Re: CULT:Gardening Advice
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT:Gardening Advice
- From: J* C*
- Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 10:04:06 -0600
Mark,
My MDB'S start blooming in late March and overlap my SDB'S which blooming
second week of April. The little one's like the cooler weather. Most are
from I. pumila heritage.
Jim Clark in Mo.
-----Original Message-----
From: BigAlligator@aol.com <BigAlligator@aol.com>
To: iris-talk@egroups.com <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Date: Monday, January 01, 2001 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT:Gardening Advice
>In a message dated 1/1/01 8:36:57 AM Eastern Standard Time,
storylade@aol.com
>writes:
>
><< But begin blooming in April . . . with MDB's sometimes beginning in late
> March. >>
>
>Betty,
> Sorry for the dud message before this. Darned thing accidentally
>sent. My experiences with Irises in Kentucky was in Lexington, and I think
>that bloom season is a week or ten days later than your area.
> The only Iris there that would bloom in March [excluding short
lived
>bulbous species] was ATROVIOLACEA. The SDB's would start in mid April, and
>the earlist of TB varieties in late April, that is if they did not get
>frozen. The bulk of the Iris bloom season was in May, with Japanese and
>Louisianas in June.
> I did not try some of the extra early blooming types because a
>horrific freeze in April was an almost certain thing.
>
>Mark A. Cook
>BigAlligator@aol.com
>Dunnellon, Florida. [Having horrific freezes here...]
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