Re: SPEC: I foetidissima
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- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:46:03 +0930
Jan
How is this very dubious nuseryman (want to make sure I never by anything
from him) Tell me off list if you like. The only foetidissima I know is
pinkish yellow (sort of) They're prob some species of beardless.
I got my mis-named Babbling Brook from a packet at a garden/hardware shop.
Is that the same nursery. Does the real Babbling Brook exist in Australia,
I'd love some.
The weather has finally turned cold, just as heaps of my daylilies are
heading up and coming into bloom.
I took 12 different blooms of TB (3 of them seedlings) to the SA iris
society meeting last week, and there were lots of other blooms, including
occasional rebloomers like Green and Gifted and Girls Favourite. Everyone
agrees that this has been the best season for rebloom for ages.
My All American looks stunning, it just opened it's first bud yesterday.
Every mature fan has a full size stem. Should look fantastic by next week if
we don't get any heavy frost. Had only 2 very light ones so far. Very mild.
Colleen Modra
Zone 8 South Aust
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Clark <janclarx@hotmail.com>
To: iris-talk@egroups.com <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2000 12:44
Subject: [iris-talk] SPEC: I foetidissima
>Hi all,
>On my way to visit my mother, on mothers day, I spotted a small country
>market, with a plant stall, and couldn't help myself. Well this chap had
>heaps of irises and unusual bulbs. His TB's were the usual assortment of
>wrongly named plants. I knew this by their names. The all came from a
>certain nursery, who just guessed the names of their irises by the colour.
>How they managed to name a dark blue and white plicata BABBLING BROOK, is
>anybody's guess, but I would have a hard time convincing anyone around this
>area, that the real thing is a pale blue self.
>Anyhow ..... I ended up buying 3 plants labelled:
>I. Foetidissima (yellow),
>I. foetidissima (blue) and
>I. foetidissima (vareigated).
>
>I didn't know there was a variegated form. At least I can see that the
>leaves are vareigated, but am a bit concerned that it might be pallida, or
>even pseudocorus. I shall have more idea when and if it blooms.
>I also didn't know there was a blue form. The photo showed a pale cream and
>soft blue flower.
>Anyone know if all these variations have different coloured berries?
>
>Cheers, Jan Clark
>
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