Re: CULT: Borers

From: Jeanne Holley <irisarian@yahoo.com>

Hi Nancy,

Sorry to be so late responding to your borer message:

Message: 18
   Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 19:43:02 -0600
   From: Nancy Pocklington <npocklington@accunet.net>
Subject: CULT: Borer Comments (no pun intended)

Heard an iris grower say that he and his mother both
raised irises in
the same community but at different sites.  His mother
(like many of
us)
had a "nice" yard with shrubs, trees, and many other
perennials, and
she
always had borer problems.  His own were grown in an
open field with
nothing else around but grass, and he seldom had any
borers.  His
conclusion was that the bark of all these other  
shrubs was a favorite egg-laying host for the borer
moths, and of
course bark is not something one can rake up and burn.
 

My own yard is of his mother's type, and experience
here makes me
think his theory is right.  The worst problems are
invariably on
clumps two years old or older, and the ones nearest
the shrubs.

This makes me wonder just how far borers do travel. 
Does one ever
get them from a neighbor, or only when they are
imported on new
plant stock?    Any comments?
-- 
Nancy Pocklington  



Before we moved to the country I had a lovely 1 acre
yard with lots of trees and shrubs and for the first
time ever I had borers and I mean that with a capital
"B".  I had to use cygon constantly and I hate it.  We
moved to the country and converted part of a field to
an iris garden and since then I have never (knock
wood) had borers.  I always wondered why and I think
perhaps you have answered my question.

Jeanne Holley





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Jeanne Holley
Pocahontas MO - Zone 6
President, SEMO Iris Society
Region 18
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