Re: FLUXLIST: irises

2001-04-08 Thread { brad brace }
Hi Carol, I no longer have a garden :((( I have to get-out of this city somehow... I had some nice black irises in Portland. I'm still saving/collecting small metal boxes for the project; many still have to be 'rusted' and lacquered. Perhaps there'll be a bigger response the second time around.

Re: FLUXLIST: irises

2001-04-08 Thread { brad brace }
Thanks David; but I think I'll soon have enough boxes, and I wanted them all to be the same size anyway. Perhaps the seed project should consist of random mixes of everyone's contribution(s), in a planting medium (dirt) in each box: just add water... Huge crows used to perch in the tall pine

FLUXLIST: irises

2001-04-07 Thread { brad brace }
I am going to dig up and divide my irises. If I dig them up now will they have flowers this year?

Re: FLUXLIST: irises

2001-04-07 Thread Carol Starr
hi brad, according to my garden book the time to divide iris is autumn when the plants are dormant. my chionodoxa sardensis and the scilla siberica are blooming, their beautiful gentian-blue flowers are quite special in the snow. how big is your garden? do you still have all those little boxes