Re: TB: pregnant fans!?
- Subject: Re: [iris] TB: pregnant fans!?
- From: "John Bruce" j*@cinci.rr.com
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:18:10 -0500
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
I am not sure the heat is what keeps borers from surviving in
the South and West. Oregon's climate is milder in summer AND winter
than Ohio. While it isn't quite the oven here that it is in Texas or
Mississippi, they don't jokingly refer to it as Cin-sauna-ti (Cincinnati)
for nothing. July and August here has 90+ degree days and 70 degree
dewpoints. Anyone know what it is about the climate that keeps these
little sweethearts out of the South and West?
jb
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John Bruce jbruce1@cinci.rr.com
Hidden Acres Iris Gardens
http://home.cinci.rr.com/hiddenacres
SW Ohio,USDA Zone 5b
h*@cinci.rr.com
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> In over forty years with iris, I have never seen a borer, but I did
receive a rhizome
> once that had been hollowed out by one. Guess he escaped through one of
the vent
> holes in the box when he hit the VA/NC border because the heat was
stifling in the
> UPS truck.
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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