Re: Purple Based Foliage Project
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- Subject: Re: Purple Based Foliage Project
- From: m*@tricities.net (Mike Lowe)
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 20:14:24 -0700 (MST)
Sharon writes: What if we use the # of years since the last replacement?
I have a feeling that the period of time an iris spends in any given garden
is a variable driven by many factors. The contribution that hardiness makes
to total-time-grown may be smaller than we realize.
A iris grower one state over from us adds 60 to 120 new (1996 intros in
1996) iris each year. A commensurately large number of iris also leave his
small garden each year. I would guess that he has less than 10% of iris
that stay in his garden over three years. (excluding SIBs!)
Looking over my discard/die records approx 10-20% of our cultivars turnover
each year. Many more leave because of a terminal case of the uglies or
do-nothings than croak.
I suspect that we might want to solicit iris-l input of cultivars that
surcumbed to disease or weather after surviving a settling-in period. This
would speak to the lack of hardiness question -- we also need to have an
input on the problemless iris. Would a list of those cultivars that have
survived a minimum of three years without incident do for this?
Best regards,
Mike, who has now accumulated almost 14 hours of problem free internet
service from his 'Two guys in a garage.'
Reality check -- if they go belly-up I am back to long distance charges!
