Re: Re: HYB:REB:Research:Acceptance

----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@lock-net.com> 
To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:44 PM
Subject: [iris] Re: HYB:REB:Research:Acceptance



Not necessarily.
But, I'd guess they will always take a little extra work.
My nearly housebound aunt could barely walk & was unable to do any garden work at all for the last 5 or 6 yrs of her life and had no one doing any yard work for her other than mowing the grass. I planted a clump of IMMORTALITY next to the house, adjacent to the outside water spigot (just in case anybody used it for anything, so it might get a little extra water now and then). Piled some leaves around it, and when I visited her once a year, sprinkled a little osmocote around and scratched it into the surface soil. Swannanoa, outside Asheville, western NC.
She and her sister-in-law would call me every summer absolutely thrilled with the <beautiful> rebloom. Usually one short stalk with three or four blooms, nothing a passionate irisarian would get excited about, but they thought it was pretty amazing. And I still react that way myself. 

And yes, Anner, 6 inches of hardwood mulch is what I'd like to see, too!

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