Re: Re: TB: Unknown Historic (was Street Walker)

I forgot to add that moving iris in October in our climate should not be a problem if you keep check during the winter to be sure they don't heave out of the ground.  Normally, we pot all our rhizomes as they come in during the summer and don't have a problem with their heaving after they are put in the ground in the fall.  However, if we have to plant a rhizome then that has not been potted, we put a half brick or medium sized stone on top of the rhizome to prevent heaving.  Here in Kentucky our winters are prone to having a lot of freeze-thaw cycles and this method stops a lot of premature iris death.

Judy Hunt in Louisville 


  Christian wrote:

  <Ok, that's all fine and good, but she says she's almost sure the 
  standards are white, not orchid, and she thinks the cultivar is 
  really, really, really old, antique, neolithic. Fifty years or so....
  'mom's great-grandmother had it'  They went up to the old farmstead 
  after it was sold and recovered these irises and they have been 
  passed down ever since.  "Mom says they were there on that farm when 
  I was little," at least 45-50 years ago.  "White tops, and purple 
  bottoms, and yellow beards">

  Christian, I had a real good laugh at your characterization of this iris being so very old at fifty years.  Keep a copy of this and put it away for twenty years and you, too, will have a good laugh!  ; - )

  and:
  <Does anybody know of a way to keep/ build up these irises?>

  If you give them the same TLC as newer irises, they should thrive.  Also, if you take a picture when they are blooming, you can send it to the HIPS (Historic Iris Preservation Society) identification guru who can most likely identify it for you.

  Judy Hunt in Louisville, KY, where we are getting some much-needed rain today. 


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