Re: OT-My apologies

From: Pat Bass <bpbass@gj.net>



william b. cook wrote:

> From: "william b. cook" <billc@atlantic.net>
>
> > Robert Turley and I have talked a bit about irises for Houston.  The
> > subject of I. pseudacorus has come up before on this list.  Without
> > really getting into whether one likes its looks or not, is there any
> > danger of it escaping domestication and becoming a runaway beast
> > like the kudzu vine has in the south?
>
> Donald,
>      There is some chance this could happen, but it would be easy to avoid.
>  If one goes through the garden, and removes the seed pods before they can
> mature, it will not escape cultivation.  A few people raise Iris
> pseudacorus here, and so far, I have not heard of it even existing outside
> of gardens.

Mark and Donald,

I just want to comment on i.pseudocorus.  In central Kansas where I used to
live many private ponds were beginning to be overrun with this beautiful pest.
The people who pulled some out to take home and plant in their gardens had no
problem with it taking over.  However, one of my friends planted some in a
drainage ditch and it was becoming a pest there.  We had both the light yellow
and the dark yellow, but no variegated ones.  Removing the seed pods would be a
good way to control it, although it does multiply quickly by rhizome.

Pat in CO.  A beautiful day, no wind (different from KS!).

> Mark and Donald,
> Mark A. Cook
> billc@atlantic.net
> Dunnellon, Florida.
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