Re: TBs in Zone 3

From: Ellen Gallagher <e_galla@moose.ncia.net>

	John Mongomery wrote:

>The following year we got a report back from the Society. Forty nine of
>the fifty rhizomes lived (I. pallida variegata did not survive.)

	I found this most interesting - I. pallida variegata (Aurea)
	does very well here - I do not have I. pallida variegata (Argentea)
	which I know John has...which one did you send them? If it was
	the more tender Argentea, I will not get it.

>Further, most of them bloomed the first spring and all of them did so
>during the second spring. The cultivars included about twelve Dykes
>Medal winners and the others were mostly introductions from the
>1980-1989 period.

	Mine all do well - well, all 15 of them do. :)) I am still planting
	bearded (way behind this year because of our move) and consider
	this a test year...have to hope that the hard frost doesn't come
	until Oct. 1st. If it come in Sept., this will be the ultimate
	test - I do NOT mulch bearded irises in Zone 3a, BTW. I did one
	year and decided it was too risky when the snow melts late in the
	Spring and leaves puddles around the rhizomes, etc. Now they are
	on their own and none the worse for it.

	Cheers,

	Ellen



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