Re: Cult; Rain at last

Thank you, Colleen, for the vocabulary lesson.  Yes, sounds like what it takes for TB irises to grow and bloom.
Francelle Edwards, Glendale, Arizona
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Colleen Modra 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 9:47 PM
  Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Cult; Rain at last


  Francelle

  Sorry, I beleive you'd call them chickens.

  I thought our summers were hot enough, but yours sound worse.
  Recently my husband was speaking to someone from Coober Peedy ( a desert
  opal mining town) which has a climate to equal yours, and this man was
  saying how well beared irises grow up there. Stinking hot in summer,
  freezing cold in winter, not much water and alkaline soils.

  Colleen
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Francelle Edwards <fjmjedwards@worldnet.att.net>
  To: <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
  Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 3:47 AM
  Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Cult; Rain at last


  > Hi, Colleen,
  >     As you head into winter, I am heading into summer, five months of
  temperatures of 100 F degrees and above, my worst time of the year.  Irises
  here have been blooming since the middle of March and probably have two more
  weeks to go.  Every morning I go out and pollenize some of the blossoms.
  Last year out of about 25 crosses, I only got one pod, so this year I've
  made over 50 and it looks as though about 75% of them are taking.  What work
  I'm making for next spring when I have to set out all those seedlings!
  Please enlighten me.  What are chooks?
  > Francelle Edwards, Glendale, Arizona
  >   ----- Original Message -----
  >   From: Impressive Irises
  >   To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
  >   Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 6:34 PM
  >   Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Cult; Rain at last
  >
  >
  >   Hi Wendy
  >
  >   Our gardens very happy also, we got 27mm with more forecast for
  Wednesday
  >   (how often does it not rain on Anzac Day). Has turned cold now, had our
  >   first frost last week, a little later than usual. Spent yesterday
  freezing
  >   at a Plant Sale that wasn't properly publicised. Not impressed.
  >   Managed to stuff up an old hyperextension injury on my neck a few weeks
  ago,
  >   so an having problems driving. Won't be able to go to Wagga this
  weekend.
  >   Will have to stay home and rest, if I remember how. May puddle around
  and do
  >   some weeding. Little weeds are easy, and the chooks love them.
  >
  >   Looking forward to seeing some rebloom now the season has broken. My
  seeds
  >   are sprouting madly.
  >
  >   Looking forward to those JI
  >
  >   Colleen Modra
  >   South Aust
  >   zone 8/9
  >   -----Original Message-----
  >   From: wendy sargeant <wendon@dcsi.net.au>
  >   To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
  >   Date: Sunday, April 22, 2001 1:45 PM
  >   Subject: [iris-talk] Cult; Rain at last
  >
  >
  >   >Hello All,
  >   >I just wanted to yell out with great pleasure that we have finally had
  lots
  >   of lovely rain today. Yesterday we had gale force winds but not one of
  the
  >   new tb plantings heaved,,,thank heavens, as some of the Tempo Two babies
  >   where whoppingly huge rhizomes.
  >   >I have just tipped out 35 mls of lovely God Sent grass growing rain. I
  am
  >   sure all the plants in my garden are singing, from the new plantings of
  TB,
  >   Dwarves, just dug Ji;s, new Sibs and the dutch iris are already 5 inches
  up.
  >   I wonder what all the other hidden treasures are doing.....I know some
  are
  >   sprouting roots as I dug them up by error when I was slogging away
  lifting 4
  >   year old JIs for Colleen Modra.
  >   >Who needs to go to the gym when we have our gardens,boy am I sleeping
  well
  >   at nights with all my digging efforts.....No rebloom here, but lots are
  >   making many, many increases. I am hoping for a very colourful Spring
  this
  >   year.....
  >   >Cheers for now....from Wendy Sargeant in muddy , wet
  >   gumboots...Smiling....in Zone ?Not really sure at present as it has been
  so
  >   changeable lately, Australia..
  >   >
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