Re: Iris suaveolens and reichenbachii
- Subject: Re: Iris suaveolens and reichenbachii
- From: T* &* M* R*
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:05:48 +1200
Vavourakis wrote:
>
> Thanks to all of you who have made suggestions as to the identity of my mystery
> iris... I really will have to wait until next spring to examine the flower more
> closely. It may be the lutescens, but I am not sure.
>
> Meanwhile, my little specimens are found in a prime building area (although at
> present zoned as forest land) which will possibly face the bulldozer sooner or
> later. Only last month the construction workers for the house across the road
> dumped a river of concrete there... I am tempted to rescue a sampling of these
> little fellows, although I know it is a "no-no."
>
Karen
It would pay to continue to watch over them I should think, as if the
bulldozses really do move in one would surely be entirely justified in
performing a rescue of these and any other choice wildflowers which
would otherwise be destroyed.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand, SW Pacific. 12 hours ahead of Greenwich Time
