Re: CULT: BEGINNER STILL - DWARF/DUTCH IRIS HELP NEEDED
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: BEGINNER STILL - DWARF/DUTCH IRIS HELP NEEDED
- From: J* G*
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 20:06:09 -0400
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Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 9:55 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] CULT: BEGINNER STILL - DWARF/DUTCH IRIS HELP NEEDED
Susan said:
> Here is today's problem. But, more to the point, I bought
> some packages of bulbs as follows:
> Dwarf Iris - Danfordiae - they are yellow and only grow to 5" -
> spring flowering
> Dutch Iris - Purple Sensation - purple with yellow centres - 8" -
> spring flowering
> Dutch Iris - Silvery Beauty - a pale mauve shading to white to
> yellow centre = 8" spring flowering.
>
> Now, the "bulbs" don't look like normal iris rhizomes, more like
> crocus bulbs. Are these really iris?
Oh yes, they are...and lovely, too....but bulbous, not rhizomatous(?)...but
I wonder about 8" on the Dutch. They are always ~24" here.
>
> The package says plant September to December for spring flowering.
> But I am hearing so much about iris being killed due to late planting
> or not an opportunity to put down roots before frost comes, that I
> wonder if I should plant at all,
I would get them in, tomorrow...you own them now. Earlier would have been
better, but potted, they are likely to only bloom once, and then grudgingly.
I would take my chances with Mother Earth. Think of them as tulips. I am ex
of NH, but currently of the more benign NC.
Jim Gibbons
NC Coast, Zone 8a and sandy
gibbman6@home.com
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