RE: Re: HYB: seedling strength (was photos Results of two luminata c...

Hi Scarlett

Here in Oz, in our part of the country we have no city supply of water and
out bore (well) water is too salty to drink and too full of iron to wash
with. It's OK to flush the toilet and water the garden, well the irises and
daylilies (plenty of other plants don't like it).
All our household water, inc drinking, is collected rainwater off our roof.
We have 3x 5000 gal tanks which can keep us 6 months with no rainfall.
Having said that we have virtually no pollution, other than dirt-dust. I'm
not sure I could drink water after it had fallen through USA pollution, like
I saw in California, but it would be wonderful for the garden.


Colleen Modra
Adelaide Hills 
South Australia

www.impressiveirises.com.au





-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
sdayres2@aol.com
Sent: Friday, 1 February 2008 5:15 AM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] Re: HYB: seedling strength (was photos Results of two
luminata c...

I remember reading a web site from Tennessee that stated that irises did not
need supplemental water once established.?? I thought it must be nice
growing irises where you did not have to water twice a week in the summer.?
Us desert rats have to plan for ease of watering if we want to grow irises
in any great quantitiy.? It? must have been difficult for you guys back east
to suddenly realize that rainfall will be in short supply and you will have
to drag out the old water hoses.? It must have been doubly difficult if you
were under water restrictions on top of that!

I sympathize with the cost of watering.? I keep wondering if it would be
worth it to buy some of those rain barrels/tanks to collect the water
falling on the roof.? However, they are $80 or higher.? My grandmother lived
in Kentucky.? Her old house had a cistern.?? I thought that would be nice
for gardening if it had an electric pump.



Scarlett


-----Original Message-----
From: autmirislvr@aol.com
To: iris@hort.net
Sent: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 7:11 am
Subject: Re: [iris] Re: HYB: seedling strength (was photos Results of two
luminata c...




Scarlett, 

I can only answer for me.? (Betty Wilkerson, south central KY, zone 6)
(Sorry 
but I sometimes forget to add this since it's no longer automatic.)

Most of my beds were not on soaker hoses.??There was?a supply issue.? Don't
like 
the flat ones.? The new seedlings were watered with an over headhead
sprinkler.? 
The water $$ for the first month was staggering.? I had no choice, but to 
abandon anything that wasn't life threatening.? The newly planted
seedlings?were 
watered enough for survival?and the large quantity of potted plants were 
watered.? A few rebloomers that were planted by a drip line (dew) bloomed. I
saw 
a couple of stalks on Feed Back, Returning Chameleon, & Echo Location.? One 
clump of Returning Chameleon bloomed on every rhizome!? One at a time!?
Lovely!? 
Improved my impression of an old friend.? One straggly bloom stalk on
1625-01re 
bloomed.? To my knowledge, it did not get water.??

I did purchase more round soaker hoses when I found a supply.? More
rebloomers 
are on soaker hoses for 2008.?I'm downsizing and rearranging the garden as I

go.??I suspect all irises will be on soaker hoses by the end of the 
reconstruction.?My beds are designed with the 50" soaker hoses in
mind.??Three 
rows with a soaker hose between?the rows.? Two hoses per bed works for me.??

?

?



I just want to stress that reblooming irises is possible under desert  
conditions (with supplemental water).




-----Original Message-----
From: SDAyres2@aol.com
To: iris@hort.net
Sent: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 7:02 am
Subject: Re: [iris] Re: HYB: seedling strength (was photos Results of two 
luminata c...



I am mildly confused.  I've been reading the chat room emails this  fall and

have gotten the impression that hot dry conditions ruins the chance of  
reblooming irises and I know that is not true. I live in the desert with
hot 
dry 
summers.  We get less than 8 inches a rain a year.  Yet I had  lots of 
reblooming irises last fall beginning with August continuing on to  December

(this 
year).  Of course, people who grow irises in the desert have  the hoses, 
sprinklers and underground irrigation in place to get the plants  through
the 
summer 
since it doesn't rain for most weeks or most months for that  matter.  Plus
we 
are blessed with a long mild autumn.
 
Were the growers who experienced unexpected drought conditions not allowed  
to water?   I suspect that this might be the case.  Or was it  just that
there 
was no irrigation equipment in place since they normally depend  upon rain? 
 
I just want to stress that reblooming irises is possible under desert  
conditions (with supplemental water).
 
Scarlett



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