Re: Upward & Onward

> iris in it. The iris have now maxed out the box, so we need to remove
> the box, divide the iris, and start all over again. It's always
> something.

Jim, with a year-round growing season and so many plants that so readily
multiply, what do you do with the excess?  I realize you relocate your extra
orchids by tying them to trees, but what about things like this Iris?  Do
you give them away or compost?  or something else?  Part of the reason I'm
able to have my plant sale is that I don't like to compost something that
really wants to live.  I figure someone will want it - even tawny
daylilies - and they do sell.  But my growing season is mauch shorter than
yours and iffy items are more likely to fail than flourish.  If I had an
environment like yours, I'd be potting non-stop and running out of room and
having a sale every month.  I don't know that I could keep up with it.  So
where do you draw the line?  What gets trashed?

Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
To: "Chat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 12:38 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Upward & Onward


> About 2 years ago, we potted up ligustrum cuttings in 3-gallon pots. We
> were going to keep jumping them in size until they reached 15 gallon,
> then sell them. Since then, we confiscated and planted four ourselves
> in a mixed hedge and gave another three or four away [Ms Fatma's school
> is a black hole for plants]. Well, we forgot one. And when we cleaned
> out the rear area of Ms Fatma's reading room a couple of weeks
> ago--there it was, 8 feet tall with enormous roots that had ripped up
> the pot and sunk into the ground.
>
> Since it was "about" where we would have planted a tree of some kind,
> we decided to cut the remainder of the pot off, build a
> pressure-treated wooden box around it, fill the box with soil, and
> plant smaller stuff in the box so it looked like we had intended to do
> this all along.
>
> I finally got around to doing that today. I transplanted calla lilies
> and caladiums--both of which are just now breaking the surface in this
> neighborhood--around the base of the tree.
>
> We did a similar kind of box a number of years ago and planted African
> iris in it. The iris have now maxed out the box, so we need to remove
> the box, divide the iris, and start all over again. It's always
> something.
>
> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> Hardiness Zone 10
> Heat Zone 10
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
>
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