Sometimes catalogues show pictures and you say
“yeah, right”: which is how I reacted when I first saw
pictures of this strange and alluring plant. For once the
hype was exceeded by the wonderful performance-
-this went through minus 7 Farenheit, snow and has
bloomed for weeks. I do love brass and bronze, and
this seems almost as tough! Bravo Alan McMurtrie—
and keep ’em coming!
‘Mars Landing’ (Alan McMurtrie 2003, SPEC-X)
That’s Oxalis ‘Ken Aslet’ (pick any one of a half
dozen scientific names) which blooms yellow in the fall
under the iris.
Iris x 'Finola'
Perhaps you can tell I’m tickled?
Bulletin Board
—Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator and
Director of Outreach, Denver Botanic Gardens
Reprinted with permission from: https://prairiebreak.blogspot.
com/2018/03/winter-waifs-and-springtime-spirits.html
WEST POINT, NEW YORK, MAY 2018
I. pallida in full bloom at the base Superintendent's
residence during cadet graduation ceremonies.
, jim morris
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Iris histrioides 'Sophenensis'
Summer 2018 AIS Bulletin 11