Re: Found? Irises
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- Subject: Re: Found? Irises
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 19:34:05 -0600 (MDT)
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Marte Halleck wrote:
> Lots of fill rock & dirt were brought in by county crews to
> do this & such "alien" fill might very well have included the original
> rhizomes. What I find wonderous, if this is the source, is that the
> rhizomes ended up close enough to the surface soil to grow & thrive!
> Iris are a very persistant life form, which is fortunate for those
> gardeners (moi) who aren't so persistant & caring for them sometimes.
>
> Marte in the mtns
>
The road graders built up the roadbeds for paving and created the
'bar ditches' thereby shifting the bulbs and perhaps rhizomes from their
original planting spots in front of the old homesteads to the current
shoulders of the road. That is why February Gold is along both sides of
the highway from here to Water Valley on the east and Charleston on the
west.
Cemetery 'flags' are easy to 'rescue' without a trowel for they
have grown on top of each other for years and have spread outside the
fences of the cemetery. I have plucked a few outside the fence.
And, I don't feel that I have robbed a grave or disturbed anything. Many
are bee crosses I am sure and some really horrid blooms may result. I
doubt that even the pioneers would plant anything so ugly as some I have
grown.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, 7/8
