"ant" wrote in message
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The varieties you've listed are interesting, I have some of them.
I'm an
iris freak, and used to love those winter iris at home, always
associated
them with damp though.

The winter Iris seem to grow anywhere and I've seen them in moist
spots too. I have some that grow in path and some that grow beside
the drive and have not been watered in probalby the 3 years (or
more??) since I put them there.


I grow tall bearded up here (tempo two mainly), they
are wonderful.

Yes - always good doers. I still have some sitting a a styrofoam box
from where my daughter dug them up and dumped them here after she
moved out of a scumbag rental place - she wasn't going to leave
anything to the slum landlord that she'd planted - they must have been
there now for about 14 months and although they have no soil other
than what is cinging to the roots they still live - I must plant them
when I can find the time.

Must dig out a few winter iris from down in Canberra and try
them here, even without the flowers the plant clumps are lovely.
Mother
planted those japonica things (the red flowers), and they do their
thing.

I'm just reading all the rest of what you wrote... the wind is the
biggie.

I had to go to Cooma today and as I was driving along I noticed the
Verbasums along the side of the road. Ask your mother if she can get
you some. Tough as old boots and give good height and tough - Michael
McCoy the dry garden bloke uses them well. I love them. I should
also have mentioned Russian sage

Yes those sodding winds! I put my veggie garden facing westward on a
slope - those blasted winds!!!!!. Dumb but the only place for it to
go. I then had to put up a fence with shade cltoh and a whole lot of
wattles on the windward side - it's now a lovely place to work.

Farm1 wrote:

Name? Or is that asking too much given the lack of privacy involved.

It's on Radcliffe Circuit, in Carwoola. a macro garden, mainly trees and
lawn, with a few micro thingies. but it's impressive, especially when you
look at the surrounds. I look down onto it.

They had a bore from day one, and used it intensively, from what they said.
Magnificent result though.


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ant