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Seedy Subjects! => Seed Exchange => Topic started by: mark smyth on August 25, 2007, 01:19:00 PM

Title: Iris clarkei seeds - open pollinated
Post by: mark smyth on August 25, 2007, 01:19:00 PM

Today I collected seeds from my Iris clarkei. Are you interested?

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds
Post by: Carlo on August 25, 2007, 01:20:43 PM

It is a beauty!

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds
Post by: Maggi Young on August 25, 2007, 01:29:09 PM

Yes, please, Mark : terrible shortage of white Iris in these parts!!

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds
Post by: mark smyth on August 25, 2007, 01:32:26 PM

remember it's open pollinated so I cant guarantee a wee bee didnt poke its nose in at the wrong time

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds
Post by: Maggi Young on August 25, 2007, 01:36:06 PM

Natural selection... it's a wonderful thing!

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds
Post by: Carlo on August 25, 2007, 01:39:36 PM

It's the ONLY thing...

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds - open pollinated
Post by: David Nicholson on August 25, 2007, 06:11:58 PM

Me too please Mark, if you have any left.

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds - open pollinated
Post by: mark smyth on August 25, 2007, 06:16:49 PM

OK Maggi and Addresses please and I'll write envelopes and get them ready.

on-velope or n-volope?

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds - open pollinated
Post by: jomowi on August 25, 2007, 09:12:38 PM

Me too please, if there are any left.  Looks super

Brian Wilson (Aberdeen)

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds - open pollinated
Post by: mark smyth on August 25, 2007, 09:45:17 PM

oh go on then. Just send your address please Brian

Shop is now closed as I dont have very many seeds

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds - open pollinated
Post by: David Nicholson on August 26, 2007, 10:11:08 AM

en-velope!

By the way, saw your countryman Van Morrison last night. He played an excellent set with a nine piece band but apart from singing he never spoke to the audience all evening.

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds - open pollinated
Post by: Lesley Cox on August 27, 2007, 01:56:49 AM

Do spread it around Mark, but PLEASE!!! Don't call it Iris clarkei. It isn't. I'd suggest a hybrid of
Iris sibirica. Same group as clarkei but this one's nothing like.

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds - open pollinated
Post by: mark smyth on August 27, 2007, 08:32:11 PM

OK Lesley and take note receivers. Packages ready to go tomorrow

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds - open pollinated
Post by: mark smyth on August 27, 2007, 08:35:16 PM

the parent plant flowering stems are 19 inches 48cm

Title: Re: Iris clarkei seeds - open pollinated
Post by: Maggi Young on August 27, 2007, 08:40:35 PM

Thanks, Mark... I'm hoping for a goodly percentage of white seedlings!