Re: NEW TO THE GROUP
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: NEW TO THE GROUP
- From: D*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 10:07:48 -0700 (MST)
In a message dated 97-03-14 23:15:03 EST, you write:
<< HI -- I've recently joined the Iris society >>
Rima, welcome to the list! It is good to have yet another upstater on board!
Sorry I cannot recommend any water plants--no pond! Perhaps some of the cold
proven Louisiana irises would be good around the edges and into the water.
I am sure DOROTHEA K. WILLIAMSON (I can give you a piece this spring;
please remind me in another month) will do fine in Zone 4, and I believe
BLACK GAMECOCK will also grow for you. I don't have it, but members of AIS
in Harpursville, NY have been successfully growing it for some years.
>>Most of my other irises do not bloom at all altho they have great
foliage. Not enough sun is what I'm starting to learn from some of the
messages I've read. Anyone else in my area out there who can give me
some tips?<<
Not enough sun is the most likely culprit. How long has it been since
they've been divided, also? Do they still have room for new rhizome
increase, or are there small rhizomes all growing over the top of each other?
Are they competing with grass, or is the ground around them clean
cultivated? Overcrowded rhizomes from either of these factors could be a
factor in lack of bloom.
Then again, there are irises that bloom regularly--once every 3 years! I
have such a one in my garden, even though I know I should ditch it. But
because it is spectacular when it does choose to bloom, I always "wimp out"
when it comes time to decide who stays and who goes!
Again, welcome!
Dorothy Fingerhood
DFingerhoo@aol.com
(Newfield, NY Zone 4/5)
