Re: Re: HYB: Blyth survivors 2

>Some do ok
> the first year, then slowly dwindle.

This is a characteristic of a lot of my acquisitions.  I'm 
sure it's related to an unfriendly garden habitat (weather 
extremes, intractible clay).  On some if I can just get 
them past that second year they will do okay to good.  But 
on some they seem to manage about three seasons and then 
dwindle, no matter what I do to them.  Iris decline?


> Most of his babies are vulnerable
> to fairly serious damage from warm spells during winter 
and early spring
> followed by sudden hard freezes (low 20s).

Tough on a lot of plants.   Going to happen tonight.  
We've just gone through a warm spell long enough to 
trigger new growth in a lot of irises.  I was noticing 
just how much new growth this weekend.  70's yesterday, 
dropping fast toward the low 20's tonight.  That new 
growth will get burned.

As Linda says, some plants can take it pretty well.  There 
are a lot that don't accept it in stride though.  I've 
never really calculated whether they followed specific 
hybridizers.  Burseen is not a long way from where I'm 
located and while many of his that I've grown have done 
well, there are those that just wimped out.  Seems to me 
that a lot of new modern things don't do well.  I think 
because time has not weeded them out as it has the older 
ones.  Another decade or so and that will have been sorted 
out :).

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA
 

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