Re: Iris monoculture; Bug of the evening

In a message dated 96-04-19 19:48:27 EDT, you write:

>	Mosquitos???
>
>		Next you'll be talking about shorts and sun screen.

Not quite.  It's black flies tonight.  Boy do those suckers pack a mean bite.
 You don't realize you're being bitten half the time, but the itching will
last for a week...

>Are you suggesting a monoculture of iris might be better protection from
>borer than a mixture? 

Nope.  Only noting that I find it easier, via inspection,  to keep tabs on
 and manually control (SQUISH!),  borers in bearded irises than in beardless
ones.  But as Clarence so gleefully noted, borers survived quite well on
beardless irises before bearded ones....

Dorothy
DFingerhoo@aol.com
Newfield, NY-- yup, still here while most everyone else runs off to
Convention in CA. (sniff-sniff!)
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