Re: [Weather] Brrrr!!! Will these plants survive?
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: [Weather] Brrrr!!! Will these plants survive?
  • From: B* W* <a*@aol.com>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 08:50:49 -0500 (EST)
Scarlett, could you please report to the list on how the irises respond to
this?  The sever swing in temperature highs and lows seems to be the killer.
Do you know if they were actively growing when the temps dropped?


<<It has been in the sixties quite often over the past few weeks.  Now  our
high (southern NM, just above the Mexican border) is in the low teens for 2
ays straight!>>

At least our winter has been consistently nasty.

Betty W.






-----Original Message-----
From: SDAyres2 <SDAyres2@aol.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 6:42 am
Subject: [iris] [Weather] Brrrr!!! Will these plants survive?


It has been in the sixties quite often over the past few weeks.  Now  our
igh (southern NM, just above the Mexican border) is in the low teens for 2
ays straight!   This morning it is -80 F.   I cannot  remember a time in
he 30 years I  have lived here where it didn't get  above freezing in the
fternoon.   Once every few years it can get in  the single digits at night,
ut -80???   This must be what it is like  for you guys living up north.
It has been called the coldest day ever.  We are breaking low low and  low
igh temperature records with a sledge hammer.
I assume all the Irises will survive even though they have started spring
rowth.  My seedlings in pots have not poked through the soil yet.
verything is covered with 4 inches of snow.  Will they be okay?
What about the amaryllises?  evergreen daylilies? and the  dahlias?  Will I
ose them?  Can they survive 2 whole  days where  it never got above 150 F?
Scarlett

.S.  I hope the yuccas and cactus  survive.
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