Re: intro & Iris pallida 'Variegata'
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: intro & Iris pallida 'Variegata'
  • From: &* A* <a*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:08:46 +0100
Griff, it is so nice of you trying to use hungarian diacritical marks.
Well the case is  this year my city was flooded with rain, it was a marsh
formerly, so soil is saturated in late autumn till end february, and of
course when it is flooded. XD
Actually I try to sow seeds next week, I managed to get a few from granny,
she has some iris in her garden, I bought them for her, but now i'd like to
grow some varieties by myself too. I was in the luck of moving them to a
sandy-kind-of-soil. Unexpectedly the wet weather was so good for my Iris
ochroleuca gigantea, the rhizomes have like 6-10 new shoots formed this
year. I've bought some 50/+ spuria varieties and around 10 Louisiana-s, they
are planted in the clay. I hope they'll survive in Z5a.

I would like to collect I. W flavescens seeds to next year. I hope something
unexpected will come out! Ohh, and I have to plant the Sky Hooks seeds too.
Tomorrow I try to send a link with some pictures, if I'll have some time.

And I also would like to know why it is advised to plant bearded iris after
flowering during summer? I learned that perennials should be transplanted in
dormancy as bulbs.

Thank you for the warm welcome! I'll be here, read & write if I'll have
time. Thank you Steve too!

Bye,
Janos

2010/11/20 Steve Szabo <steve@familyszabo.com>

> Griff,
>
> If your messages are originally done in HTML, it is the translation to
> plain
> text that is screwing you up. You need to write them in plain text and when
> you need a diacritical, use the <ALT>ASCII combination to create that
> character or use the character map to pick and choose the correct
> character.
> Do note, however, this only works if the character set you are using
> supports those characters.
>
> \\Steve//
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of J.
> Griffin Crump
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 5:09 PM
> To: iris@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [iris] intro & Iris pallida 'Variegata'
>
> Rats!  It did it again.  I'll spare everyone another try.  I'm sure Janos
> can figure out what I tried to stick together but Yahoo has put asunder.
>  At
>
> least, I think it must be Yahoo, since messages in Irish sent to and fro on
> my server (not Yahoo) go through without a hitch.  --  Griff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Griffin Crump
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 4:53 PM
> To: iris@hort.net
> Subject: [iris] intro & Iris pallida 'Variegata'
>
> 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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