Re: little spring iris
- Subject: Re: little spring iris
- From: G* A* <e*@kkeka.ericsson.se>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 02:09:09 MST
They just cut the flovers when they are about to bloom
to make the bulbs grow faster!!
Have you ever been to the Netherland flower festival
where they cover whole cities with cut flovers.?
>
> Bobby Wilder, writing about Iris danfordiae:
>
> |Anyone know where they are
> |produced in such abundance to be able to get each year blooming bulbs.
>
> The Netherlands. Dutch growers manage to produce seemingly infinite
> quantities of blooming-size bulbs, even of types that are notoriously
> difficult to perpetuate in gardens. I have always wondered how this
> is done. I even wonder about tulips and hyacinths: I have never seen
> any procedure for producing a reliable supply of top-size bulbs in
> the garden. What _do_ they do?
>
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