Re: ot:floral arrangements


From: dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, pat cory wrote:

> From: patcory@webtv.net (pat cory)
> 
> Greg:  I sell iris stems at the farmers market.  The secret is to pick
> them when the first bud is just ready to open.  They will last four to
> seven days if you keep the water clean with a drop of clorox bleach.
> Pat Cory central Iowa USDA zone 5

Pat is there anything else that should go in the water? I tried to bring
in my Rosalie Figge blooms last October but the bud didn't even open.
How could I have helped this better? I didn't put Chlorox in so maybe
that was it.

-- 
Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca> 
Zone 4/5 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada 
AIS, CIS, SIGNA, IRIS-L, Canadian Wildflower Soc.

URL for the North American Native Irises web page
http://molly.hsc.unt.edu/~rbarton/Iris/NANI.html


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