RE: intro & Iris pallida 'Variegata'
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: intro & Iris pallida 'Variegata'
  • From: &* S* <s*@familyszabo.com>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:00:14 -0500
Janos,

Unfortunately my father never bothered to teach us Hungarian, though he
spoke it with his mother and others of that generation until she died, and
very infrequently after that. What little I did learn from my grandmother
has now been mostly forgotten, no chance to practice or learn more in a
mostly Polish community.

\\Steve//


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of J.
Agoston
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 6:09 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] intro & Iris pallida 'Variegata'

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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