Re: CULT: survival & list

In a message dated 9/11/05 5:22:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

<< Add to that high disease burden here because my goal is to grow only 
cultivars that can tolerate such conditions - no spray, no grooming, no clean 
cultivation. >>

After several years of this, have you ever considered lowering your 
standards, as it were?  

As I have understood you, your interest has been to test, at an extreme, for 
your own pleasure and information, and also to select stock for a personal 
breeding program, the goal of which is to develop irises with modern form and 
color which can survive the conditions in your locality, and your own 
horticultural style. 

It seems to me that very few highly developed garden plants are likely to 
persist with no care, and fewer still thrive, nor is it clear to me they should 
be expected to do so. 

I am curious; how many bearded Iris cultivars of the half that survived the 
first year are still with you, and doing well, at the five year point? Have you 
a list of those names handy?

Cordially,

Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA

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