Re: CULT: Insolent irises
- To: i*@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: CULT: Insolent irises
- From: L*
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:19:57 -0000
From: "Lucy " <harrisfamily@coastalnet.com>
I am new to growing iris flowers. I have learned that using rabbit
pellets to feed your rhizomes promotes root growth. The alfha meal
in the rabbit pellets and horse pellets is what iris' like. Maybe
the "insolent" plants need to grow more roots to bloom. Just and
idea that might help.
Lucy
--- In iris-talk@onelist.com, vince lewonski <vincelewonski@y...>
wrote:
> Anner coined the term "insolent" for irises that don't
> bloom, increase, or die. My Insolent Wall Of Fame:
>
> BROADWAY - took five years before it bloomed. Is now in an
> unmarked bed at work (I think), and has not bloomed in
> several years.
>
> FIDDLESTICKS - I started with three fans a couple years
> ago, and now have four fans, and have never had it bloom.
> The only thing that keeps it here is that it's a good color
> orange, and the garden in WV that it came from had a row
> several feet long - it must grow there!!!
>
> BOGOTA - My favorite orange, but I got rid of it last year
> - it would bloom every other year, one stalk, four buds.
>
> GIGOLO and DAREDEVIL - One or two little stalks every other
> year. Out!!!
>
> STREET WALKER - doesn't bloom, although it does grow. I
> would have gotten rid of it years ago, but the flower is so
> gorgeous when it does bloom...
>
> BUSY SIGNAL - Rot has about balanced increase, and it only
> bloomed the first year I had it. But it was such a pretty
> color brown and yellow (my favorite "maiden bloom" of '98),
> I'll wait...
>
> FEATURE ATTRACTION - I got this from Keith Keppel, who
> listed it as "slow to increase" in his catalog. Three years
> later, I have two fans...
>
> FIFTH DIMENSION - neat color combo, but didn't grow, and
> bud count was low for me.
>
> I realize that most of these are probably doing well
> somewhere in the world - local conditions or my brown thumb
> may be to blame. What's on YOUR list?
>
>
>
> =====
> Vince Lewonski
> vincelewonski@yahoo.com
> Secane, Pennsylvania, USA Zone 6b
>
> "Vince no function well beer without!"
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