Re: TB: pregnant fans!?
- Subject: Re: [iris] TB: pregnant fans!?
- From: "Mike Greenfield" r*@infinet.com
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:36:15 -0500
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
See where you sent this Duh!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Bruce" <jbruce1@cinci.rr.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [iris] TB: pregnant fans!?
> 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
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 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
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 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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