intro & Iris pallida 'Variegata'
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  • Subject: intro & Iris pallida 'Variegata'
  • From: &* G* C* <j*@cox.net>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:53:03 -0500
Wow!  What a mess.  Maybe because my reply to Janos was linked to some other
keyboard system, the email process changed all of the vowels having a
diacritical mark to some other letter  --  thus producing gibberish.
Hopefully, this message will go out as written.  --  Griff


Szervusz, Janos!  --  De jsl beszil angolzl!  Sajnos, nincs nekem magyar
billentyuzet, is azirt nem tudom tovabb magyarzl mrni.

Both i. pallida aureovariegata and i. pallida argenteovariegata have
variegated foliage.  Aureo, as the name suggests, has strong yellow and
green striped leaves, while argenteo has white and silver-green striped
leaves.  An excellent photo of aureo and argenteo growing side by side is
available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/74528046@N00/2105601634/.  I
should think that, since your plant starts off buttery yellow, it is
aureovariegata.  All the illustrations of these two irises that I have seen
have purple flowers, but I would think/hope that they set seed and that
there would be flower color variations by now.  Have you tried making
crosses yourself?

As to the wet soil, iris pallida, like most bearded irises, likes it dry.
Do you live in the Puszta?  If in a wet part, you may need to construct
raised beds, which isn't hard to do.  We can tell you how.

If you sow bearded iris seeds in the late autumn of, let us say, 2011, you
will get sprouts in the following spring (2012) and can expect some bloom in
the next year (2013).

You are very welcome to our list, and I hope that you will maintain contact
so that you can get a good start on hybridizing in the coming spring.

Ssk szerencsit kmvanok!  --  Griff

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