Re: CULT: hot nights
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- Subject: Re: CULT: hot nights
- From: D* L* <g*@rogerswave.ca>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:08:22 -0600 (MDT)
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Linda Mann wrote:
> Lloyd Zurbrigg wrote:
> >Members of iris-L should be told that I pumila and its
> >derivatives do not like hot climates. If anyone can tell me how to grow
> >it like you grow it, (SUSLIK), I would be ever so grateful.
>
> I am going to experiment with 'tricking' fall rebloomers into blooming
> earlier by freezing cola bottles full of water, then lying them around
> the rhizomes summer evenings to cool off soil and rhizomes. Maybe
> pumila genes would like this too?
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
Linda, Hope this produces something. Let us know.
Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca> <- private email address
Zone 4/5 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
AIS, CIS, SIGNA, IRIS-L, Canadian Wildflower Soc.
URL for the North American Native Irises web page
http://molly.hsc.unt.edu/~rbarton/Iris/NANI.html
