Re: AR-suggestions needed for zone 5 garden
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- Subject: Re: AR-suggestions needed for zone 5 garden
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:22:04 -0600 (MDT)
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, JEM 300 wrote:
> In a message dated 98-04-28 01:04:03 EDT, you write:
>
> << I'm not an arilbred expert by any means, but I do grow some successfully,
> and my garden is Zone 5. However, you're going to have a problem to
> overcome as far as growing the ABs with more aril content: Wisconsin isn't
> noted for being dry in the summer. Even if you have an area you consider
> dry, you're still likely to get more rain and have more humidity (lots more
> humidity) than the arils are comfortable with. Why not start with some of
> the quarter-breds, hopefully some from gardens in your area rather than
> gardens in more dry areas? Then if they do well for you, you can start
> trying to add those with more aril content.
>
> Barb Mann in Santa Fe, figuring we're going right from winter to summer this
> year, sometime in June >>
>
No place could be more humid than MS in the summertime. You see
our people depicted in the movies sitting on our verandas, sipping mint
juleps, and fanning ourselves with funeral home fans trying to survive in
the heat and humidity.
Seriously, our arilbred irises don't seem to be all that concerned
with the humidity if they are planted on the south side of the house under
a long roof overhang. The ones that do best are the Les Peterson
arilbreds, and a newer one (for me, that is) from Ben Hager called
ZERZURA. These are all half breds. Quarter talls can fend for themselves
almost anywhere in the garden, but not the quarter medians. I seem to
think they need a little more water and tlc and should be grown in a
protected place. WI winters would make the little ones shiver, I think.
The Kary Garden in Scottsdale, AZ, lists all of the Peterson
irises, as Ardi Kary is a daughter or granddaughter of Les. She usually
has an ad in the classified section of the AIS Bulletin.
BOLD SENTRY by Les Peterson makes an excellent parent.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
