Re: Pacific Coast Natives
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Pacific Coast Natives
- From: L* P* <p*@peak.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 09:29:48 -0700
At 09:57 AM 9/4/96 -0600, William A. Shear wrote:
>Only if you've lived in both places can you have a feeling for the real
>climatic differences between the habitat of the californicae and the humid
>mid-Atlantic states. The problem is definitely a two-season one. Most of
>
Having grown up in Pennsylvania and lived in Oregon for the past twenty-plus
years, I will only add a bit to the above posting.
Soil temperature may also be a factor in addition to the differences in
summer rainfall. In much of the area where pacificas grow,, the soil stays
relatively cool even in the summer. Many of them grow in foothill areas and
for physical reasons that I have detailed in another article and will spare
you all here, soil temperatures are dramatically lower here than they are in
other areas during the summer.
Perhaps the only hope to grow these captivating iris is by generations of
devoted seedstarting, as has been suggested by many and I hope that some of
you east-coasters will take up the challenge. It means a long-range and
devoted commitment, possibly several decades, but decidedly worth it!
Louise
Louise H. Parsons <parsont@peak.org>
listowner, Alpine-L,the Electronic Rock Garden Society
Corvallis, OR USA USDA zone 7 , Emerald NARGS, AIS, SIGNA, SPCNI,
"A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew." Shelley
http://www.peak.org/~parsont/rockgard/
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