Re: making troughs, now irises

In a message dated 6/24/02 1:44:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
genebush@otherside.com writes:

<< www.munchkinnursery.com >>

First let me say I have not been looking lately at your website and it is 
charming with a virtual tour - real shade inspiration.

The question is the Iris pallida you picture growing with Nelly Moser.  I 
have what I think is Iris pallida and have had it for years.  Yours is 
carrying many flowers and the plants do not seem to be as large or as tall as 
our plants.

Ours are at least 2 inches wide, the leaves,  on the healthiest and produce, 
in full sun, many fewer flower stalks.  Did you grow these from seed?

I should say that most people grow them for the leaves as they remain a 
gorgeous bluish color all summer and are not attacked by any disease.  They 
are foliage plants of the best sort.  I had not thought of them as shade 
plants, maybe I should move a few to the shade.  They are the only tall 
bearded iris that I grow and I am very fond of this plant.  It might be 
chancy to say they escape the iris borer but they do seem to do OK year after 
year.  I have not seen any borers here for a few years now as I have banished 
all TB's some time ago.

Irisarians like to talk endlessly about iris borers.  I'll leave it that they 
do a lot damge east of the Mississippi.

Claire Peplowski
NYS zone 4

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