Re: iris malady

Vernon Johnson wrote:
> 
> Dear Fellow Iris lovers,
> I sometimes has a problem with iris that I have never seen discussed in
> the books.
> The blossom stalk will shoot up normally and just before the buds open
> the whole stalk will wither and wilt.The buds will not open and just rot
> away. >

I too have experienced this malady occasionally and although we do not 
get frosts heavy enough to damage TBs at bloom time we do get the 
occasional cold snap. In discussions with other iris folk locally we 
have concluded that the condition is most likely mechanical, caused by 
abnormal weather. In general we think of ourselves as living in a 
temperate littoral climate but the South Pole is not so very far away and 
occasionally makes its presence felt.

-- 
Paul Richardson, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
pippi@xtra.co.nz
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