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- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 11:23:31 EDT
Bill Shear wrote:
>Most of the time it is minor (major this year!), but I am
probably not as meticulous as Anner in keeping it down. I think her
suggestion about getting the stuff out of the garden is especially good.<
I have major leaf spot on my *oldest* bed here on our new property.
Four newer mostly bearded iris beds are almost pristine (except for
weeds and wild flowers that I allow to visit in May). I did try to
get the "stuff" out of the garden but it got ahead of me with three weeks of
steady rain and high humidity. Almost no real good garden time in our mud
season.
The SDBs have the worst leaf spot I have ever had in my garden. The MDBs are
blooming well and some are still to come. Far and away, SELF-EVIDENT is the
hands-down fav. so far. A perfect little MDB
while ZIPPER looks like an improved I. pumila with that bright blue beard.
But some of the worst offenders like JEWEL BABY (SDB) are blooming
magnificantly...incidentally the first SDB bloomed yesterday in the cold
weather and we have only three out so far, JEWEL BABY, ORANGE TIGER and
ROSIE LULU (a SDB luminata - one of Bee Warburton's legacies to us).
One of the I. cristata bloomed yesterday and it is a TDF blue with a
large white area on the falls - a typical blue cristata. The I. cristata
alba should bloom tomorrow.
So cold here that the flowers are lasting literally weeks - the daffodils
and tulips are still going strong with some tulips still in bud and even
some daffs. If only the irises would last that long.
The most floriferous MDB out of many is RAINBOWS which is a flower I don't
particularly pant after and it is blooming down in the foliage
as so many are this year.
Cheers,
Ellen
p.s. to Jeff Walters: the SIBE seedlings from the seed you sent last
year have purple-based foliage - doing well but too small to flower this
year :(
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Ellen Gallagher/ Berlin, NH,USA/ Zone 3
N. White Mts. in the "Great North Woods"
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