RE:SPEC: help - info on I. kashmiriana?

From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>

Jan Jacobsen - Denmark wrote:
> This iris was offered for sale this year from a nursery in Kashmir, but due to the war going on ,the owner of the nursery was killed and no one to take over, but it would probably have been without any sense doing so.
> As the name suggest this iris come from Kashmir, Afghanistan and other closeby areas.
> The plant is aprx 60 -100cm tall, 2-5 flowers white tinged blue/purple flowers 10-12 cm in diameter.
> The iris is also known as I.bartonii.Natural habitat is 2500-3500meters abve sea.

Thanks Jan.  Very sad.

Sounds like this iris might not enjoy our hot summers.  Does anyone know
the temperature and rainfall regime for those elevations of Kashmir &
Pakistan?  Television newscasts suggest arid and cold.

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA 
elevation <300 meters, rainfall >1200 cm & not quite up to doing
temperature conversion approximations in my head at 6 AM (~0 to 100 F,
occasionally worse)

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