RE: Re: CULT - Timing?
- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] Re: CULT - Timing?
- From: M* M*
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:14:01 -0400
I dig up blooming clumps too. But make sure they are well watered a day or
two before because sometimes they droop after being dug. I generally dig a
nice pie shaped wedge out of a three year clump. A couple of years ago a
nice clump of blooming SDB Hopscotch with 5 bloomstalks on it got $20 at the
hort auction! That's pretty well top dollar at a hort event. Most auction
material goes for $5-$10. When I dig, I make sure that the mother rhizome
has some small ones growing already.
Maureen
Ottawa, Ontario (zone 4) -- where we're going to get a few days of summer
this week
Folks,
I plan to go one step further this year and lift fully blooming
irises to sell at the local Farmers Market and to people visiting the
garden while the irises are in bloom. That's how I plan to make more
room for cvs more key to my hyb projects.
I'd never have thought that was possible, but Darlene at Snowpeak
told me she did it with no ill aftereffects. Which makes some sense
to me, in fact: traumatizing a plant right before bloom would be
disastrous. But once it's done its thing, it's ready for the next
thing. And Darlene says she can sell a blooming iris far better than
representing it with a picture. So I plan to lift the rhizome
carefully, soil and all, and lower it into a plastic bag, and tell
the buyer to lower it as carefully into the prepared soil, same mix,
at the same level.
I'll report how it goes.
Patricia Brooks
Whidbey Island, WA, zone 8
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