On 21/3/08 16:14, in article , "Bob
Hobden" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote
after "Bob Hobden" wrote:
"Sacha" wrote

I think it would help him to look at some Google Images of different
Iris.
There are, after all, some that grow in water! Iris sibirica like dry
conditions.

I had better not tell that to those I've had in my pond for 25 years.
:-)

Have I muddled them up? I thought they liked dry but now I'm going to
have
to check. We have some on the corner of a well-drained wall!

I asked Ray who sat firmly on the fence and said "Moist". ;-)

Iris confusa likes to be fairly moist. I suppose it could be
that in which case, lucky him!

Or the beautiful Iris laevigata which can also be a bog plant.

snip

I think that might be the one we have in the pond. It's in a pot on a
ledge
and is a fabulous purple. Does that sound familiar, Bob?

Very much so, we have one that has variegated leaves and is a deep purple in
flower, there are lots of varieties with different flower colours though.
They make superb, classy, bog plants and I would always have them over the
normal yellow flags which can be large and rather invasive in a garden pond.
The pond plant place I mentioned before has numerous bog iris.

Yes, thank you. I've bookmarked that one and I'm going to get some for our
ponds here.

One nursery I forgot to put on my last reply was THE famous Bearded Iris
nursery...

http://www.iris-cayeux.com/index.php?langue=EN

Oh their selection is *gorgeous*. I hardly dare look at it!

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'