Re: HIST: CAT: Rebloom
- To: i*@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HIST: CAT: Rebloom
- From: h*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:15:48 EST
From: hipsource@aol.com
In a message dated 3/10/00 12:29:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
suttons@lightspeed.net writes:
<< 'To encourage this second blooming, it is advisable to plant in rich
non-acid
soil, in full sunlight.....as well as keeping the ground stirred so that the
plants will not fall into a dormant stage, but will continue to grow and
develop increase buds.'
..... It goes on to list 33 "Fall Blooming Iris". I find the rich non-acid
soil interesting. >>
Well, I think the bit about 'stirring the soil' is interesting. I assume they
mean cultivating it. Has anyone heard any anecdotal evidence to the effect
that cultivating around the rebloomers stimulates them? It might make rain
penetrate rather than run off, but otherwise...?
It all sounds like some of the hair-raising archaic English lit on fruit
trees I read once. Renaissance authors were constantly advising folks to dig
up the root zone of mature trees and pour one thing and another in there to
cajole the trees into highly unlikely performances.
Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com
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