Re: HELP!!!
I am AMAZED at what a TB rhizome will put up with. About seven years ago
(when I didn't know any better), I bought a collection of TB's from
Springhill Nursery. When they arrived, I was too busy to put them in the
ground. "Company" was expected and my husband (who is NOT a flower person)
put the unopened box of iris rhizomes IN THE ATTIC. Months rocked by and we
never thought of them. It's mid zone 8 here and the attic gets quite hot in
the summer. I discovered the rhizomes about 1 1/2 years (YES, YEARS) later
and upon opening the box, the rhizomes were as hard as petrified wood. Just
for the heck of it, I planted them not expecting anything to live. Believe
it or not, over half of them survived. It took two years for any of them to
bloom......but, good grief, look what they'd been through.
I have also planted TB rhizomes in the dead of winter (as an experiment) and
have never lost a rhizome. Usually they will not bloom that following
spring, but never have lost one....
About the only way I can kill a TB is to drown it.....Marietta Jones Grand
Cane, LA irisjones@bellsouth.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael D. Greenfield <redear@infinet.com>
To: <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HELP!!!
>
>
> ----------
> > From: r.gair@hdpgroup.com
> > To: iris-talk@egroups.com
> > Subject: [iris-talk] HELP!!!
> > Date: Saturday, April 08, 2000 10:06 AM
> >
> > I am about to do some major landscaping. I am putting in a pathway
> > and pond. We have a fabulous iris bed, filled with a number of
> > varieties. I must confess that the bed has needed a facelift for
> > some time and, well now that I am doing this work it will have to be
> > done now. I have been given my orders that all work is to be
> > completed by 15 Jun.
> >
> > Researching the digging up, seperating and replanting of these
> > wonderful flowers is posing somewhat of a dilema for me. I am aware
> > that late summer is the best time, but am unable to wait.
> >
> > When is the earliest I can get going on these - I am in Nova Scotia,
> > and like everyone on the east coast have not been subjected to alot
> > of frost. The iris plants are already 6", and I am afraid that the
> > plants might become too large if I wait much longer. Then again, I
> > am concerned about one last frost and snow.
> >
> > PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
> >
> > Rob
>
> Hi Rob I am on the south edge of zone 5 in SW Ohio. March 1999 I dug and
> moved 30 + iris. I did not trim leaves or roots. Did not separate
rhizomes,
> just planted the clumps. Over half bloomed. Stalks seemed short, grow
> slowed some. All are doing great this year, lost none. As I see it as long
> as you don't keep them out of the ground till they dry out you will have
no
> problem moving them now.
>
> Mike Greenfield
> redear@infinetcom
> SW Ohio Zone 5b USA
>
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