Re: Cult-removing stalks

I have never cut the seed pods off my siberian iris and yes, they 
have self seeded everywhere. :)   I was always told to leave them on 
for "winter interest."  I have little Ceasar's Brother seedlings all 
over the bed where the parent is.  Actually, they all look like the 
parent.  I will, in the future, remember to cut off the seed pods of 
my newer siberians.  

I just purchased (for fall delivery) Careless Sally, Very Victorian 
and Senica Blue Rose.  I currently have Ceasar's brother, Butter and 
Sugar, Dreaming Spires...    No seedlings from Butter and Sugar or 
Dreaming Spires....

I find I'm slowly replacing my bearded iris with siberians.  Now, if 
I could just grow Japanese iris....  *sigh*

Diann



--- In sibrob@yahoogroups.com, "Karl Miller" <larklabel@k...> wrote:
> Amazingly enough a few people mentioned this thread at the National 
Spuria Convention last weekend. The only time you want to leave seed 
pods on your iris is if you are hybridizing new plants. If you did 
not make the cross yourself, it is nature doing what normal, trying 
to make a lot more plants. However nature rarely will make as good of 
a plant as your highly developed hybrid.
> Most people do not like the look of the seed pods and stalks and 
cut them out to leave just the foliage as it distracts from the 
landscape value of the iris. But the most important reason is to keep 
the seeds out of the flower bed. They will germinate in your existing 
plant and when you divide the plants you will have a mix of the named 
iris and the natural cross which will look nothing like its parent.
> This is just good garden culture and should be practiced just like 
weeding, insect and disease control. The only way to find these 
things out is to keep asking questions and observing good gardeners. 
Hopefully you have an iris club nearby and that way you will pick up 
these things fast and lose that new comer tag. 
> Karl Miller
> Lark Label
> Custom Imaged, Solid metal, Plant Labels
> larklabel@k...
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: TGardner 
>   To: sibrob@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 8:28 AM
>   Subject: RE: [sibrob] Re: Cult-removing stalks
> 
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