Mid-Atlantic Gardening: VA Eastern Shore Get Together/Plant Swap, 1 by bonjon

bonjon wrote:
bellie- they are so tight in here, one bed of really expensive ones is developing crown rot - irises don't much like pots, but they prefer pots, where they are up high and get some air, to crowded in the ground and choked with weeds. That's where Decadence was. This isn't my photo of Decadence - I can't find mine - but even this photo doesn't show the colors well. I can't find the info on where this came from, but I'm willing to bet it was from Paul Black or Tom Johnson of Mid-America, or someone they hired to take it. That's where I'm going to buy it again if this one doesn't survive.Or this may be schreiners photo - who knows?

But they did put on a big show this year before too much rain did them in. Even with the freakish swirling storm we had that downed over 50% of my bloomstalks, they loved the spring rain and bloomed and bloomed.

This message was edited Jun 8, 2008 5:37 PM