Re: Re: SIB: SIBERIAN IRIS
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: SIB: SIBERIAN IRIS
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- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 06:10:30 +1030
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In my experience you can move TBs anytime. When we took over the business we
moved over 50,000 plants between winter and late spring with very good
success. I prefer to move TB when they are actively growing rather than in
midsummer when they are semidorant and it is stinking hot. My preferred time
is autumn to winter, in our climate.
Not much experience in moving sibs out of season. I did plant out a pot of
sib last spring while it was flowering and it did OK.
Colleen Modra
South Australia
Zone 8/9
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From: Arnold Koekkoek <koekkoek@mtcnet.net>
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Saturday, February 10, 2001 2:06 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: SIB: SIBERIAN IRIS
>I, too, was unable to dig/divide/transplant my Siberians last fall, but I'm
not at all concerned. In fact, I have often done this in the spring and
with uniformly good results. I've never lost one, never had it fail to
bloom (often in the same season), and I find it much easier to do this when
all the foliage hasn't grown up yet. Just have to keep those roots damp, as
always. I have dug them this way, divided, and then taken the divisions to
my club meeting to give away the extras, and that has worked for the people
who got them, too. I have also gotten them in the mail in the spring and
not lost the plants. I don't think it is conventional wisdom to be doing
this in spring, but it works for me, and I prefer it. They get a whole
season to put down their roots for winter, too. As to beardeds, I only know
that I've seen people move them in the spring because they were moving to
another house and didn't want to leave their iris behind. Moved at this
time they don't always bloom on schedule--depends on how much growth they've
already put on, I suppose--but sometimes they even bloom that same spring.
Of course, this was with older varieties and the people who did it weren't
irisarians, so probably if we tried it with our expensive babies, the fancy
and costly hybrids, they wouldn't co-operate! :-)
>Arnold
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>Arnold & Carol Koekkoek
>38 7th Street, NE
>Sioux Center, IA 51250
>e-mail koekkoek@mtcnet.net
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