Re: CULT: Transpiration and rot
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Transpiration and rot
- From: D* E*
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 20:39:40 -0500
Laurie,
>Of course, the toughest and most reliable TBs in my
>garden are the nameless old soldiers who bloom and increase in spite of
>neglect and competition from quack grass and all manner of other weeds
>and plant pests. They are so vigorous that they can outgrow nearly every
>assault this environment throws at them.
Too true! But they have names if only we could determine what it was, I
expect.
> That is what I hope to find in
>at least a few of the historics I will be adding to my garden this year.
I hope you do....and love those that do.
>The stars of my beardeds this year - and I suspect in all years to come -
>were the MDBs and SDBs.
Sadly, the medians are the most difficult here. They don't like our climate
at all, I guess. The few that have managed are grown in nearly full shade.
The ABs, though, do a good job of filling the size category and early bloom.
>Interestingly, the mortality rate in
>my garden this year seemed to increase proportionately to the size of the
>plants.
It's just about the opposite here. No dwarfs have survived more than two
seasons, the rest work their way up to the TBs that really have managed the
best. To be absolutely fair, though, the medians haven't been planted to
the extent of the TBs either. Partly because the ones I've tried have been
so unhappy, and partly because the taller ones simply look better in the
expanse I have to plant them in.
Only ten years? I figured you to be much, much younger than that, with many
decades of temptation to acquire and grow iris.
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA
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