[pbs] Iris cycloglossa
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Antennaria at aol.com
Mon Jun 14 23:00:00 EDT 2004
In a message dated 6/14/04 12:12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
pbs-request at lists.ibiblio.org writes:
>I saw an iris new to me in a catalog and
>wondered what kind of conditions it needs.
>It is Iris cycloglossa. It's listed with the
>Rockgarden iris. Does it have short flowers
>and tall leaves like the reticulatas? The
>catalog says it blooms in May/June, 4-5".
>That's too late to plant back in the bed to
>hide the foliage as everything is pretty
>well started by then. Any and all help
>is appreaciated. Thanks.
John,
Iris cyclogossa is a Juno Iris... perhaps one of the very latest flowering
species in the section, as most Junos flower much earlier. In my garden, I.
cycloglossa flowers in May-June, long after the rest of the junos have finished
in April-May. Foliage is unobtrusive, and the stems are rather tallish to 2'
(60 cm) or more, with large, sumptuous, lavender-blue flopping flowers. There
are 3 photos of this species that I posted to the PBS wiki last year and the
year before. See them at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/index.php/Iris
My plants grow at the edge of a slightly raised mound, growing in a 5-6"
sandy-loamy soil, over a base of clay... the type of bed I grow many bulbs such as
Triteliaeas, Brodiaeas, etc., although I think this species will grow in any
sunny raised sand-bed sort of situation, where Junos seem to flourish.
Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States
antennaria at aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5
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