Re: CULT: spring growth (and death)
- Subject: Re: CULT: spring growth (and death)
- From: l* M*
- Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 05:44:58 -0500
From: linda Mann <lmann@mailhub.icx.net>
Cindy Rivera in Albuquerque NM wrote:
> I get something in the spring where the iris will
> have lots of actively growing increase and then the whole plant dies crispy
> and hard. Does that happen in Texas? What is it caused from?
That happened to two established TB 'clumps' here in Tennessee last
year. Very wierd and unlike other forms of death I've seen. Both
cultivars seemed to have growth habits that I've come to think of as
aphylla-ish - dormant in summer drought - which usually is a plus here.
Neither had been particularly vigorous, but had been healthy and managed
to bloom the two preceeding years, although the flower stalks were
stunted a bit by cold or drought. They were adjacent to one another in
the row, which makes me suspect some form of pathogen rather than
weather/soil.
Hard to imagine that you'd have the same types of pathogen problems in
New Mexico that I would here, but with all the freaky weather we've been
having, who knows.
Can you believe it? I don't suspect rollercoaster freeze injury! :)
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
off to Hiwassee Game Refuge to stare at 10,000 migrating eastern
Sandhill Cranes this morning. The blurb sez they are heading south - at
this time of year? Do those cranes know something the rest of us don't?
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