Re: Re:Growing Iris South Florida
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  • Subject: Re: Re:Growing Iris South Florida
  • From: P* <4*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:21:03 -0500
Robert, interesting note on /Iris x germanica/ specimens in every FL 
county. But if failure to bloom and chance of collected specimens being 
waifs aren't deal breakers I could see it happening easy enough.

Texas seems to teem with TBs. Dallas has hosted the AIS convention, 
albeit it not a humidity/ precipitation match to FL. But if there are 
iris making it in more coastal TX then SE FL is only a couple of shades 
deeper in TB Hades, no? Is the step to hot/humid Z10 the one over the 
brink for blooming TBs?

Only because I know of nothing like it more recent (blame my lack of 
reading) I offer this. A link to a fascinating downloadable paper done 
back in 1942 where over 200 TBs were tested at TX A&M and quite a few 
grew and bloomed with only basic care. Climate in College Station, TX 
might have changed a bit since then but it certainly hot enough. But 
still not Z10 and less steam bath than FL I expect. (?) Unfortunately 
the paper seems to be only downloadable as single pages in large TIFF 
format. Maybe someone can find otherwise. Being a data nut I derived a 
summary Excel spreadsheet of the results list. If someone can tell me 
how to make this available w/o security risks I'd be happy to do so. (I 
am still trying to shake the last spam list I got on.) But *no promises* 
I have made a perfect derivation. If you are going to cite the data you 
need to go the original source.

http://repository.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/86202?show=full

BTW - if anybody has ANY leads on the presumed lost cultivars Athene and 
Azure Glow I would give my eye teeth to get divisions. Why those two? 
Read the paper. (Cruel huh?) Monsignor abounds these days.

Shaub Dunkley

On 11/5/2014 4:00 PM, Robert Pries wrote:
> While it is probably true that most bearded irises have trouble in zone 9, I can assure you they can grow in zone 8. But there are possibilities that to my knowledge have never been explored.
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