[pbs] Iris cycloglossa
Antennaria at aol.com
Antennaria at aol.com
Tue Jul 20 21:57:06 EDT 2004
Rodger Whitlock" totototo at pacificcoast.net wrote:
>Is anyone growing this successfully enough
>to reliably get flowers? If so, what kind of soil
>mix do you use and what is your watering
>regimen in summer? Do you dry it off completely
>and bake it in the sun, give it dry shade, keep
>it cool and damp, or what?
Hi Roger,
I grow this, and have several photos on the PBS wiki Iris page (per the url
listed below). I got mine from John Lonsdale, and I think I can speak for the
both of us... it's a wonderful Iris, and unique among the Juno section to be
the very last to flower in June. I grow mine at the edge of a slightly raised
bed 8" deep, in clay soil amended with lots of sand, where the roots can reach
a subbase of much heavier rocky clay soil... all in full sun. Seems to like
the conditions I've given it. In the same bed, I grow Brodiaeas and Trits,
which get ample moisture in spring, but I allow to dry out in summer... although
there is no protection so rain and thunderstorms certainly saturate the beds
at times. Just tonight, I cut off the dry stems.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/index.php/Iris
Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States
antennaria at aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5
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