CULT: spring growth (and death)
- Subject: CULT: spring growth (and death)
- From: s*
- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 07:28:09 -0700
From: "sidneygardener" <sidneygardener@email.msn.com>
Linda,
Were you wet or dry last spring? We had a very wet, for New Mexico, warm
spring so maybe it was pathogens. I wouldn't have been surprised to get soft
rot but I didn't get any in my heavy clay beds.
The bed they were in was an old horse shoe pit and is very sandy compared to
the rest of my flower beds. I had also amended heavily with my own compost,
Back to Earth, decomposed cotton burr, and mushroom compost so who knows
what may have been in them. Last year was the only time its ever happened to
me, but I know a lady here in town who lost 10 or so to the same thing. The
area she lost them in was in the sandy end of her flower beds. Maybe its
excessive drainage? Are your beds sandy? Let me know if it happens again.
* By the way to anyone who read the last posting please let me apologize for
my exageration of 70 mph winds. It was actually 36 mph sustained winds.
Sorry.
Cindy
>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?
>Linda Mann east Tennessee USA wrote
>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.
>
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