It depends if you are reading it on an a mobile device or a desktop. Most likely, Karl's post was written from a desktop/ or cut and pasted from notepad or some program. The format does. It transfer. On Sunday, September 17, 2017, Elaine Jek <elainej@gmail.com> wrote: > It's ok Karl, I read it fine. > > Thank you for sharing! Happy Iris growing. Beautiful work. > > -Elaine. > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Jan Jeddeloh <janjeddeloh@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > Karl, if you actually want anyone to read what you have to say you need > to use paragraphs! You may have something to say but nobody is going to > wade through your post as written. I tried and found it impenetrable. So > divide up your post, edit it and maybe you’ll get some replies. > > > > Jan Jeddeloh > >> On Sep 15, 2017, at 4:17 PM, Karl Dan <59eriver@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > >> > >> Iris 2017 > >> For Iris fans, read on, others may delete. In my coastal zone 8 swamp > >> the Louisianas NEVER go dormant. The best you can do is “clean up” the > >> clump in fall. I had a gallon pot of “Jack Attack” cover a 6 by 6 foot > >> area in a year. One rhizome having 36-40 fans. I hacked away this fall > >> and left a small blooming sized clump. The rest planted a 30 foot > >> section of one of the many lakes around here. I made special pure blue > >> and dark purple crosses, look for them at the seed exchange. I just > >> finished reading a gardener’s book (as you do) and ask that you don’t > >> do what he did. He moved into a new neighborhood and was welcomed by > >> an elderly gardener bearing a shoebox full of Viola tricolor. Oh no! > >> he told her, we throw those away by the shovel full, instantly > >> realizing what he had done. My point: A member of one of my garden > >> clubs admired one of my JIs, Royal Robes. She had a Louisiana I > >> wanted, Clyde Redmond. We arranged the trade for our next meeting. I > >> hacked out a rhizome from the JI and potted it up in a one gallon. > >> Right away it sent up a new fan, by the time of the meeting it was > >> full grown. I like to give fair value, plants and seed exchange, so I > >> was happy. She gave me a piece of blooming stalk, about 18”, with an > >> inch and a half piece of rhizome. Thank you. I planted it, and > >> immediately a full size fan grows. By fall, 6 huge fans, growing all > >> winter. By spring this was a thing of beauty, covered in huge flat sky > >> blue saucers, all from that tiny bit of protoplasm. I had 2 rhizomes > >> of a 60 year old virginica clone I planted last fall. It had a very > >> long blooming period, about a month. I said I didn’t need 2 plants of > >> it, but noooo…..It was 2 giant clumps facing me this fall. One was > >> crowding out other iris so I put the shovel under it and it didn’t > >> budge. Eventually it split into 3 huge clumps which I planted at a > >> little cove by a lake. All that from one piece of rhizome a year ago. > >> I have a virginica that routinely reaches 6 to 7 feet tall, with > >> gravity the only thing stopping its growth, with the leaves so long > >> that they start to snap in half. This one is another evergreen, with > >> huge pearlescent lavender blooms. I had some mature pods so look for > >> these seeds here, also if those sell out I have a couple of more > >> maturing pods. This is however, definitely a southern iris. I > >> hybridized this plant with everything that was blooming, a siberica, a > >> versicolor, a Louisiana and also pseudacorus. Only one pod matured on > >> that scape, and when mature, the seeds were the same shape and > >> plumpness of the bee crosses, but only only half the size. Not > >> knowing if these seeds are viable, I didn’t want to send them in. I am > >> hoping I get a crazy interspecies cross. The boggy acidic seed bed has > >> exceeded all expectations. I planted species and crosses of laevagita, > >> ensata, virginica, versicolor and some “white” pseudacorus. After a > >> season’s growth some have 6 – 8 full sized fans and are 24 + inches > >> tall. These healthy vigorous beauties will bloom next spring. Our > >> Region 4 Iris meeting is in October in Raleigh/Durham N.C. I potted up > >> divisions of all my species Iris as I divided them, and will take > >> these with me to benefit the plant sales/auctions. We hosted the > >> Nationals last year for the American Hemerocallis society, and that > >> took up all my time and a week’s vacation. I missed several important > >> Iris gatherings, and now that I did my duty to my Hemerocallis club I > >> plan to devote next year to the iris societies. In closing, I am > >> always looking for blue Native American Iris, missouriensis, cristata, > >> versicolors and virginicas, Louisianas…Please send your extra seeds > >> in, I for one will buy them. I sent some bulbils for a future > >> exchange, 60 year old Lilium lancifolium, 8 feet tall, remember that > >> species is immune to some virus that are devastating to other Lily > >> species. Also an "Orientpet" Lily, green bulbils, it reached 7 feet > >> this year. 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