RE: intro & Iris pallida 'Variegata'
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: intro & Iris pallida 'Variegata'
  • From: E* H* <e*@mymts.net>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:27:56 -0600
Welcome to you, Janos.  You'll find lots of great information here.

Griff, I must have I. pallida argenteovariegata this time around.  It hasn't
bloomed as yet.  My former I pallida died when I moved it from a raised
nursery bed out into the landscape, alas.  It had bloomed and done well for
several years before that, but I don't recall seeing any seed pods.

El, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Z3

> From: jgcrump@cox.net
> To: iris@hort.net
> Subject: [iris] intro & Iris pallida 'Variegata'
> 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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