Re: Mysteries

Tim wrote:

>I didn't have time, when Dave Poole wrote his splendid account of his
>garden a few weeks ago, to comment but I'll just put in a quick
>belated PS now to say that I'm delighted he's seen the light re Iris
>confusa and (particularly) I. wattii!  I. wattii really is a
>magnificent plant - foliage luxuriantly exotic and flowers delicately
>refined. I grew from SIGNA seed what was supposed to be a pure white
>form but it turned out to be the usual (delightful!) palest mauve.
>Anyone know if there really IS a pure white? And, if so, does it come
>true from seed? 

I have a pure white confusa and what a stunner it is too.  The flowers
are reasonably sized to about 2.5 inches across, prettily crimped and
absolutely snow white with canary yellow keels.  My plant remained in
flower for just over 6 weeks with some of the racemes producing up to
40 flowers each.  Initially a small plant with about 6 'fans' - most
with only very short stems, it is already rocketing skyward with about
15 strong stems.  I look forward to when the fans are formed later in
the summer, on such a clump, the plant will provide extra
architectural interest.

I've put some of the old stems in to root tim - they should provide
reasonable plants from adventitious growths.  If you want one, let me
know and I'll pop it in the post.

Dave Poole
TORQUAY  UK
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