{"id":1032,"date":"2008-06-08T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2008-06-08T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T01:57:00","slug":"feral-iris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Feral Iris"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love wild iris<\/a>, but it’s too dry here in the foothills for them to grow on their own. They do better in the higher, wetter mountains.<\/p>\n

But some years ago a colleague gave me a gunny sack full of domestic iris rhizomes she had left over after re-digging her flower beds. <\/p>\n

Our “landscaping” here consists mostly of holding the trees at bay (“defensible space<\/a>“) plus a vegetable garden, so I turned the iris loose in the woods. I planted them here and there in little gullies and other low spots that I thought might stay damp in a dry year. <\/p>\n

And they have held on. In some bad years, they do not bloom at all. This year we are getting a moderate bloom. It’s enough. And while sometimes I am a native-plants purist, I don’t think these iris are going to colonize Colorado very fast. <\/p>\n

And we all know that there are noxious weeds<\/a> and “noxious weeds.” Take bindweed<\/a>, for instance. As a gardener, I hate it. But my rancher friend says that cattle will eat it in a dry year, so it gets a tacit exemption from all the weed-control programs–around here, at least.<\/p>\n

(Cross-posted to my other blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love wild iris, but it’s too dry here in the foothills for them to grow on their own. They do better in the higher, wetter mountains. But some years ago a colleague gave me a gunny sack full of domestic iris rhizomes she had left over after re-digging her flower beds. Our “landscaping” here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-gE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}