Re: Mesa Pearl & Sprinkles was SR - Informal survey
I guess it was the hot and dry summers that killed Mesa Pearl and Sprinkles. I
am miserly in the summer with the water -- generally only the tomatoes and
occasionally the planters and baskets get watered. It will be interesting to
see how all the sibs do next year. With this surfeit of rain this spring,
everything is very green. Bloom season is just about over with just a few last
buds on Over In Gloryland, Trim the Velvet, Kito No Seiza, Summer Revels, Off
She Goes, Leonora's Choice and Fourfold White.
Maureen
Ottawa
Leroy Kriese wrote:
> We grow only Mesa Pearl and Sprinkles. Both are fine iris - beautiful color.
> Siberian iris bloom has been tremendous this year, we are just coming down
> from peak. Only a few "blind" varities.
>
> I took a slide of a tremendous clump of Mesa Pearl in John Montgomery's
> garden the other day. Hope it turns out! JM is a real water miser, but he
> has the Siberians well mulched and they love it.
>
> Have found that both Mesa Pearl and Sprinkles are a bit finicky. They don't
> do well in our hottest, driest summers. The one year they were doing so
> poorly I rescued them and potted them up into pots so I could give them more
> H2O. They have come along fine since and now that they are well established
> clumps back in the ground again and they seen to weather the adverse
> conditions better now.
>
> Definitely want big divisions to start with, if you divide these babies too
> small you probably won't be too successful in getting them established. No
> problems with winter hardiness here in zone 5, we have dependable snow cover
> at the nursery, but a few miles south down the valley the the snow cover is
> definitely not reliable.
>
> I don't understand the way plants are chosen for AMs. Or maybe I do, but
> there is not enough judges out here, too many back east and not enough out
> west? West of the Rockies things are a lot different.
>
> Other top picks for this year: Coronation Anthem (again), Creme Chantilly
> (tremendous branching and bud count, simply the best). Windwood Spring.
> Fisherman's Morning, Percheron. Too many great blossom displays to really
> choose from.
>
> Leroy Kriese, Ambrosia Gardens
> Vernon, BC Canada Zone 5
> http://ambrosiagardens.netfirms.com/index.htm
>
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