Re: REF: help - ideas?

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• Subject: [iris] Re: REF: help - ideas?
• From: C*@aol.com
• Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:36:11 EST
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In a message dated 1/21/05 5:11:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

<< I've never believed the soil splash explanation though.>>

I don't like it either. It does not seem to jive with my experience, and I 
generally don't favor explanations which make something natural and inevitable, 
like routine rain, out to be a bad guy. Of course, Mother Nature loves her 
crud spores, too.
 
<< I think dense weeds/grass provide some protection from late winter/early
 spring freeze damage (iris are shaded so are slower to initiate spring
 growth), are intense competitors for nitrogen, starving irises & keeping
 down lush growth [...] Unfortunately, those slower growing plants usually 
don't bloom as wellas the rampant, lush, well tended ones.  Unless the exposed 
ones get
 damaged by late freezes. >>

Well, that is a drag for sure . .On the Horns of a Dilemma in the Slough of 
Despond; sounds like a country song. With apologies to Bunyan, of course. 

Cordially,

Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA

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