CULT: "Red Lion"
- Subject: CULT: "Red Lion"
- From: I* E* E*
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:20:10 -0700
Rosalie, I live a couple of blocks from Sandy Ives and Maureen Mark. We
are said to be in Zone 4B but we are on the border. In the last 25
years, we have definitely had one or two winters which were 3 and for
the last two or three years, I would guess that we are getting close to
5, especially in protected areas. Snow cover is more important than
temperature as we found last year. No snow, very cold snap, and most
people lost a lot of plants - for example every chrysanthemum in my
garden except one. Some of these plants had been around in Ottawa for
50 years!
Irises do not seem to mind the cold at all, especially with the snow
cover. My collection of species is expanding each year and most survive
except really warm weather ones. I.tridentata and verna have not made
it yet, despite nice plants from Linda of the verna. I understand that
Fred Case has tridentata in northern Michigan so it might be that I need
to try harder. I should note that I do not mulch or protect the plants
at all.
Red Lion is a problem. Firstly, I really only keep cultivars for the
visitors and am not up on the names. Sandy and Maureen are the experts
on that subject. Secondly, my Red Lion originally came from McMillen's
but it turned out to be two plants with identical flowers but of quite
different size. One clearly a TB and one an MB. They are strong
growers and are all over the garden now but what is their correct name,
I have no idea. The MB remains in flower.
Ian, in Ottawa - a city which will integrate 12 governments into one on
the 1st January and is going through some administrative
re-organization!
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