Re: CULT: Transpiration and rot
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Transpiration and rot
- From: C* D*
- Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 19:37:30 -0400
laurief wrote:.
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.
Laurie,
It seems to me that your successes will depend on how you manage to keep
your deer out. Excuse my ignorance here, but would some sort of scare
crow do the trick ? Moth balls ? A couple hundred feet of 6 foot snow
fence ? What about a commercial deer repellent ? Does this exist ?
What about actually feeding the deer ? Do they eat hay ?
Maybe you could plant some very inexpensive spring flowering bulbs that
you don't care much about to distract them from the iris fans. You
could plant a bunch of tulips for them to eat, this could buy your
irises invaluable growing time before they fall prey to rot.
These are just suggestions in hopes that you'll have a better bloom
season next year.
Chris 4b
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