Pacific Coast Irises

Terri Bates terri.bates@gmail.com
Tue, 31 May 2016 10:21:55 PDT
There is of course the Society for Pacific Coast Native Iris seed exchange
http://pacificcoastiris.org/spcni_seedexchange.htm…

In Western WA (Seattle-Renton area) we also have the wonderful resource of PCI specialty nursery LeonineIris.com. I think this weekend was his last open garden what with the weather pushing everything early. He sells mail order through fall. 

Also, Iris Society beardless sales tend to include PCI hybrids. My chapter's 9/17 sale in Bellevue area will have some (KCIS.org).

Other local Iris society members with nurseries grow PCIs and might sell them. Mt Pleasant Iris in Washougal and Aitkens  Salmon Creek in Vancouver for example, but I know Cascadia Iris Gardens in Lake Stevens is out of stock for this year. 

Far Reaches Farm in Port Townsend usually sells a few. The only others I've seen have been native plant society sales and the big annual sales with many vendors. 

Regards,

Terri Bates
Maple Valley WA
Z7b garden in riparian forest at foot of cascade foothills. 

Disclaimer: most of these nursery owners are friends and fellow members of my local AIS chapter. 



On May 31, 2016, at 9:43 AM, Sarah Hinckley <sarahh@suiattle.net> wrote:

Thank you Mary Sue!

Can anyone suggest a good nursery that carries the Pacific Coast hybrids (beyond the usual white and blue ones found in many nurseries)?

I'm in western Washington, so if the nursery is out of the area, it would need to do mail order. 

Thanks!

Sarah

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> On May 31, 2016, at 6:54, Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> wrote:
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> My husband and I recently traveled north and did some hiking and visiting in Northern California, Oregon, and southern Washington. I've been adding some new photos to the wiki from our trip. I've been working on the Pacific Coast Irises page and adding species seen in the wild. We met Kathleen Sayce and I've added photos too of some of the amazing hybrids she grows in her garden in Washington. Many of these she grew from seed. I decided there were enough photos to make a page for the hybrids. She helped me with some of the text. We both agree that we are lucky to live where it is easy to grow these plants. It's been a glorious year for Iris douglasiana where I live which has been blooming for months and months, in some instances in masses. We've had a normal rainfall year after years of drought and that probably helped.
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