CULT: rhizomes, varieties of death
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- Subject: CULT: rhizomes, varieties of death
- From: L*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 15:02:53 -0700 (MST)
Dana Brown asked:
<I have a couple of questions concerning dead iris.:-) If you plant a
<rhizome in the fall and come back in the spring what will the rhizome
<look like if:
<1. The darn thing died. Never settled in and put out roots. Just
<croaked.
<2. It was freeze killed. I realize that down here in the south we
<don't have much of a problem with that but it could happen.
<3. Rot got it. Any of various different types.
Your question made me laugh Dana - I am not sure how to tell these things
apart, but the ones that die without rotting lie there looking like shriveled
up potatos eventually. In my experience, freezing doesn't seem to kill the
whole plant, but often damages the terminal shoot enough that it rots and
takes the rhizome along with it. When we were at Phil Williams' garden last
spring, nearly everything he had reset the following year was dead (frozen)
and rotten. Phil says he doesn't have soft rot. Rot got 'em for sure
though. Hope this helps.
Linda Mann lmann76543@aol.com east Tennessee USA
hoping for more talk about iris, even dead ones
