CULT: survivors?
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  • Subject: CULT: survivors?
  • From: L* M* <l*@lock-net.com>
  • Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:36:35 -0500
Have the rest of you had more iris damage/death this winter than usual?
Two years of summer drought, weed neglect, and this seemingly never ending winter seems to have finished off quite a few (ma)lingering rhizomes here. Some seedlings, some straggler storeboughts/swaps from before I started putting all the new stuff in pots of miracle gro.
Good news is that now I don't have to decide whether or not to salvage them, plus it's more room to line out some of the better babies for more evaluation.
It's been another "warm" winter as far as really cold temperatures go - never did get below 10oF compared to most winters in the "good ol days" when it routinely dropped below zero F at least once, but it also never warmed up. I haven't heard lately, but we broke records for continuous cold by sometime in Jan, and stayed cold after that. More normal weather this week.
First bloodroot showing color today, first one has opened on March 10 here for ~the last 20 yrs or so. May be a day or two early this year. Never off by more than a day or two. Amazing. 

Linda Mann east TN USA zone 7

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