ALL HAIL TO THE ROBIN
- Subject: ALL HAIL TO THE ROBIN
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 96 17:24:16 MST
All Hail To The robin
This the first time I have had the courage to enter this group in writing .I
do have reams of your erudite and nutty conversations .We are the Davis,
Dirty Hands Doug & Mother Muriel. We live in Southern Cal., Long Beach, to be
precise .We live near the L.A. River ,so our soil is fine silt. It is so fine
that water sensetive South African plants easily die from lack of water
with regular watering . We have composted
Does it help to know everything for 30 yrs. and still the soil is WELL
DRAINED. O Well. We grow most of our own salad materials ,tomatoes for
canning & drying,, herbs for year round use ,oranges, lemons, limes
,linequats, avocados ,and plums .We live in town on a city lot and a half.
Ours is the original farm house for this area .Years ago I had quite an iris
garden I even did some hybridizing. With an up and growing family most of
that" went the way of." Im trying to get back into growing iris again. Our
soil will grow arils quite well. I want to also grow Japanese Iris, and TBs.
To help round out who we are, I paint, grow Bonsai ,do butterfly gardening
(really), feed hummingbirds ,collect Mud men(20-40s Chinese figures),collect
depression glass(Fire king ,) My wife collects Princess Pattern Depression
Glass and we take care of the grand children, A LOT. We have more to say
than this, but Ill let it go for now.
>>>>Iris are quite hardy but I have no idea about how they fair in places
like Southern CAso I expect you wont have problems.( Cheryl & Erich
Schaefer)
Well let me tell you about our problems: First of all, with out frequent
earthquakes TB"s are almost out of the question because there is structural
damage to such high rise iris .After each tremor there are acres of TBs
shattered because they were poorly designed and constructed. The
miniatures do much better during earthquakes. Now ,as to the wild fires
that regularly sweep the country side, the TBs again do poorly .When we
have whats called a crown fire ,the fire sweeps across and burns the
blossoms of the tops of the TBS. The miniatures do well unless we have
whats called a ground fire .Then they are in trouble. FLOODS: We like floods
because our soil can use the water. ( WE are well drained ( The soil))
RE-BLOOMING: Im afraid I dont understand .We may have a problem. We
didnt know that they were supposed to stop blooming. How can we in SO. CAL.
Get ours to stop blooming so that we can be more like every one else ? Can
you get back to me on this? COLD: WE had to put long pants on the other day.
Bummer
Until later
Dirty Hands Doug & Mother Muriel
PS we just joined HIPS, & AIS , ordered in tons of catalogues and are ready
to go. I think we might even go to the convention in Sacramento .Hoe many of
you are going?
