AW: little spring iris
- Subject: AW: little spring iris
- From: H* v* B* <h*@tip.nl>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 11:08:04 MST
Hi there to Gunnar and all the others,
Growing bulbs is not only a job it is a science too. It is a science =
there where laboratoria are coming into the picture.
Basicly it is as follows for spring flowering bulbs: buy them early =
(=3Dseptember) and store them when necessary in a coll spot. Plant them =
at the approp. depth in a soil which is preferably
sandy or peaty but soft and water retentative. Water them when =
necessary. Go inside and enjoy the winter.
In spring when the flowers are unfolding you have to give the normal =
quantity of fertilizer.=20
Less nitrogen but lots of phostrogen and potash. After flowering you cut =
away the flowers and ovary (=3D to avoid getting seed). If necessary =
give another supply of fertilizer (depending what you have used). =
Depending on what soil you garden you either leave the bulbs in the soil =
to over-summer or you dig them out when the leaves has died down (this =
is you own experience). This answer came from Holland. Zone 5 (as I have =
been told).
Herman
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Van: Gunnar Andersson[SMTP:ekaguan@kkeka.ericsson.se]
Verzonden: dinsdag 27 februari 1996 10:08
Aan: Multiple recipients of list
Onderwerp: Re: little spring iris
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.?
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> Bobby Wilder, writing about Iris danfordiae:
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> |Anyone know where they are
> |produced in such abundance to be able to get each year blooming =
bulbs.
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> 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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> Tom Tadfor Little tlittle@lanl.gov -or- telp@Rt66.com
> technical writer/editor Los Alamos National Laboratory
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