Re: Winter is back.
- Subject: Re: Winter is back.
- From: E* G* <e*@moose.ncia.net>
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 96 09:57:37 MST
Good....that will teach you not to gloat (maybe). Take this in
good humor because I am trying not to be too jealous of all of your
weather since we have umpteen inches of snow here in Zone 3.
As I try to look ahead a few months to seeing any iris in my garden,
I have a question for the more "seasoned" irisians (anybody but me,
on this list, I think).
First of all, we are organic gardeners because that works for us and
we don't have the borers and pests (EXCEPT SLUGS who abstain from beer)
you have in the hotter regions. Last year, on two of my Japanese iris,
I discovered what I termed "bud rot". The plants grew well and budded
right on time and then never blossomed. I finally took the buds and
they had brownish, slimy coffee-ground consistency instead of ?
One of the plants had successfully opened one bud previously.
I dutifully perused Dr. McEwen's book on Japanese iris but to no
avail. If anyone can shed some light on this, I would be most
grateful. I shudder to think this could happen to all my Jaapanese
iris (even though I don't have many, I take so much time with them).
I thought I wanted them TOO much (they are Japanese) or got the buds
inadvertently wet.
Ellen Gallagher (the novice irisian)
On Wed, 6 Mar 1996 Lbaumunk@aol.com wrote:
> Since my unseemly gloating started all this "Spring is Here!" teasing, I feel
> compelled to report that this morning on the Front Range of Colorado the
> temperature is 9 degrees f. and it is snowing. ) :
>
> -Lowell Baumunk
