Re: CULT: Arils
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Arils
- From: B* S*
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:05:16 -0500
>Dear Bill, I have recently joined this chat line and thought I might reply
>to your letter. As I live in South Australia and have been growing arils and
>aril hybrids from seed from Israel since 1989 in the open ground
>successfully your letter was of interest. I have not heard of van
>Bourgondiens but as I wouldn't even think of importing rhizomes into
>Australia due to the quarantine restrictions it doesn't surprise me. Where
>abouts do you live? We had rain for too long this last winter and spring so
>the leaves were disappearing fast, but the rhizomes and flowering didn't
>appear to be effected. I recently obtained some large terracotta drainage
>pipes through the local council which where somewhat damaged but I thought
>it might be fun to pot up some of the arils and compare results. Must go as
>I'm preparing for an open garden weekend this week and need all the time I
>can get, plus I'm off to New Zealand next week for an iris symposium so I
>won't be back til the 16th November. Kind regards, Pat
Hi Pat, Van Bourgondien's is a bulb broker based in New York. I suspect
they do not deal in Australia. They only offer aril iris from time to
time; mostly it's the usual tulips and daffodils. I live in Virginia, USDA
Zone 7a (if that means anything). Although some years we could probably do
arils in the ground, our summers are usually to warm and humid for their
survival. Thus I'm trying these in pots.
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<wshear@email.hsc.edu>
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