Re: TB: HIST: Merrily's tough irises
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- Subject: Re: TB: HIST: Merrily's tough irises
- From: L* M*
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:39:02 -0700
Merrily - Thanks for the post about the strong and the few that survived
your rollercoaster freeze season.
Two of the four historics you sent me to babysit succumbed, but the
other two are coming along nicely, all things considered.
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone ?7
> The thing I really like about historic iris is that they're TOUGH. We had
> intermittent warmth and freeze in DC this winter with the result that many
> developing bloom stalks were affected. Several of my newer varieties caved
> under the pressure and rotted. The historics persevered, and though the
> earliest stalks came up stunted and deformed, they bloomed their hearts out
> (if only 6 inches above the ground).
>
> What prompts me to write today is the view from my back porch of NEW SNOW
> and PINNACLE. They have sent up stalks that are more than a meter tall,
> nicely branched, and sporting very large flowers. They pay no mind to the
> aphids and slugs that have been munching elsewhere in the garden, and are
> standing straight without support despite a brisk wind that has been
> whipping through the yard for the past several hours. PINNACLE is Queen of
> my Show at the moment. If I were a poet I'd write an Ode.
>
> (I'll wax eloquent about LOVELY LETTY and SNOQUALMIE some other time.)
>
> Merrily Smith
> Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
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