RE: species iris
- Subject: RE: species iris
- From: "Marilyn Dube" m*@easystreet.com
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 09:52:39 -0700
Vivien, thanks for your recommendations. See at good picture at
http://www.alpine-plants-jp.com/art/index_photo2c23.htm The Oregon Iris
Society Show and Sale is this coming weekend and I am going to go in hopes
of finding something else that is as choice as what you describe! They are
all so lovely.
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon
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Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 3:09 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: species iris
Marilyn, I grow few irises because of my shade, but one that I like very
much is Iris gracillipes, which doesn't mind some shade. It's small and
graceful and has foliage like wide blades of grass which persists and looks
good all season. At the last chapter meeting of NARGS, we had our "rare
plant auction" and our speaker, Mike Slater, from PA brought some donations
including I. gracillipes alba, which I've been anxious to acquire. The
plants he brought had bloomed already, having been forced for the
Philadelphia Flower Show, so I have to wait till next year to see it bloom.
But at least I have it! I also got Narcissus rupicola, a truly teeny
daffodil with an absolutely heavenly fragrance. Not rose-like, not at all
like paperwhites; it reminds me rather of the soft, powdery fragrance some
primroses have.
Vivien
Zone 6, MA
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