CULT:Replanting\Strange but true
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com
- Subject: CULT:Replanting\Strange but true
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:44:48 EDT
From: StorYlade@aol.com
In a message dated 6/18/1999 4:53:55 PM Central Daylight Time,
Nmanley@meditech.com writes:
<< Others will report that you can replant
even months afterwards, but you usually have to rehydrate rhizomes in this
case. >>
Just couldn't resist passing this one on! When I sold my house and land last
summer, several people wanted some of my irises. Around the first week in
September, my oldest daughter took home a big plastic grocery bag full of her
favorites. Then she waited for her husband to prepare a bed for her irises.
Fall came and went, and she asked me what she should do with her irises.
Always helpful, I suggested that she throw them out in the yard, and I
assured her some would probably survive. She replied with, "Mom! Really!"
Finally, I suggested she put them in a dark closet.
Winter came and went. Then, spring came. Along with spring came iris bloom
and Sherri informed me that her irises still hung in a back closet.
She asked me if there was any point in planting them now, and I said, "What
the heck! What can it hurt?"
Last Sunday (June 13th) she informed me that most of her irises, finally
planted a couple of weeks earlier, are putting up new growth. Only the very
small ones were completely gone. How's that for an iris tale? Talk about
tough!
Betty in BG KY (2.23 inches below normal for the month)
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