Re: Sea Power

My experience here with Willamette Valley, OR irises is quite different from
Linda Mann's, but even though we are just over the mountains from each other
our soils are radically different.  I have clay and clay loam, Linda in her
downstairs garden has gravel with amendments, and soils similar to mine, I
suspect, in her new, government-inspected upstairs garden.

Bill Burleson and I probably have similar soils, but he is in a zone one value
warmer than my area and hotter, more humid.

My SEA POWER bloomed almost normally on a new set rhizome of good size that
came from OR last year.  Now it has three large increases with a fourth, a
sprig from the spent rhizome, showing as well.  That is entirely satisfactory
performance here.  The plant is in a location that gets about 3/4 day of full
sun.

EPICENTER, however, has two fans, one medium sized, one small after two years
growth.  It has produced one blooming stalk which was spindly and weak, then
fell over the first year, and then this year it produced a blind bloomstalk
due to frost damage.  It is growing in a protected location near the house but
does have competition from a more vigorous grower ( RARE TREAT ) and perhaps
some tree roots.  To give it a fair chance I need to move it out near where
Sea Power is growing.

On the post about speculating on future awards, my text as developed here had
nice, neat columns that were far more easily read than what I see on screen
accessing the post from Iris-talk.  I apologize for the disrupted pattern of
columns.  It is difficult to read as it stands.  I tried.....

Neil Mogensen   z 7  western NC

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