Re: CULT: Potting summer arrivals
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Potting summer arrivals
- From: R* T* D* <r*@sierratel.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 23:31:28 -0600 (MDT)
Walter A. Moores wrote:
>
> There is no way a newly-set iris can survive
> the heat of a Texas summer.
>
> Even here in MS, I would never subject a new plant to the rigors
> of a MS sun.
For the benefit of iris novice on the list, I hope to give a different
view of planting iris in the summer. Here in the interior valley of
California the summers regularly exceed 100 degrees. I have always, the
last 7 years anyway, prepared beds in June for transplanting seedlings
and new iris arrivals. Starting in June and continuing all summer I
begin the planting. The beds stay damp all summer. True! I rarely
loose any iris planted this way. They put on tremendous growth during
the summer and are firmly established going into our winter. They
usually bloom 2 weeks earlier than the stock transplanted in September
and are loaded with increases.
I would like to know if there are any other variables in New Mexico,
Texas, and Mississipi that would preclude planting in the summer because
those locations could'nt be any hotter than here.
Rick Tasco
Superstition Iris Gardens
Central California
Zone 8
