Re: Transporting blooms
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- Subject: Re: Transporting blooms
- From: "* M* <b*@irisgarden.Com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:44:09 -0600 (MDT)
SCHAFFCM@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU wrote:
>
> The following is from the Dahlia.net, but it speaks of transporting blooms
> for shows, a topic of some interest........
Carolyn, here in Northern California most of the show exhibitors have
developed a rather clever method of transporting stalks to shows. I
will share it with the iris-l in case others are not aware of it.
Take a plastic 5 gallon bucket. Wet old newspapers, lay open a stack
about 1/4 inch thick. Fold longwise to make a retangular strip about 6
inches wide and about 30 inches long. Now roll into a cylinder. Stand
this cylinder upright into the bottom of the plastic bucket. Continue
making these cylinders until the bucket is full of wet paper cylinders
standing up in the base of the bucket. Add about 2 inches of water to
the bucket and now stand the iris stems in the bucket between the
cracks in the rolled newspaper cylinders. A perfect way to transport
tall iris without damage. Hope you can understand this. It's much
easier to "show" than to "tell".
Bill Maryott San Jose CA
