Re: CULT: Small rhizomes
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Small rhizomes
- From: P* T*
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:02:41 +1000
At 01:50 17/07/01 -0700, you wrote:
> I ordered from Riverview last year, and the rhizomes
> were of okay size. All lived; most bloomed. It may be
> specific to the cultivars you ordered - if you could only
> find them from Riverview, it may be that these are not good
> growers, and that's why other catalogs no longer list them.
>
Howdy All,
I am in Australia and have no idea of the reputation or anything of
Riverview. However, from the various emails that I've seen it it appears
to me that the following applies to them......
* They are in a harsh climate, which always tends to make the rhizomes
smaller and hardier rather than big and luxuriant. From experience this
should not at all change the viability or health, just the size of the
rhizomes
* They vary from year to year (as any nursery would do) based on that
particularly harsh climate.
* I think they actually posted here that this year was a particularly
harsh year, so the rhizomes would have been smaller this year.
* No-one has said that they've had poor results from Riverview rhizomes,
but rathe that they grew and acclimatised well, even though sometimes small
when they arrived.
* If the varieties are now a unique offering by them (i.e they are the
only ones with certain varieties) then it is entirely possible that they
may be a smaller growing variety. I know some of the varieties I grow
range from massive to tiny (one Rhizome I received of FULL TIDE a few years
ago had 14 increases in one year) so small does not mean unhealthy.
I just wanted to summarise this based on what I (as an uninvolved part
<grin>) had observed from the emails. From what I've read it appears the
size if based on growing conditions rather than health. If I was able to
order from them (Sigh! If ONLY I was able to order from America
easily........ Mike Sutton would be sending WAY more rhizomes to Australia
<big grin>) then from the sound of these emails I'd be most happy to do so,
knowing full well that I was going to mainly get healthy rhizomes that,
although they may be small, would adapt to my climate easily and grow well.
Hope the summary may be of some help.
Cheers.
Paul Tyerman
Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8/9
p*@ozemail.com.au
Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Crocus, Cyrtanthus,
Liliums, Hellebores, Aroids, Irises plus just about anything else that
doesn't move!!!!!
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