Re: Culture: digging irises up
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: Culture: digging irises up
- From: L*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:52:50 -0600 (MDT)
Rusty said:
<<Actually, it's the second year, but the first BLOOMING year. AND,
all rhizomes have already bloomed. The last one being over 2 weeks
ago. So do I save the ones that bloomed to become mother rhizomes or
what?>>
I will try to explain this with pictures:
( )
( | )
|
| that's a crude rendition of a single 'nosed' mother rhizome
(with some
M constrictions), with a
( ) bloom stalk (notice this is a historic iris with droopy
falls). M is the base
( ) of the fan (see the leaf tips?). View is sort of from above
and behind. I tried to draw this from the side but AOL won't let me. (I am
starting to understand how the guy drawing the sheep felt.)
( ) Same plant later - with nice balloon pod, and two new fans
(M's)
| (or 'pups'?) starting along the sides of the mother rhizome.
| If there are no new M's, that is called bloom out. These new
fans
| may or may not bloom next year. If there aren't any new M's
right now,
MM the ( ) may eventually make some more. Rebloomers tend to make
( ) new Ms all year long. Each M only blooms once. Ever.
( )M
^
/
/
/
MM Sort of side view - that W isn't really an underground fan,
but the
====== best I could do.
W
Hope this helps.
Linda M
lmann76543@aol.com
Hasn't somebody got a decent illustration on a web site?
And a reminder to everybody - please add where you are to every post. With
so many posts coming in every day (and for a lot of us, not just on this
list), it's really hard to keep track of where everybody is gardening. And
with most posts, the answer to questions depends on climate and soils where
you are. I know it's a nuisance with AOL, but try to remember.
