Re: Re: AB: PINK BETTERMENT mutation

I have Edith Wolford in a very dappled shade location. The Rhizomes are exposed to open air. The soil is on the tough side and needs amendments to lighten it up. It has divided admirably there and looks like it will have 3 or 4 bloomstalks this year. I was going to move part of it  but after what I have read I may just leave it as long as it does not crowd itself. It only gets sun until 10 or 11 am. It also gets reflected light off the windshield of my car. I have had other iris I had to move into the sun to make happy but this is not one of them. I do use supersulfate once in the spring and again in the fall. Maybe this will help. I hope so. My flowers on this plant are just luminous with beautiful branching. It tolerated 111 degrees for a week last summer and 30 below with no cover last December. Maybe it can not tolerate full sun.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kitty & Bruce Loberg 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 7:36 AM
  Subject: [iris-talk] TB Edith Wolford


  Sandra,
       Edith Wolford, in my warmer Calif. climate doesn't grow well or
  increase much.   Same with Beverly Sills.   I had just about given up on
  Edith.  Then two years ago I put it in a new bed with LOTS of compost...
  iris food... and it's doing quite nicely.   I don't know if it likes to be a
  heavy feeder or not... anyone else have an experience of saving iris by
  planting in heavy compost with those varieties which don't seem to thrive?
  Kitty Loberg, Northern Calif.

  >I tried Edith Wolford, too.  She didn't make the winter.  I am on my third
  and
  >hopefully final time for Honky Tonk Blues ( it bloomed for me once and I
  loved
  >it),

  > >.  So far, 18 of them look like they've survived this
  > > prolonged winter, including Edith Wolford (her 3rd & LAST CHANCE HERE!).
  >


        Yahoo! Groups Sponsor 

        Learn About Compaq Servers 
       

  Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. 



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


 

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index