Re: Louisianas
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- Subject: Re: Louisianas
- From: D* L* <g*@rogerswave.ca>
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 04:29:16 -0700 (MST)
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Monashee Perennials wrote:
> I think that most Louisianas must be quite cold hardy. A number of years ago
> I was fascinated by those beautiful flowers & I still think they are the
> most beautiful of the larger irises. At one point I had about 50 different
> cultivars which all came through a winter with a low temperature of -32 C or
> -26 F. The problem with them was not in keeping them alive, indeed many of
> them were hard to kill. I did stop growing them because mostly they were
> very unreliable for bloom.
>
> I doubt that it wasn't warm enough for them to bloom because at that time of
> the year we are usually into the 90s every day. The difficulty is the lack
> of humidity I think. Nevertheless, there were a few, perhaps 6 or 7 which
> did bloom quite regularly. I can probably dig back into my notes and find
> the names if anyone is interested, but I won't be able to get it it for a
> few days. I do recall that Black Gamecock was one of the few which never did
> produce a blossom.
> John Montgomery monashee@bcgrizzly.com Vernon BC (zone 5)
John, How wet are your Louisiana beds. They require a lot of water
in fact the beds should be wet all the time. They also acidity like
the JI's.
--
Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca>
Zone 5 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
