Re: TB:Garden:color:help
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: TB:Garden:color:help
  • From: J* W* <j*@yahoo.com>
  • Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 06:13:05 -0700 (PDT)
Betty,

Given the disance that the bed is to be located from the road and the fact that the intended viewers will be in moving vehicles, perhaps the visual impact could be enhanced not only by interspersing darker and lighter colored varieties, but also by planting them in groups of say 3 to 5 of each (that is light and dark, not individual cultivars) together.

Jeff Walters
in upstate South Carolina
(USDA Zone 7b)


--- On Thu, 5/13/10, autmirislvr@aol.com <autmirislvr@aol.com> wrote:

> From: autmirislvr@aol.com <autmirislvr@aol.com>
> Subject: [iris] TB:Garden:color:help
> To: iris@hort.net
> Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 11:24 AM
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm building a new 50 x 4 foot bed which will be visible
> from the road, but
> still 200-300 feet away.  This is to hold my "keepers"
> from the beds I'm
> eliminating for new seedlings.  I'm referring to
> registered irises, mainly
> oncers.  The keepers will be irises that speciffically
> speak to me or those
> that have breeding value.  It will hold approximately
> 70 clumps.  This will
> not include rebloomers being trialed.  They will get
> another bed below my
> summer rebloomers in the garden proper.
> 
> This is the first bed that will be in view of the
> neighborhood.  The garden
> proper is below the crest of the bank and can only be seen
> from a distance
> down the road.  Anyone focusing on the road would not
> know it is here.
> 
> I tend to like either bright or dark irises. 
> Currently working bi-colors,
> bi-tones, reds, black, orange, etc..  Trying to put
> color into the rebloomers.
> Most of my light colors are among the rebloomers and they
> won't be in this
> bed.  I like any pastel with red beards so those are
> exceptions.
> 
> My guess would be that only about 25% will be pastels,
> maybe less.  There will
> be some bright things such as Lovely Seniority, Man About
> Town, Mastery,
> Braggadocio etc..  I'm guessing I should alternate
> these (pastels & brights)
> with the darks for best impact?  Rather than putting
> the pastels in the middle
> row or some other placement?  I do a matrix/staggered
> format in the beds so
> the middle row could give an alternate appearance from the
> road.  (liking this
> better--talking myself into it!)
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Betty Wilkerson
> KY Zone 6
> 
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