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Re: Re: gargoyles (was Faerie tricks)

That type of weather is the real problem; freeze/thaw happens here a lot in early spring.  This year, we had about 10 days of nice weather, which melted most of the several feet of snow.  Then, most of my new iris looked great in my 3 nursery beds, with no heaving either.  I was about to do the happy iris dance, when it got colder and colder, then snowed, which lasted another few weeks.  By the time that finally melted, many of the new iris had heaved themselves right out of the soil and it was too frozen to push them back in.  My husband picked up a few bags of sand, which I then hucked on each new iris; took me 2 days.  Looks like it may have helped though, since it looks like I may have only lost 10 of over 200 new irises, which is about average.
 
Interesting to note that the new iris planted at the end of July or the beginning of August, didn't heave.  Only the ones planted closer to the end of Aug hucked themselves out of the soil.
 
El
 
Eleanor Hutchison, MIS & DIS Display Garden
Ste Anne, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Z3
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Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Re: gargoyles (was Faerie tricks)

I think it must be Linda.  I rarely see rot around here and this year, I have uncovered lots!  The main change this year has been that strange warm-cold episode that we got.  I have heard from lots of fellow iris people in this area that they are experiencing the same thing.  Rhizomes apparently just couldn't handle the diverse changes in the midst of their main "hay making" time.  I just finished cleaning all the beds yesterday.  I have a mountain of trash from the clean up that I will dowse and set fire to today!  So glad to see it all go.  But I lost a number of iris to rot this year.  Can't remember the last time that happened.  Usually if I get any, I catch it early, clean out any mush and sprinkle the rhizome with dry cleanser and the cleans it up in the blink of an eye.  This year, I've been ripping iris up, because the damage is too bad to save it!  Really Stinks!!!!!!!!----------no pun intended! :)

On 5/1/07, Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com> wrote:

I love it! Want my own gargoyles to flank a sign that says 'Rot Queen's
Garden'

Definitely stinks like the bad old days out there when I won my title,
but hadn't yet figured out the cause was the unique severity of freeze
and dew damage here.
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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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