Re: CULT: Bad Bloom In Indiana
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Bad Bloom In Indiana
- From: R* R*
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 17:43:33 -0700
Hi Mary Lou
(I'm near Lakeville, IN which is the next town south from South Bend.)
Thanks for the encouragement on my Iris, It was terrible up here this year,
record lows all of May and wet as can be...
-Rich
At 19:37 6/14/2002 -0700, Mary Swann-Young wrote:
>Hi Richard, and welcome! I only post once in a while, but live in
>Indiana. I planted 6 shrivelled rhizomes from W-Mart 2 years ago. They
>all waited till this year to bloom. Last summer I planted 90 cultivars
>from 4 professional growers. This spring only 28 of the 90 bloomed, but
>this was a really terrible spring for iris throughout the midwest. Way
>too much rain, 4 nights of record hard freeze in May... it's a wonder
>anything bloomed. I fully expect all my new iris to bloom no later than
>next spring ( several are rebloomers). If yours are big healthy plants,
>they'll probably bloom nicely the next chance they get. You might want to
>lay off the nitrogen, as it encourages foliage at the expense of bloom.
>
>Whereabouts in Indiana you frum?
>
>Mary Lou, near Indianapolis Z5. Watching over pods like an old broody
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