misty Lady
>Night Attack
>Oh Jamaica
>Rainbow Goddess
>Saharan Sun
>Spanish Fireball
>Swingtown
>Too Sweet
>Velvet Underground
>Voltage
>Walkara
>
>One that was going to be on this list, Overnight Sensation, finally
>bloomed the other day. It was a big disappointment....just an
>ordinary blah blue bi-tone (neglecta). It did not measure up to its
>name.
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA
>
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