Re: Re: Edith Wolford and DMs
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: Edith Wolford and DMs
- From: w*
- Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 11:09:03 -0600
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> On 2 Mar 2002 at 11:36, rainacre@aol.com wrote:
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> > Please consider the garden in which Edith Wolford and at least one
> > of her parents originated. Winters are cool and wet, not cold and
> > snowy. Spring and summer watering by flooding between rows. Complete
> > soil fertility and neutral to a little alkaline pH. Rhizomes
> > transplanted every year, not every second, third or fourth year.
> > Hot, hot summers with full sun and no rain. The extent to which a
> > given garden's climate and cultural practices are different is
> > directly proportional to chances of growing it well.
>
Bound for me to disagree, but you just described Texas and
Mississippi and their iris-growing conditions except for the
irrigation. I have gardened in both states. EW didn't do well for
me
in either state. Perhaps what you say is true in frigid areas but not
here.
I also think of all of the good growers that came from that same
garden - POEM OF ECSTASY, CHASING RAINBOWS, and so
many more, so I am
not so sure about the growing conditions you mentioned there.
Keith
Keppel also gardened in the same area for many years before he
moved
to Oregon and think of all of the good growers he released I think
it has to do with the genes or the lines. In the case of EW, it is
probably the parent that came from outside the Stockton area that
is
the problem. Stockton Iris Gardens is on the Keppel property now,
and
everything they send out grows like a weed in my garden.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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