RE: picture website
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  • Subject: RE: picture website
  • From: P* A* <p*@mindspring.com>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:37:43 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
I'd mulch just to be sure.  Just be sure to remove the mulch in Spring as growth starts.

Glad to help an hope you found it.  Picador isn't on their list, but it still might be over there somewhere or here.


-----Original Message-----
>From: lee hill <leehillmm@hotmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 1, 2010 11:25 AM
>To: Iris Group <iris@hort.net>
>Subject: RE: [iris] picture website
>
>Thank you, Paul! I've been following this iris chat group for more than ten
>years in hopes of finding the elusive root beer iris. Picador is its name, I
>think. My daughter is in Germany now, and she will be able to look in these
>historic iris gardens for it next spring. She and I have searched all over the
>US. She brought me three different slips this summer from old neighborhoods in
>Connecticut that met my description of appearance and fragrance. She thinks at
>least one or all of them may be the root beer iris that grew in my
>grandmother's and my mother's gardens in the 1950's and 60's here in
>Minnesota. They are all growing well, so far, and I am hoping for blossoms
>next spring. Should I provide any kind of mulch to help them overwinter?~Lee
>> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:59:25 -0400
>> From: pharcher@mindspring.com
>> To: iris@hort.net
>> Subject: [iris] picture website
>>
>> I have done many many searches for picutres of Historic Iris and had never
>come across this site until just today.  Yes, it's in German, but the names
>aren't of course.  It's even has them grouped by time period.  I had
>originally done a google search using "Red Flurry" iris and got an Excel list
>of Europe grown plants.  Editing/reducing the link took me to the site. HIPS
>members I'm sure are aware of it, many of us may not be.
>>
>> http://www.irisparadise.com/Iris/index.htm
>>
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