Re: CULT: Transpiration and rot
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Transpiration and rot
- From: l*
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 02 21:18:45 -0600
>they have names if only we could determine what it was
True enough, though I wouldn't be surprised if at least a few of my
unknowns are unregistered bee pod seedlings from ages past. One of these
years I'll spend the time necessary to take all pertinent notes and pics
to submit my unknowns to Phil Edinger for ID assistance.
>I hope you do....and love those that do.
I love all irises that survive and bloom up here. I can't afford not to.
;-)
>
>Sadly, the medians are the most difficult here. They don't like our climate
>at all, I guess.
I was just discussing with another "talker" how it seems that everyone
outside of the Willamette Valley faces some set of challenges in keeping
bearded irises alive, happy, and blooming. Whoever said bearded irises
were easy???
>The ABs, though, do a good job of filling the size category and early bloom.
Speaking of ABs, can anyone even begin to explain how OYEZ could possibly
have survived AND bloomed in my garden this spring after having shown up
dessicated and rootless a month and a half after what I consider our last
"safe" planting date last year??? How could I lose just about all my TBs
and bloom OYEZ??? Unbelievable!
>the medians haven't been planted to the extent of the TBs either.
The same was true in my garden ... until this year.
> 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.
The taller ones do look better in the landscape, but the littleuns are
such a joy blooming with the daffs early in the season when northern eyes
are yearning for garden color. I just wish they bloomed over a longer
period.
Up until this year, I had no interest in adding BBs to my collection
because I didn't see the point. Since they bloom simultaneously with
TBs, they do nothing to extend the season. I figured they were just TBs
that didn't measure up. My perspective has now changed dramatically, and
I am adding many to my collection this year. I am hoping they will prove
hardier and more vigorous than the TBs, and I know they won't require all
the staking of the taller plants. I am SICK TO DEATH of staking floppy
TBs! And now that I've decided to not replace most of the modern TBs, I
need the BBs for bloom during that period.
>
>Only ten years? I figured you to be much, much younger than that, with many
>decades of temptation to acquire and grow iris.
With any luck, I'll have several more decades to enjoy my irises and
expand my collection. The ten year goal is more accurately to establish
a "core" collection of reliable, hardy, iris survivors I can count on to
provide me with more joy than heartache on a regular basis. I'm likely
to get a bit discouraged if, in ten years, I'm still experiencing the
sort of wholesale iris kill I had this spring.
As nice as they are, I refuse to believe that versicolor and pseudacorus
are the only irises tough enough to survive northern MN no matter what.
;-)
Laurie
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zone 3b northern MN - clay soil
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