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Is Stinking Iris sold in most nurseries?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    My feverfew disappeared a while back. I had to buy a plant . It wasn't particularly cheap but it was worth it. There's single, doubles, light and dark foliage popping up all over the place again
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Is this the Iris?   It just popped up,  I’ve never bought or sown the seeds.  I will now though.  Looks like there’s another next to it. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That doesn’t look like my Iris foet. @Lyn

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Ah right,  it’s near the bird feeders so maybe a bird picked up the seed from somewhere else and dropped it there,  definitely a keeper for me,  I love anything that grows for me and will save the seeds.  Wonder how long they take to flower from seed? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’s very pretty … but my I. foet. is more of a yellow my-brown-mauve with ‘chunkier’ petals. I can’t find a photo. 

    I think mine were a gift from @nutcutlet 🙏 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    There are both a yellow and a purple variety. I think @Lyn is a purple I.foetidissima.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Thanks Punkdoc.
    Yikes!

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • This is such a weed in my garden, the flowers are to brief and pale for me. Funny to think you can actually buy them in a garden centre...like buying a dandelion😅

    but having said that I bought Herb Robert a few years ago, and suffice to say it has many offspring!
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    There are slightly cheaper sellers..
    Native plants should be encouraged I think - by price too!
    Thanks all.. I have a little patch under the fatsia where nothing seems to grow, it needs something! 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Herb Robert is one I have to get rid of, I think it stinks. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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