Re: CULT: freezes
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: freezes
- From: P* N*
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:55:10 -0600
I have been told here that the freezes Mon.,Tues., and Wed. nights would have damaged the bloomstalks down in the bases of the iris fans and therefor
we will have poor bloom this spring. Is this because of the warm weather preceeding the freeze, the lateness of it, or what?
One result of our mild Feb. was a real blessing. Last Sunday I looked out the window and thought I saw a tall bloomstalk on Aaron's Dagger. It grows on the south side of our house next to a small greenhouse that protects it from the west. Sure enough, there were 5 stalks on it, one showing color. Monday I cut it and today it bloomed, just in time for me to take it to a dear friend's house after her husband's funeral. She thought it a perfect tribute.
Pat in Dallas
----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Mann
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:42 AM
To: iris-talk
Subject: [iris-talk] CULT: freezes (was SPEC: douglasiana)
Bill Shear in zone 7a Virginia said:
<Seems like we dodged a bullet last night--the predicted low of 15 was
not
realized; my thermometer registered 23 at 5:30
AM. ...the extreme dryness ...has kept them
from being in as full growth as might have been
the case--in which a night
like last night could have been disastrous!>
Well, ptuii... it was about 15 here last night! Another benefit of the
lack of rain is that lack of cloud cover has let night temperatures fall
below freezing fairly often, so growth is not as tender as it would be
with warmer nights. I hope....
This is too early in the season for damage to iris flower stalk
primordia, still snugly undeveloped inside the rhizomes... [she says
wishfully...]. But not too early to do damage to foliage on the foolish
irises that had already started growing. Opportunity for spring rot....
Donald & others in Oklahoma & Texas - looks like you were in the
cross-hairs of this one...
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA also zone 7 (7a or 7b, or maybe 8
depending on the year)
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