RE:Cult Cold Climate planting

Just to add food for thought  re rotting rhizomes.

One year a package of iris plants got delayed in Customs (happens to at least one package a year) and arrived to late to ssafely plant outside. As they were quite dried outI placed them in a bucket of water to plump up, planning to plant them in pots. Bucket was in the garage. One thing led to another and they were still there in the spring, all alive and healthy, no rot. They were all fully emersed, no rhizome showing. Bucket even froze a few times.  Being wet when no active growth had no ill effects on the plants. When they started to grow in spring some rot started to develop. 

Chuck Chapman

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