Re: Transporting blooms
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- Subject: Re: Transporting blooms
- From: "* M* <b*@irisgarden.Com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 22:22:44 -0600 (MDT)
Dana Brown wrote:
>
> > 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".
> We use a variant of this method. Instead of newspapers we use the foam
> cylinders made to insulate water pipes for the winter. They can be used
> again and again. Stuff your bucket with these and put the iris in the
> holes. Works great.
> --
> Dana Brown, Lubbock, Texas Zone 7
> Where we are 3,241 ft above sea level, with an average rainfall of
> 17.76"
> of rain a year. Our average wind speed is 12.5 mph and we have an
> average
> of 164 days of clear weather, 96 of which dip below freezing.
See Dana, that's the power of the net. I had never heard or thought of
that method. Sounds easy and the foam cylinders can be stored for the
next year. Now maybe if I ever retire from the iris business I can
enter a show again. For those of you on the iris-l that haven't entered
an iris show, it's really a lot of fun.
Bill Maryott San Jose CA
