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First thing, let it be known that I am not a seed collecting person - I only just collected my first three daylily pods. This is totally new to me.
I grow what I have always known as "blue swamp iris" - it's a pass-along plant here. They get to be between 5 and 6 ft tall, blue flowers on top of the scape, as well as alternating along the sides - two flowers per site, blooming in the spring - late March to Early April-ish. The flowers are blue and held above the foliage. They really are lovely, very tough and not aggressive at all. I've heard others lately refer to these as blue Louisiana iris. I believe these are a species iris, prolly one of the species from which the LA iris are bred. In fact, I think they might be Iris giganticaerulea - http://davesgarden.com/pdb/go/60454/index.html
Here's the thing - I have always dead headed them, but this spring my DD wanted to let them go to seed - to see what happened. They went to seed, alright . . . huge, ugly swollen looking seed pods, several to a scape all summer long! Most of the scapes bent to the ground with the weight of these things. I have been so tempted to hack them down, but I didn't. Now, finally! the seed pods are cracking . . . but what's inside doesn't look like my idea of a seed!
So, I messed with the things, until one of them broke open to reveal a seed inside. Double packing? hmmmm.
So, my question now is how to plant these? Do I break the Styrofoam type stuff off of the seed? Or does it need that stuff for nutrition? Somebody please help me . . .
Meanwhile, here are pics of the pods and such.
This first pic is of new green pods, taken in early May. They are already bent to the ground. These scapes are 5 to 6 ft tall, so most did not actually break, they just arched over.
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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