Iris cycloglossa
Antennaria@aol.com (Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:57:06 PDT)

Rodger Whitlock" totototo@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://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States
antennaria@aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5
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