RE: Cult Over Wintering
- Subject: [iris] RE: Cult Over Wintering
- From: i*@netscape.net (Chuck Chapman)
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:29:11 -0400
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
Good point Sandra. Not sur I can answer this other then established plants have more root mass ans perhaps more heat sink. ie: the more mass in the ground the cooler the rhizome is and less temperature differential between top & bottom. This is just a wild guess.
Current soil is well drained (usually) sandy loam, but last garden was hard clay and I don't notice any difference re overwintering except that plants seem to tolerate being planted deeper.
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Chuck Chapman, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Zone 4/5
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