Re: Denver Iris

From: "Bryan Yates" <bdyates@webwide.net>



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> From: Rusty Thornsburg <rtburg@mailexcite.com>
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] Re: Denver Iris
> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 9:27 PM
> 
> From: "Rusty Thornsburg" <rtburg@mailexcite.com>
> 
>  
> --
> 
> >On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Lew Best wrote:
> >
> >> From: "Lew Best" <lewbest@mail2.texnet.net>
> >> 
> >> Received my iris today also from Denver show, am very impressed.
> >> 
> >> I'm in Central Texas (Zone 8) and very new to iris growing.  We have
had 25
> >> or so straight days of 100+ temps with no rain, no relief in heat or
drought
> >> in sight.
> >> 
> >> Watering iris no problem, but with possible occasional lower 20's to
upper
> >> teens in the winter and bad growing conditions now, should I plant
these
> >> Denver iris in pots until spring or in the ground now?  If in pots,
what
> >> size?
> >> 
> >> Plan to do one or the other tomorrow, so please help me decide asap
> >> 
> I too, received my Denver order... they gave me everything I asked for
except
> for one! They also marked one NC, and there's one more that I'm not too
pleased
> with the condition, but for the most part, I was wowed by the rz's.  I
will trim
> and clean them tomorrow morning (before the temps get into the 100's...
before
> 11am) and then, I will find a place to plant them.  Before I hear "you
can't do
> that!" Let me tell you that I planted 40 things at the start of July, and
I've
> only  "lost" 2 of them... so I'd say to you "yes I can!"  In fact, I've
spent
> the last 2 days planting things from the Dallas sale... many of them were
in
> need of being planted asap... sunburnt leaves, etc.  BUT I do have
partial shade
> where my gardens are, and I kept them watered 2 x daily for 2 weeks...  
> 
> I just wanted to sahare my experience.
> 
> Rusty
> 
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Rusty I guess from this message I've missed the Dallas Iris sale but when
is the Fort Worth Iris sale.

Theresa Yates
bdyates@webwide.net

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