RE: winter casualties
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- Subject: RE: winter casualties
- From: "* M* <I*@msn.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:07:02 -0700 (MST)
Not bad considering the timing, Tom! I can always tell which end of the new
bed was planted into October, as the loss rate of new iris climbs from around
1% for pre-Sept. ones to around 20% for the October-planted (I know--every
year I promise I'll have them all back in the ground in time, and I never
quite make it--well, that's where my room for this year's new ones will be),.
Barb, sort of outside Santa Fe, recovering enough from a bad back to plan on
some garden clean-up of my own this weekend.
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From: iris-l@rt66.com on behalf of Tom Tadfor Little
Sent: Monday, March 10, 1997 12:04 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: winter casualties
We had a gorgeous weekend in Santa Fe, so I went and cleaned up the iris
beds and checked for winter casualties. Some of you may remember that I
moved the garden from Los Alamos to Santa Fe last September, which is a
little late for this climate. I provided no winter protection, so I was
interested in seeing what kind of survival rate I got. Here's the breakdown:
lost 3 of 37 arilbreds (no arilbred medians, Ellen!)
lost 2 of 32 TBs
lost 2 of 55 medians
lost NONE of 24 pure arils and 23 MDBs.
total losses: 7 of 171 (about 4%).
Not bad at all! Although previous experience predisposes me to believe that
the TBs are especially prone to winter kill and the pure arils and dwarfs
are especially hardy, it's worth remarking that these results are
statistically consistent with the hypothesis that a completely random 4% of
the plants died during the winter. (Also, the pure arils and some of the
MDBs were planted two weeks earlier than the others.)
It's too early to say for sure about the beardless ones, but I am expecting
no lossed among them.
Happy irising, Tom.
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Tom Tadfor Little telp@Rt66.com
Iris-L list owner * USDA zone 5/6 * AIS region 23
Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA)
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